Golan Haji

أعشاش فارغة

Poems

• 1 هِلال | Translations: deenfr
• 2 شجرةٌ لا أعرف اسمها | Translations: deen
• 3 نهاية الأيام | Translations: deen
• 4 (فقّاعة) | Translations: en
• 5 بيت آخر | Translations: enfr
• 6 قَبْليْ | Translations: enfr
• 7 ضوء آذار | Translations: enfr
• 8 *** [العصفورُ الذي رفرفَ عن سلكِ] | Translations: en
• 9 أعشاش فارغة | Translations: en
• 10 الابن الثامن | Translations: enfr
• 11 (وأنتَ تغادرُ غرفةً مشمسة ناداك صوتٌ "ابقَ") | Translations: en
• 12 المسيح العجوز | Translations: en
• 13 (بئر في مقبرة بعيدة) | Translations: en
• 14 (المتلصّص) | Translations: enfr
• 15 يقظات الرابعة فجراً

Language: arabic

Translations: english (Empty Nests)

أعشاش فارغة

الضبابُ بخارُ كلمةٍ نُطقتْ ولم نسمعها.
الحائرات رأين هلالاً أرقَّ من خيطِ العنكبوت
مزّقه الصيادون.
آذانهنّ علاماتُ استفهام
سقطت أقراطُها في الوحل
برّاقةً كعينِ ببغاء
لم يُلقَّنْ إلا كلمةً وحيدة:
وداعاً.

Translations:

Language: english

Empty Nests

Fog is the vapour of a word uttered but never heard.
Perplexed women saw a crescent thinner than a spider's thread
torn apart by fishermen.
Their ears were question marks
whose earrings had fallen in the mud –
shiny as the eye of a parrot
which has come to learn just the single word :
Farewell.

Golan Haji

photo © Marti-Albesa

* 10.11.1977, Amouda, Syria
lives in: Paris, France

Golan Haji is a Syrian-Kurdish poet, essayist and translator with a postgraduate degree in pathology. He was born in 1977 in Amouda, a Kurdish town in the northeast of Syria. He studied medicine at the University of Damascus.

He now lives in Saint-Denis, a suburb of Paris. He has published four books of poems in Arabic: He Called Out Within The Darknesses (2004), Someone Sees You as a Monster (2008), Autumn, Here, is Magical and Vast (2013), Scale of Injury (2016). His translations from English and French include (among others) books by Mark Strand, Robert Louis Stevenson and Alberto Manguel. He also published Until The War, 2016, a book of prose based on interviews with Syrian women.

photo © Marti-Albesa

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