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let her speak
fragmen XVIII heart's desire to speak wist wishful words inaudible what opens us to listening inaudible late in the quiet light you misspell your way through dreams again wer träumt mir nach dir welches Gedächtnis taucht in meinem Atem auf was zittert in den Händen die Schlaflosigkeit der Vögel les lointains reviennent reviennent sans crier gare se meuvent sans heurt sur d'amples feuilles d'azur na be yād miāyad na az yād mirāvad na miāyad na mirāvad fozoun bish majou in nas
hamid ebadi
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scribbled on sheets of rain
fragmen XIV seeking ceases on its own forgetting the seeker were there ever one you the ever were you one on its own longing ceases who are you bereft by longing were you ever one the no longer looked at past horizons dim-sighted now to stop the past from looking back its traceless travels this unmoored old boat bercé par le clapotement des eaux how what do you see un temps d'oubli quel temps est-ce à qui ce temps aller revenir faute de mieux notre traversée de faute de mieux
hamid ebadi
Oct 51 min read


chemin faisant
' the old mirror', monchique fragmen XIII chemin faisant que ferons-nous de vos souvenirs nous les oubliés du pont mirabeau was der Spiegel dir gesagt hat damals jetzt ist Nichtverständnis Schweigen singen frei wir na mirāvad na mi istad ne mibinad vajehāsh bārān o bād āyehneāsh āsmāni ke bar mā mitābad mirror qui n'oublie rien fait de nous un fleuve oublié chemin faisant constellés de lueurs de sa nuit broken sleep aside who is the forgotten of mirrors who does not ask the
hamid ebadi
Oct 31 min read


Briefe von Vergessenheit
fragmen XII what is lost may still return through a by way Wansee's buried sharp sweet taste gooseberries hanging from the garden's boundary hedge thorns blood stained remember the thorns chemin faisant ne plus rien attendre de l'inattendu Sprachlosigkeit ein bisschen befremdet kōan of our lives how can we still hear you and you can you still hear us écrire était notre tâche nous voilà effacés un chant se lance sans souci d'absence de traces many a time we faced dead ends not
hamid ebadi
Sep 291 min read


songless
unborn's childhood house hometown homeland mother tongues mother tongued texthausted stranger's words placed in your bundle take the way will be long share with those you meet tushéyé rāhé nā kojā bā hamegān miravi from sands sprout nameless buds refugia earth plants in us sorrow's seeds voices voices songbirds' heart
hamid ebadi
Sep 251 min read


smoke rising over wetland
here a compass error breaks through error one step at a time roads learn how to breathe through you time for travelers to meet here alongside ages in whereabouts of the wind to ke az bād miāyi bi chehreye yād dust of visions glare mirage what desert can offer this wayward thirsting remember même si l'oubli est l'air qui se glisse entre tes toi oui tais-toi just clearly remember astraying stars are staring at us 20 septmbere 2026
hamid ebadi
Sep 201 min read


et je ne prie aucunement
telle est la fin de mon oeuvre / margarete porete no one gets to decide who enters the poem's gate what a poem is keeps coming back it's the at that time you forget come sound of water brings you back brings what back what our question's light sound of water never leaves you dream as it flows dreamt dreaming it never leaves you it's the way for now it has a name what what never leaves you prie prie l'impossible prier 19 september 2026
hamid ebadi
Sep 191 min read


in darkness it is most bright
hongzhi zhengjue - song of silent illumination dans ma main seulement la cendre des tendresses ou le sel de l'amour - main d'oeuvre / pierre reverdy since ancient times this loneliness of hope we attend to you save you how from dispair bebārid fardāhāye bi makāni heavy rainfalls where tomorrow i know not what tomorrow will bring take refuge its shimmers on cloud lit waters are traces we follow nomads for all our moving dunes the unattainable way places its fortune in us what
hamid ebadi
Sep 171 min read


with eyes of grief we see
pantai pulau merah, java timur, 2025 but down in the depths there is a jewel - dogen, eihei koruku, vol.9, hōgo 13 depths of earth depths of water in whereleswhere this jewel a book of bleached shores dweller of broken shells its words wild algae sweeping sea beds bu ke ze gheybi ruzi yābam dorr-e maknun ra may i one day from the unseen find that hidden pearl from stuttering pearl may oblivion return brightness darkness to limpid azure de seuil en seuil tu nous déplaces deui
hamid ebadi
Sep 161 min read


gātha closes in on us
kedungu, bali, august 2026 so should you view this fleeting world -diamond sutra - this floating world looks looks in the pond wonders to what to what shall i compare you a scattering of colors bougainvillea bracts caught in ripples of light breeze unpetalled
hamid ebadi
Sep 141 min read


how things are named
kedungu, bali, august 2026 late night sleep dripping away to be quit of writing continue writing such verses as who writes who who frees who you inexhaustible who words thin chirping of insects scattered barking around the village temple aircon droning on nothing holds them back they learned to look past your mirrors words it's morning can't say days follow unfollowing is flow why a sage once said the sound of the valley never dies
hamid ebadi
Sep 131 min read


mu
does a dog have buddha nature no mind circles around the kōan the dog takes a book from the shelf rips it apart you are battered and bruised now david chadwick's dedica intact on the verso from me to you your hand still trembles in the graph on the half title page these words zen is right now
hamid ebadi
Sep 101 min read


joglo goodbye
' all the rafters are broken, the ridgepole destroyed; the mind, gone to the unconstructed' - buddha, the dhammapada, verses 153-154 what first comes to mind seeing molts flake down from high rafters onto the bed cover gecko must be busy munching roach flesh spitting out the shell despite years living under the same roof we barely know you true adept of not picking and choosing you devour your guest whole flash of an encounter no time for guest and host to converse no-mind at
hamid ebadi
Sep 91 min read


sutra in passage
kenninji temple, kyoto, july 2026 sutra chapters heard in the wind mostly known by heart forgotten parts are what wind invents on the go late into night pine needles transcribe on unlit beds of sand words still in echo mind abides nowhere gone we are what the wind may still remember
hamid ebadi
Sep 61 min read


tapanahoni
à olivier devèze gradually she felt her lips moving imagine her lips moving poems find their way back through the many not lost forgotten years shut in a shoe box we can not see whitewaters as such still we can hear rapids imagine fury rapids slapping the bark as it runs amid the rocks at diitabiki hear granman of granboli pass on words to us strangers switi kon not welcome sweet coming imagine can't stop the stream sweet coming switi kon
hamid ebadi
Sep 21 min read


anis étoilé
afloat in hot water you a broken star and your kin marred beyond recognition still you count in the counts of the broken with us all brokenness our gateway to fragrancy swimming in still waters glints of ceiling light glittering on your arms you are a star inside a star constelling our night je suis de race inférieure de toute éternité drop limiting views you are a no one a nothing self is the world quietly brewing in a cup
hamid ebadi
Aug 311 min read


une saison de flammes
jadis si je me souviens bien sitting in a circle watching a bonfire where is the gaze going turned outward returning inward inward to better see outward to illumine the effacer of traces gaze blazes on as fire burns the divide sparks fall into the sky vanishing drop back into the heart remembrance's heartbeat we are on time for the full moon of ashes tonight on time for the morning of embers she can speak now with her soft glow i can hold you within me keep you though i canno
hamid ebadi
Aug 291 min read


les aventures de h
bornes parties en voyage are you a hermit homeless perhaps a vowel a consonant who are you letter awaiting a reader shibboleth pronounced here unpronounced there rappelles-toi bien de ceci tu es devenu désormais muet stranger is what mispronounce means h bless us in you hunger lifts up hunger home is rummaging of leafage you this hand that opens
hamid ebadi
Aug 281 min read


sepideh
payangan, august 2026 beginning may well be our only map moving forwards backwards our map of relief on the coffee table a diary a humble thing 26 inscribed on its cover it knows something is missing what it doesn't know is what we don't know millennia have forgotten missing has forgotten has the unforgivable rising sun chorus of waking birds not to mention pigs' squealing it's feeding time it's the time of measures where are you untraced what flies with these pages
hamid ebadi
Aug 281 min read


aube sans lendemain
when name appears you appear you disappear and who appears not who as in there is a shadow i feel it weigh on me who as dawn is the time of elsewhere disappears drifting eastward of sleep she unpacks our dream bundles what are we seeing here shimmering skies and waters fish swirling in the pond someone is sweeping the lawn dew forgetting dew you becoming you who
hamid ebadi
Aug 271 min read
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