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haikus for november 12
time of death is yours until until you are luminous on your own you stand your time running out november year nowhere near sheer curtains bellowing in the morning no it's evening now that when has gone where will we meet breath stirring on the pond bougainvillea your days uncertain uprooted replanted will you make it through monsoon you come with your number from a name we emerge here to meet you are right to think november 12 nothing happens to you tu donnes nom à ce jour ce
hamid ebadi
2 days ago1 min read


impauvrement
amed, bali, october 2026 sparseness you want verses to be vast evening skies afterglows hiding their embers trees you feel better shed their leaves do not songs belong to barrenness we scattered words swept from the page drifting in its margin our night is long we keep watch here over the one word closer of the circle you do not see
hamid ebadi
3 days ago1 min read


az safar bégou
rendez-vous peut-être à la prochaine migration the letter's last words stun heart swift itinerant rapid wingbeats your flight towhereto 10 november 2026
hamid ebadi
5 days ago1 min read


matinal
song torrents breaking through walls what morning is swallows not your question what time is it what time is is you reaped moons round us monsoon here sleeps retreat these songs carry us along wherever they go there we go dwelling with their far in their near this endlessing what morning is kedungu, bali, 8 november 2026
hamid ebadi
Nov 81 min read


oceanic
praia de cabanas velhas, algarve, october 2026 troubled age what to tell you seek no more depth just don't despair your grief as is so profound our one song-sheet momenteariness retreat into your shell and sea retreats with you all her pearls her meadows this sprawling bed where we rehearse and rehearse crashing waves radiant rocks 6 november 2026
hamid ebadi
Nov 61 min read


ria formosa
seagrass meadows in shallows swaying tongue's intertidal the words and names you forgot along the way now return in abundance of a dream seahorse spider crab bladder wrack alface-do-mar moon jelly what disappeared brings in its wake the unuttered what could only stutter weaves its way in waters green speaks with shimmers on eelgrass as they pull their light in 31 october 2026
hamid ebadi
Nov 51 min read


toussaint
wasn't it to be onwards what began as the beginningless be safe onwards with your journey unto death no one's journey onwards unto death that counts backwards with stations in between the whats the wheres where breath halts vacillates time to count pauses counts mountain ranges glimpses sea trenches backwards and forwards be safe onwards your journey unto death wohinher whereverwhere notherewhere où allons nous vers the moment 1 novmeber 2026
hamid ebadi
Nov 31 min read


wherever name takes you
igreja de santa maria, logos mostly late at night narrow cobbled streets lagos gulls crying out tear-dried seas amsterdam fécamp nice leur veille de lampadaires wrap us in elsewhere their long calls what came to pass is the now passing by colorless blind sky our appearance turned over pages on seeking name where to find words for tongue to say not a function of mine understanding infante henrique v centenário a tua morte still good tides of unforsakable far in your gaze coll
hamid ebadi
Oct 301 min read


moon fasting
budens, algarve, 2026 chairs emptied guests emptied they borrow the shapes of shadows absent guests where we are is where they have gone wind our becoming full moon veil spread over the long table times of fasting feasting suddenness of sea budens, algarve, 27 ocotber 2026
hamid ebadi
Oct 291 min read


in a small pond
centro karuna, monchique, 20026 bathing sunlight in moonlight roots in slime flower in wind arrivals gone returning freed scooping words book of water-lilies 24 october 2026 last day of silent retreat
hamid ebadi
Oct 241 min read


aurora
serra de monchique, october 2026 in memoriam marielle magnani wherever it goes you go with it that last exhale wherever it goes there you go go with the we all go with the it's breathtaking this moment sunrise within white walls bedsheets turn into darkening blue swept away by tides your eyes my words accompany you passages of sound scatter in bewildering silence mais tu sais la mer est blue foncée un voilier blanc est en train de passer un jappement de joie me parcourt en re
hamid ebadi
Oct 231 min read


dépouillement des feuilles
l'heure est au dépouillement des feuilles time of shedding leaves can you feel sunlight touching your skin faint hint of breeze in the cool of an autumn morning in these mountains that don't mind the name they receive not begrudging echoes to passers by serra de monchique we who in turn are named and name not knowing what naming is who the nameless is not knowing the name we give is the name we
hamid ebadi
Oct 222 min read


as waves goes out
fragmen XX shingles tumble in the backwash le fragment n'est rien rien étant sa mesure que ne contient-il pas nuits des mots lit des morts mots de leur nuit leurs lits de mots leaf scuttling on the terrasse rushes through light and shade brief how brief left unuttered as it flies over the edge Einzelblatt wohinher Passage wie viele Bäume auf der Schwelle des Meeres hast du geschrieben Wind geschrien the leap music where things gather scattered is the gathering of what needs n
hamid ebadi
Oct 181 min read


let her speak of
fragmen XVIII heart's desire to speak her wistful wishing words inaudible listening opens us to the 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 draps d'azur na be yād miāyad na az yād mirāvad na miāyad na mirāvad fozoun bish majou in
hamid ebadi
Oct 131 min read


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
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