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Book of the Week: Harvest Moon

mcdonaldJohn McDonald has long been a champion of Scots haiku, but Harvest Moon (shamlo.pub, 2007) is a much stranger offering than that — bilingual, to be sure, but English and . . . Farsi! McDonald’s themes remain much the same, however, rooted as they are in the natural world and its powerful effects on its human inhabitants.

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march wind
bending
the old man

in such
a dangerous world
sparrow’s thin legs

sleepless night —
throwing stones
into the darkness

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  4. I enjoyed scrolling though this. The symbols of Farsi made each word new to me. Thanks.

  5. Great to read this here, John, and it’s beautiful work. Good on’ya! 🙂

    all day
    the one butterfly
    filling the garden

    aye,

    Lorin

  8. Great to see more haiku into Farsi!
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    Here’s one by me:
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    dandelion wind
    mending bridges
    in the mist

    Alan Summers
    Publications credits: Blithe Spirit (Vol 22 No. 3 2012)
    Collection: Does Fish-God Know (YTBN Press 2012)

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    My dandelion wind haiku translations into Farsi by Reza Aerabi and Massih Talebian:
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    باد پر قاصدک
مرمت کردن پل
در غبار
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    bade por ghasdak
    maremat kardan pol 
    dar ghobar
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    Farsi translation by Reza Aerabi

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    باد بر قاصدک
    پُل تعمیر می کنند
    در مِهی شرجی
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    باد پُر از قاصدک
    پُل تعمیر می کنند
    در مِهی شرجی

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    Farsi translation by Massih Talebian
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