HUSSEIN HABASCH

HUSSEIN HABASCH

A Rose To The Heart Of Life

Our madness to draw

Our madness to write

Our madness to give every day,

A rose to the heart of life

Our madness won’t win my love!

Their madness to fight

Their madness to kill

Their madness to aim every day

A bullet to the heart of life

Their madness will win my love!

We will be defeated my love

I know that.

They will conquer my love

You know that.

But regardless we will draw,

write and give every day

A rose to the heart of life.

TRANSLATED BY MUNA ZINATI

The Lazy Pupil

They told him

Draw the school

He drew an amusement park.

Draw the teacher

He drew a rose.

Draw the lake

He drew a swan.

Draw Autumn

He drew a green bud.

Draw the sky

He drew his father.

Draw the earth

He drew his mother.

All the time

The lazy pupil

Was drawing his heart.

TRANSLATED BY MUNA ZINATI

In Bonn By The Rhine!

in Bonn

The Rhine talks to the ships

The ships talk to the Rhine

And I talk to both of them, about you.

In Bonn

The hours pass

The days pass

The months pass

The years pass

And I always pass toward you.

In Bonn

The trees sway on the Rhine

The clouds rain over the Rhine

Cafes crowded by the Rhine

And I sway with the trees

Waiting for the rain

Sit in Cafes,

And thinking of you.

In Bonn

The life passes

The heart exhausts

The soul ages

And you always remain,

The life’s wave

Medicine for the heart

Elixir for the soul

The Rhine passes

And I always stay, waiting for you.

In Bonn

The lovers walk by the Rhine

The old people hit the ground with their canes

And the lovely mother fly the kites with their children

And I am  looking at the lovers

Mimicking the old people’s funny movements

Flirting with the lovely mothers

And waiting for you to come.

On Bonn

The singers try out their throats by the Rhine

The musicians play their violins

The dancers sway with the music

The dogs wag its tails

And all the time I am humming your name.

In Bonn

By the Rhine

Always waiting for you

Always, always thinking of you.

TRANSLATED BY MUNA ZINATI

HUSSEIN HABASCH

HUSSEIN HABASCH: He is a poet from AFRIN/ KURDISTAN, lives in Bonn-Germany. Born in 1970. He writes in Kurdish and Arabic. Some of his poems were translated to many languages such as; English, German, Spanish, French, Chinese, Turkish, Persian, Albanian, Uzbek, Russian, Italian, Bulgarian, Lithuanian, Hungarian, Macedonian, Serbian and Romanian. A selection of his poems have been published in more than an international poetic anthology. He wrote these books: Drowning in Roses/ Azmina Publishing House, Amman, and Alwah Publishing House, Madrid 2002. Fugitives across Evros River/ Sanabel Publishing House, Cairo 2004. Higher than Desire and more Delicious than the Gazelle's Flank/ Alwah Publishing House, Madrid 2007. Delusions to Salim Barakat/ Alzaman Publishing House, Damascus 2009. A flying Angel (Texts about Syrian children) Moment Publishing House, London 2013. A flying Angel (Texts about Syrian children) in English, Bogdani Publishing House 2015. No pasarán, in Spanish, the book published by the International Poetry Festival in Puerto Rico 2016. Copaci Cu Chef, in Romanian/ Ars Longa Publishing House, Bucharest 2017. Dos Árboles, in Spanish, the book published by the International Poetry Festival in El Salvador 2017. Tiempos de Guerra, in Spanish, the book published by the International Poetry Festival in Costa Rica 2017. Fever of Quince, in Kurdish/ Sersera Publishing House, Berlin 2019. Peace for Afrin, peace for Kurdistan, An international poetry anthology in English and Spanish/ Sersera Publishing House, Berlin 2019. The red Snow, in Chinese, published in Taiwan 2019. Participated Festivals: He participated in many international festivals of poetry, for example: Medellin in Colombia, Granada in Nicaragua, France, Puerto Rico, Mexico city, Germany, Romania, Lithuania, Morocco, Ecuador, El Salvador, Kosovo, Struga in Macedonia, Costa Rica, Slovenia, Chengdu in China, Taiwan, New York city.