Bio: Born and raised in Beirut to Armenian parents, Z. T. Balian, a French national, is multilingual. After a long career as a lecturer at a number of Middle Eastern universities, including the American University of Beirut, during which she published several English textbooks, she now devotes her time to writing. She published her debut novel, Three Kisses of the Cobra, in 2016. Her second novel, Fallen Pine Cones, is due for release this year. She regularly contributes haiku poems in Armenian to Hayerenblog.com. Her poetry in English was recently published in Hope: An Anthology of Poetry.
HAIKU POEMS
then or now
yesterday
or today
ephemeral,
fugacious
bodiless
head, headless body
the sum of
virtual
reality
the overgrown tree – crows hiding
nests in its tenebrous heart
oblivious of spilled blood
tenacious mortal
vainly but boldly seeking
the sublime
storms, shipwrecks
the odyssey
a poem of haiku. the terseness makes the language ripen!
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