English Original
melted glacier
the first and the last dip
into its own water
Haiku Foundation Dialogue, "reVirals 457," June 28, 2024
Yasir Farooq
Chinese Translation (Traditional)
融化的冰川
第一次也是最後一次
滑入它自己的水中
Chinese Translation (Simplified)
融化的冰川
第一次也是最后一次
滑入它自己的水中
Bio Sketch
The journey of Yasir Farooq's English Haiku resumed in 2020. Several journals like Frogpond, The Bloo Outlier, Cold Moon Journal, The Asahi Haikuist Network, Pan Haiku Review, Chrysanthemum, Failed Haiku have published his works. He was nominated for Pushcart Prize by the Cold Moon Journal in 2021.
Farooq's haiku effectively builds, line by line, to a thematically significant and visually and emotionally poignant ending that shows an environmental emergency: "Half of world’s glaciers to ‘disappear’ with 1.5C of global warming" (CarbonBrief, "Glaciers, 5 January 2023, https://www.carbonbrief.org/half-of-worlds-glaciers-to-disappear-with-1-5c-of-global-warming/)
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"The Nation," Nov.27, 2024: The “Worst COP” Concludes With a “Heartbreaking” Climate-Finance Deal
Activists say the climate agreement effectively signed away the 1.5-degree Celsius target—”our only real chance to safeguard humanity’s future,” accessed at https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/cop29-baku-climate-final-deal/?custno=&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Weekly%2011.29.2024&utm_term=weekly
My haiku below could be read as a sequel to/one of environmental consequences of Yasir's:
beams of sunlight
a polar bear and her cub
drift on an ice-floe
Cattails, April 2023
I am thankful to you for your commentary that surrounds the world environmental issue. Let's hope for the polar life of the bear and her cub.
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