Dina’s haiku: "the affair" series

"the affair" series

© 2008 Dina Zaman

"we are each other"

i am hidden

so is he

the life of mistressing

"love IX"

you go in with your eyes open
but hold your heart
you must

"waiting"

how long more he asked
i am addicted to you
up to you, i said

"breaking up XXX"

i dreamed of your son
and he said
please give back my daddy

no, you said. no.
it's you and me and him.

"and back to love"

it took him three months
to hold my hand
for that, i love him

“the final poem”

just because it's goodbye
it does not mean
i do not love
you


Listen to all the haiku:


Creative process: Dina Zaman: “Many of these haiku popped out of my head and wouldn’t leave me alone. I call this new series of haiku "the affair".

Apart from trying to be spiritual this month and bettering herself for the afterlife, Dina Zaman writes a regular column in the Star paper in Malaysia.

Four haiku by Dina Zaman

Four haiku by Dina Zaman

inspired by Nadia's haiku

© 2008 Dina Zaman

"afterthought"

i am remembered
when you are with another woman
and you regret

"a man"

you love cars, watches, women
and you love
me

"lightness"

i see you heave with sadness
when i leave you
so you go back to your life

"love"

and we love and fight
and know
this is one of the greatest loves
we will ever have

Listen to all four haiku here:



Creative process: Once upon a time, before that book happened and everything else, Dina Zaman wrote fiction and poetry. Her exercise in haiku was to remember a forgotten self and was inspired by a friend's vignettes about her life as a mother, wife and daughter. Dina says: “er, I just pakai tembak. They kept buzzing in my head. That's first draft, you know; can be better.”

Note:
“that book” : I am Muslim, published by Silverfish Books. Read the review.
pakai tembak : randomly shoot


Apart from trying to be spiritual this month and bettering herself for the afterlife, Dina Zaman writes a regular column in the Star paper in Malaysia.