“Hainka” collection "The moons in a long night" in Arabic by Mohammad H Raisha

Mohammad H Raisha published his maiden “Hainka” collection "The moons in a long night" in Arabic in 2024 by Dar Jabra for Publication and Distribution.

"Dar Jabra for Publication and Distribution" announces the release of a new poetry work

in the new hainka poetry art entitled "The moons in a long night" by the poet Mohamed Helmy Al-Risha.We are pleased to announce the release of "Dar Jabra for Publishing and Distribution" a collection of poetry by the Palestinian poet Dr. Mohammed HelmyFeather in which the poet is the first Arab poet to practice this poetry experiment after the Indian poet (Pravat Kumar Padhy), who created this type of poetry.

The poet Mohamed Helmy Al-Risha has a rich poetry experience, he has many poetic versions, a number of critical studies have been written about his poetry, and he is a researcher and translator who has translated many poems from or into Arabic.

We congratulate Dr. Mohamed Helmy Feather on the new edition, and we hope that he will continue giving, and we congratulate all those who are interested in the poetry of reading.

The book is medium sections of 156 pages.

Indian poet Pravat Kumar Padhy created a poetry called 'Hainka'. Hainka, which is a poetic fusion between haiku and tanka, and features the image that connects the haiku piece as a central line 'kakekatoba', with the next tanka.

He had this idea in 2016. But later, in July 2020, he published an article that explains it with some examples of the Hainka. Hainka is proposed as an individual, independent literary genre of its own, unlike the continuous communicative form that appears in the Renga.

Instead of just associating haiku with tanka in the typical term, the composition in hainka relies on the linking of images ("piece" of haiku that acts as a "pointer line" for the next tanka) to discover human nature, love and emotion in a broader sense than by placing aggregate images side by side.

For comfort, the piece and the hub line is pointed with a slanted line.

Generally, the Hainka poem, in order to describe, needs to convey a broader view of the holding of the images while considering the aspect of "connection and transformation" within the framework of the integrated poem.

 

The face of the East is a tainted color

The wonder of the sunset in Katran-

The absent crows make my night darker.

Your white is a planet in my orbit alone

Have mercy on me in the morning and in the evening

Give me a blue mind of my soul in front of me

My tongue is full of grass:

The absent crows make my night darker.

 

 empty platform

a lone passenger reads

Shakespeare’s Sonnet 29

 

*****

Schrödinger's cat

mouse replaced by its predator

with a quantum computer

 

*****

bird counting--

a sudden drop in

happiness index

 

*****

the other nature

I recall lines

of Karai Senryū

 

*****

Never Let Me Go

he tilts the soil upside down

for another crop

 

Haiku Page, Issue 12, 2026 (Ed. John Zhieng)

* Kazuo Ishiguro got the Nobel Prize for his novel “Never Let Me Go” that centers around the grappling tension of the carer for organ donors and the clones raised for organ harvesting.

 

Haiku Page, Issue 12, 2026 (Ed. John Zhieng)

 

Comment:

starry night-

a desire aged

with me

-- By Carmela Marino

The haiku with seven words is indeed a minimalistic expression in its poetic spirit. It manifests a sort of synesthetic element or influence on abstraction. The tonal and rhythmic styles create a subtle resonance. The kinesthetic image, “starry night,’ a situation or sight, reveals a metaphoric expression of a psychological phenomenon and a cognitive impression. The kireji, en dash) portrays a thought pause, as defined by Faubion Bowers, and the phrase section elucidates a sudden shift. The poet does not specify the nature of the desire; it could represent an incident from the past, a long-term memory, a lost moment in life, or an expectation fervently longing for fulfillment. Precisely so, the poet chooses the indefinite article ‘a desire’ in line two.The phrase block, “a desire aged/ with me” reveals a sublime concept of abstraction. In this haiku, the poet subconsciously juxtaposes the present with past events in a subtle tone. The emotionally blended abstract fraction has been well juxtaposed with the concrete image. Apparently, it reminds me of the haiku “The water lying/ in a withered lotus . . ./ if repentance has a colour” by Kagiwada Yuko. Interestingly, the haiku embodies a cognitive poetic approach, with a close similarity to Jim Kacian’s memorable monoku “pain fading the days back to wilderness,” embedded in human-centric psychology. The phrase section represents a humble acceptance of reconciliation along with self-realization and tranquility. The emotional instant and philosophical tone set in a sense of yūgen in the transcendental realm of the flow of time.

The haiku, in its brevity, holds immense potential for meaningful expansion from the setting of ‘starry night-’ into ‘a desire aged’ with time and thus exhibits a sort of four-dimensional haiku.

In Hegelian terms, the flow of the haiku is essentially simple with fragmentary language but implies sensitivity of both the real and the abstract.  Bashō once said, 'the taste of haikai is sabi' and the present haiku justifies it with soul and spirit.

 

-Pravat Kumar Padhy 

 

how simple

cherry blossoms become

smiles for all

 

کتنی آسانی سے

سب کے لیے مسکراہٹ بن جاتے ہیں

چیری کے پھول

 

桜花みんなたやすく笑顔にし

 

Pravat Kumar Padhy

Bhubaneswar, India

 

1^st International Haiku Anthology 2026 (Ed. Hifsa Ashraf)