{"id":3867,"date":"2015-06-30T00:00:43","date_gmt":"2015-06-30T07:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeandlegends.com\/?p=3867"},"modified":"2021-06-01T10:56:04","modified_gmt":"2021-06-01T17:56:04","slug":"hedy-habra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lifeandlegends.com\/hedy-habra\/","title":{"rendered":"Hedy Habra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/lifeandlegends.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/hedy-habra-headshot-11-copy-e1435706672636.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-3868\" src=\"http:\/\/lifeandlegends.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/hedy-habra-headshot-11-copy-e1435706672636-759x1024.jpg\" alt=\"hedy habra headshot 11 copy\" width=\"400\" height=\"539\" srcset=\"http:\/\/lifeandlegends.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/hedy-habra-headshot-11-copy-e1435706672636-759x1024.jpg 759w, http:\/\/lifeandlegends.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/hedy-habra-headshot-11-copy-e1435706672636-222x300.jpg 222w, http:\/\/lifeandlegends.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/hedy-habra-headshot-11-copy-e1435706672636-111x150.jpg 111w, http:\/\/lifeandlegends.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/hedy-habra-headshot-11-copy-e1435706672636.jpg 897w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>BIO<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hedy Habra<\/strong> was born in Heliopolis, Egypt and is of Lebanese origin. She is the author of two poetry collections;\u00a0<em>Tea in Heliopolis <\/em>(Press 53, 2013), winner of the 2014 USA Best Book Award and finalist for the International Poetry Book Award and\u00a0<em>Under Brushstrokes<\/em> (Press 53, 2015). She also authored a\u00a0story collection,\u00a0<em>Flying Carpets <\/em>(Interlink, 2013),which earned Honorable Mention\u00a0in the 2013 Arab American National Book Award and was a finalist for both the 2014 USA Best Book Award and Eric Hoffer Book Award. In addition, she has published a book of literary criticism,<em>\u00a0Mundos alternos y art\u00edsticos en Vargas Llosa <\/em>(Iberoamericana, 2012)<em>.<\/em> She is a recipient of the Nazim Hikmet Poetry Award, and her multilingual work has appeared in more than fifty journals and sixteen anthologies. These include<em>\u00a0Connotation Press<\/em>, <em>Poetic Diversity<\/em>, <em>Cutthroat<\/em>, <em>Verse Daily<\/em>, <em>Blue Fifth Review, Nimrod<\/em>, <em>New York Quarterly<\/em>, <em>Levure Litt\u00e9raire<\/em>, <em>Drunken Boat, Diode, The Bitter Oleander, Cider Press Review <\/em>and <em>Poet Lore<\/em>. She\u00a0has a passion for painting and teaches Spanish at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo. \u00a0She can\u00a0be found online at\u00a0<a title=\"Hedy Habra\" href=\"http:\/\/HedyHabra.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HedyHabra.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Beneath My Eyelids<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I often step into that cave, vivid beneath my eyelids,<br \/>\na turquoise cenote where tangled branches and twisted<br \/>\nlimbs form a net over dripping rocky edges. This cove<br \/>\nis hidden, no one knows how to get there, not even me,<br \/>\nuntil I take that turn and slip like a sunken ship\u2019s hull<br \/>\npulled down by the currents to ocean depths where<br \/>\nlight filters in dancing beams scented with longing,<br \/>\nresounding with faint echoes of the shadow of forgotten<br \/>\nwords taking shape as arms surround me like vines.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>The Skin of Our Teeth<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I feel like an empty shell<br \/>\nwith nothing to tell<br \/>\nan abandoned instrument<br \/>\ngathering dust<br \/>\non a coffee table next to the lampshade<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">until a feather irrupts, circles around<br \/>\nbreaking their solitude<br \/>\ninanimate objects,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">speckled motes<br \/>\nsurround me<br \/>\nfilling space with mute messages<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">the air becomes dense a gestation of words<br \/>\nunleashes patterns extending<br \/>\nrows of filtered sunrays<br \/>\nlined-up sparrows<br \/>\nresting on electric wires<br \/>\ncrooked beaks menacing wings flutter<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">A songbird I owned as a child<br \/>\nin Heliopolis<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">**<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I can still see raven\u2019s wings hover through<br \/>\nbars feel my bird\u2019s hopeless flight<br \/>\nas black feathers darken<br \/>\nthe bulbul\u2019s cage<br \/>\nand in a corner<br \/>\nhanging<br \/>\nits head<br \/>\ndripping blood<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>The Colors of Dawn<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Spring rains wash out tears and winter fears<br \/>\nDoves dip their wings in the colors of dawn<br \/>\nChildren gather fallen petals, feather and down<br \/>\nLet\u2019s weave a tapestry with a thousand petals!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Doves dip their wings in the colors of dawn<br \/>\nCherry blossoms cover the veined branches<br \/>\nLet\u2019s weave a tapestry with a thousand petals<br \/>\nInvent a new alphabet to record our dreams!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Cherry blossoms cover the veined branches<br \/>\nLet\u2019s paint windows and doors on stonewalls<br \/>\nInvent a new alphabet to record our dreams<br \/>\nFingers string beads carved-out of olive pits!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Let\u2019s paint windows and doors on stonewalls<br \/>\nHang rosaries on the highest limbs and towers<br \/>\nFingers string beads carved-out of olive pits<br \/>\nSmall hands gather pebbles to erase borders!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*****<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"pvc_clear\"><\/div>\n<p 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