In her collection “The Lover of Nothing,” which is a renewed edition of her collection “My Heart is Half a Shining Moon,” Latifa Al-Hajj travels the reader once again to the places she visited in Turkey, the country that fascinated her from the first visit and in which she experienced different feelings. She writes to us from the air about a close meeting and an awaited dream, and in front of a running waterfall, she describes the joy of nature around her, and the joy that overwhelms her in its depths.
She describes sleep escaping from her eyes in the evening, and the sun yawning on the bed of the sky in the morning, about love and the moon, near which a blue butterfly resided, and in her easy, delicate language, she describes to us her longing, longing, and waiting for love and the beloved.
From the group's texts:
My heart is a bright half-moon / Poetry writes itself in my heart / Dervishes are not looking for relaxation / Your last selfie / Take me back to the child / To you I will fly / What joy / Greetings from the waterfall / Dark dreams / Far away as a star / Everything is beautiful, everything is happy / The soft criminal He sings in Yalova
"My gift for your birthday":
Christmas comes and our children are getting older, more mature, and more demanding. On this occasion, in particular, many mothers and fathers are confused about choosing the type of gift, its size, and its value. They often resort to buying “ordinary” gifts that may not live up to the highest meaning of the gift, which is to communicate to the child how important he is in our lives and how much we care about him.
Christmas has arrived, and here the hero of the story is wondering about the most precious gift he can give to his child, and here he is wondering in a beautiful monologue about the most precious gift that can be given to his child... so he begins to include a list of gifts that he considers to be the most expensive, between the possible and the impossible, the strangest and the most beautiful... to conclude that the best gift that can be given It is within his reach, as it is within the reach of every mother or father, and it is time.
A text that teaches the child as well as the parents that the value of the gift is not in money, but in the amount of time and love in which we share our daily interests between laughter, play, and seriousness..
Illustrator: Artist Amir Alaei - Iran - works for magazines and specialized publishing houses and is a painter and graphic designer.
