Steel
A poem by Erkin VOHIDOV It was a hatchet at the first set-out, Later as a cannon came about. It’s a pistol, a rifle, and a sword, As a bomb one day it was restored. Bur it only conquered[…]
Category: Translations from Uzbek poetry
Poems by imprisoned Uzbek poet and journalist DIlmurod SAYYID
Dear Friends, Please meet an Uzbek journalist and poet in prison, Dilmurod SAYYID. I am very hopeful for his soonest release. *** Do not laugh and flout, I entreat, My mishap is only mine, indeed. Luck is mine – it’s[…]
Zebo MIRZO
Happy birthday to beautiful Uzbek poetess ZEBO MIRZO! “Give your soul only once to kiss” All right, you may go off… As if wild orchids Cry bitter tears in the moonlit night Lip of hope will converse in whispers Begging[…]
Khayrulla HAMIDOV
Dear Friends! Please meet an Uzbek poet, peace-lover, journalist KHAYRULLA HAMIDOV. I’ll complain to God If you do not let me live in peace I will give the world to you away. But I will be not in perfect bliss,[…]
One more new ghazal by Alisher Navoi translated into English
For me to die in bitter torment – it’s easy bit without you, I better die, hey soul, to stay I can’t admit without you. A dead man cannot breath at all, however when you look at me The lamentation[…]
A poem by DILOROM ERGASH
Dilorom Ergash is a poetess from Namangan in the Ferghana Valley. She has several poetry collections to her credit. She writes beautiful ghazals. Dilorom always supports young poets and writers to improve their creative writing. *** I’ve no strength to[…]
A ghazal by Alisher Navoi
Hey, your face like early spring, is able to revive daybreak, A hundred leaves, a thousand tunes, the bloom and nightingale would take. The branches of Tubi and Sidra – heaven’s trees – grass in your street Feeding with water[…]
A ghazal by Alisher Navoi (1441-1501)
A sweetheart heals the pain, I don’t have love mate, My soul’s full of heaviness, but no compassionate. I tied my heart to your arrow, to who can I wail now, Your edge cut my flesh and blood – no[…]
A ghazal by Alisher Navoi
Do not leave me, I might cognize myself not a moment sans you, Come closer, even not a second I can be tolerant sans you. Be always in my heart, it is yours, but if I perish in outland To[…]