ABBASALI AHMADOGHLU

 

 

My Anthem For My Flag

 

Since the azure world I was,

Infinite, clean, and clear,

Innocent, such a surprise

That trembled thee in fear.

 

Thou flooded my blood

Down the valleys and sneered.

Capped the velvet plains my blood,

My anthem, my flag appeared.

 

Thou escaped from me, I know,

Like a wild golden deer.

I chased thee for years, though,

My shining star! Oh dear!

 

Bending bow, I got for thee,

Eternally I am free.

 

 

Life’s Crystals

 

Lord, the loveliest,

Let life’s crystals

Fall, swing softly,

Prosperously on my love!

My land, my soil, my soul,

On my green home,

My planet, the Earth.

Let the terrible darkness

Fall in love with Erebus,

To bring us your Eros.

Let Night and Day reconcile

For glorious brightness.

Lord, the loveliest,

Let life’s crystals

Fall, swing softly,

Prosperously on my love!

 

ABBASALI AHMADOGHLU

 

ABBASALI AHMADOGHLU was born in Khoy, West Azerbaijan province in Southern Azerbaijan (Iran) on March 10th 1968. He entered Shiraz Medical University in 1986 and majored as technician of radiology and was employed in Urmia Medical University five years later. Then he entered Tabriz University and majored in English Language and literature there in 1999. He started writing poems and short stories since then. He started Sahand Language school in Khoy in 2001 and post graduate studies in Azad University of Tabriz. He received his M.A. degree in English literature. He was invited to teach English Language and literature in Azad University and then Payam-e Noor University in Khoy. He retired from his radiology job in 2017. Then he defended his thesis for PhD degree in English literature in 2022 in Azerbaijan Languages University in Baku in Azerbaijan. He has published seven books, 3 monographies on three novels published in the 21th century, one collection of short stories in three languages in Baku and Türkiye and a collection of his poems in Türki and English in Baku and one translation from Azerbaijani Turkic (Türki) to English in the US. At the same time, he is a researcher and many of his essays have been published in different countries in four languages. He is interested in reading, climbing, hiking, bike riding, swimming and Wu Shu. He is married and has a son and a daughter.