TARANA TURAN RAHIMLI

TARANA TURAN RAHIMLI

LIFE IS A FAST TRAIN

My God, who is driving me out?

Who is making me breathless?

Who is hurrying the life?

Who is hurrying inside of me?

The years are fast train,

The month is over as it begins.

The weeks shove each other,

The days are lost in hurry.

The  nights and daytime

As if  fights against me.

I am competing with a second,

The hours escape out of my hands.

The moments soak into the memory.

Everything turns and become past.

The days break in a hurry,

The days are over in a hurry.

I don’t know when time passes

Because of number of works.

The time that I didn’t dear to spend myself

Is pulled off me by the time.

Today turns to yesterday all of a sudden

I am going embracing the next day.

I don’t live my own life,

I only fly above it.

AS IF THIS LOVE IS

ON THE EDGE OF DEATH 

As if this love is on the edge of death

Go, don’t let your eyes be covered with blood.

Now there is no use of consoling or hoper,

Don’t hurt yourself, or don’t wear me out.

Now my feelings have been frozen,

It won’t melt even  I put them into the sun.

You  filled my heart with so much grief,

No love is able to enter my heart either.

I have seen a grave inside of your eyes,

Don’t insist saying “I love you”.

As if this love is on the edge of death

Go, don’t let your eyes be covered with blood.

LIFE IS LIKE THE INSIDE OF PALM

Life is like the inside of palm,

I look at it is seen from anywhere.

I hold its hands secretly,

And leave it, but it is seen from here.

Again they  have caught a lot of grief,

And bring them for to grow.

To sprout the new grief

With the last tear of my eyes.

The last hope is hanging in the well,

It is on the edge of the rope.

A human being looks for a corner

To hide himself from the sin of the world.

Life is like the inside of palm,

Its end is seen from anywhere.

The blood of the faded wishes

Is seen on my hands.

TRANSLATED FROM AZERBAIJANI INTO ENGLISH BY SEVIL GULTEN

TARANA  TURAN RAHIMLI

TARANA TURAN RAHIMLI is an Azerbaijani poet, writer, journalist, translator, literary critic, teacher, academic, is an active member of the International Literary Agency in Turkey and Azerbaijan. She is a PhD in Philology, Associate Professor of Azerbaijan and World Literature Chair of Azerbaijan State Pedagogical University, author of 7 books and more than 400 articles. She is the editor and reviewer of 20 monographs and poetry books.The work has been published in more than 15 Western and Eastern countries. She is works were published in Azerbaijan, England, Italy, Spain, USA, Germany, Belgium, Chile, Turkey, Russia, Kazakhstan, Tatarstan, Uzbekistan and other countries. Poems and articles have been published in many international sites around the world, on periodicals and in anthologies.