TARANA TURAN RAHIMLI

TARANA

TURAN RAHIMLI

THE  PICTURE OF THE SILENCE

The birds remained hanging in the water

And the fishes in the water,

Early in the morning

Horizon passed away here.

The trees have become dry

Bending their top

In the place

Where the wind drove them out.

An autumn flower  blossomed,

The slopes have become touched.

The clouds are hanging heavily

Towards the earth.

The color of the silent water in the sea

Has become turbid.

The surface of the sun is gloomy

The shoulders of the soil are tired.

The life is in its eternal silence

With its dumb scenes.

I wonder how the world seems oddly

In its coffin made of glass.

THE FEELINGS AT THE “BLOOD BANK”

The smell of blood had settled

Both on the floor and on the ceiling.

There are pictures on the walls

Which are able to froze the blood in the veins.

On the other side of the window

Firstly the hopes

Then the prayers were falling.

It was possible to read from their appearance

What was inside of the people.

The destiny was weakening those

Who were in need of blood.

The  heart of the doctor

Who was visiting the patients

Had run over.

The grief

Named as  thalassaemia and haemophilia

Were  thirsty for the blood.

The fates that was riding

On the halter of the death

Were at  a step’s distance to the death angel.

The hopes  that were not sowed were growing

My God, what purgatory is it?

Here a grave and  blood

Are on the eye of the  scales

For the first time in my life

I saw the colour of the grief

On the face of a baby

Who was unaware of its  grief.

A POEM IS A DIVINE WORD

A poem is a divine word

It can’t be said at any moment.

It can’t come to life

At any moment you want.

A poem must firstly grow

In the uterus of the spirit.

Then it must be perfect

Then it must  either enter the heart

Or must turn to ashes.

In order to write

A drop of poem

Your senses and feelings

Must run like streams

A poem must be written

With the blood of the heart

A poet must  be seen

Inside of each hemistich.

TRANSLATOR: 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, Kocova, Bosna and other countries. Poems and articles have been published in many international sites around the world, on periodicals and in anthologies.