TARANA TURAN RAHIMLI

TARANA  TURAN RAHIMLI

LET ME BE MOTHERLAND FOR YOU

Don’t hope anything from me

I have nothing to divide equally with you

Motherland didn’t grieve for you

Let me be Motherland for you.

Let’s go, let me close your eyes

Don’t look toward that longing.

Let’s go, don’t leave for anywhere

Finding a way out in strangeness.

I haven’t become lucky in this frail world,

Let me try to make you a bit lucky.

Inside of you keep a room for me,

Let me die in Motherland when I pass away.

THE TEARS OF MY EYES WILL CURSE YOU

Forget me so that I can forget you too,

Don’t turn back to test my heart once more.

Let my variegated sorrow be only mine,

Take your love and don’t reprobate me.

Don’t say that this world is betrayer,

Don’t scold me for I bent at my destiny so.

I was more patient than the mountains,

They changed me, I wasn’t so long ago.

Now it is time for this love to pass away,

There will be a grave in my heart as big as you.

I shall neither sigh no I mention your name,

The tears of my eyes will curse you.

THIS LOVE HAS HEADACHE SINCE IT IS BORN

In order to bury your greeting

I throw another greeting on yours.

This love has headache since it is born,

I am leaving still we are safe and sound.

Place your sorrow inside of you thoroughly,

Let your words remain on your tongue now.

There is no grave for my patience bearing you,

Now live with that patience, die with that patience.

Nobody took revenge for this poor love,

Let’s bury the dead body of this love.

We always promised to each other,

Let’s play with words till the end of our life.

TARANA  TURAN RAHIMLI

Dr. TARANA TURAN RAHIMLI is an Azerbaijani poet, writer, journalist, translator, literary critic, teacher, academic, is an active member of the International Literary Agency in Azerbaijan and Turkey. 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, Romania, India, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Tatarstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kocova, Bosna-Hersogovina and other countries. Poems and articles have been published in many international sites around the world, on periodicals and in anthologies.