TARANA TURAN RAHIMLI

TARANA TURAN RAHIMLI

Again I Can’t Sleep

Again I can’t sleep

This night patience tests me.

The longest night of my life

At last will put an end of me.

The memories will awaken,

Seeing me that I am awake.

Oh, how many people will run to me

Through the corners of my past.

So many guests

Won’t go in my thoughts.

One of them will break the rules

And will quarrel with all of them.

Again, the sunless days

Will be covered with greyness.

Once I interrupted the tongue

Now it will try to put me to the sword.

The blood of the dead wishes

Will be splashed on my face.

In the north of this night

This poem will be frozen.

Poets

They come toward themselves

Till the day they know who they are.

They come to life and pass away thousand times

Till their death-hour comes.

They set webs like spiders,

They pull the nets inside of them.

Whatever grief they have, gather in heart

And the grief turns to a new poem.

They share grief with mountains,

They shake the hands of rocks.

They teach stones how to speak,

They don’t know the language of destiny.

The God always protect them,

There is God’s light in their hearts.

There is a pure child inside of them

God make this child grow old, but not be adult.

They pass away being hung from their words,

They don’t let the words be choked.

They are tired out worn-out life,

I Grew Up

I was left on the crossroads,

I grow up choosing my own way.

I passed through the aches

That filled into my inside.

I was interested with a strange wish,

I directed towards light and sound.

I drunk off the love

I grew up drinking such loves.

I took hands of the expectation,

I was lost in the corners of life.

I cut the grief to my height

I grew up in this way.

My spirit was invaded thousand times,

I took shelter only in the hemi stiches.

A fire was made inside of my heart

But I didn’t burn, I grew up being experienced.

TRANSLATOR: SEVIL GULTEN

TARANA TURAN RAHIMLI

TARANA TURAN RAHIMLI: Assosiate Prof. 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 Turkey, Azerbaijan, Philippine, Kazakhstan, İtaly, Oman, Belgium, USA. 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 25 Western and Eastern countries. She is works were published in Azerbaijan, England, Italy, Spain, USA, Germany, Belgium, Mexico, Chile, China, Turkey, Russia, Romania, India, Portugal, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Serbia, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Oman, Macedonia, Saudi Arabia and other countries. Poems and articles have been published in many international sites around the world, on periodicals and in anthologies.