TRANSLATIONS

Examples from Uzbek poetry
(Translated by Azam Abidov)

 

OLIMA NABIZODA


OLIMA NABIZODA, poetess, writes poems in modern style, published several books of poems.

 

DEATH OF NIGHT

 

You have gone.

A moonlit night

Sank into my heart.

Body became heavy

To say a word.

Blood to my heart

Ran from the tongue.

You have gone.

A night

In horizon color

Occupied my soul.

Colors --

Moonlit, blackish, bloody

Evening, nightly, dawn,

Sliced each other.

Privatized in secret

That night you have gone.

A blackbird flown from remote

Landed tired at the nest - heart.

A pair of swan from cage

Trembled on the corpse.

You have gone.

A washer dawn shrouded the night..

 

 

***

 

You love me,

I know.

I wish to mince

But

There is a foe of coquetry in my eyes.

 

 

***

 

A rainy night.

Drops are slowly washing my face,

Not leaving the trace.

In the street

A girl is going

quietly

older than

her mother: