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.








Autumn

It was raining again, it was charming night  
There was no walking , no noise in the street
The city was so strange , the outdoor was so sad
Autumn say me  : die from grieving and dying on

The street headlight lowering  the head
annoying cloud on the asphalt
Drops  are playing on the pond
Poetry begins on the pedestal

The drops banish away one by one on the window glass
The sleepless city is rubbing eyes
The  moon was  hidden  somewhere , its shadow  was playing on water
My poetic heart  get excited now

It was raining again, it was charming night  
There was no walking , no noise in the street
The city was so strange , the outdoor was so sad
Autumn say me  : die from grieving and dying on







Praising Of Stone


Don’t hurt feelings of stone calling a cruel man as “ stone”,
There is a such stone centuries beat it, don’t touch that stone!
If you work for the stone, it will appreciate you,
There is such word if told to a stone, it will melt,  heart won’t care it!

Those what a human being forgets, the memory of stone doesn’t forget,
There are those who throw stones unfairly, the unfair stone isn’t thrown.
Tell your dreams to the flowing waters and tell your secret to a black stone,
Stone- is your friend at the end of life and it is brother of your grave.


The locked doors were opened after we knocked them with stones,
The stones built our houses, stones run off from our ways.
My friend, strange man can’t bear to listen to our grief, but stones listen to,
Stones shed tears for the motion of life, stones whines for grief of life.


Some people earn money by cutting stones,
At the end we harden like stones, at times stones disgust us.
The leaves, flowers fade away and stones are left on the hearth
The stone of thousand years makes the history remember us.


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 25 Western and Eastern countries. She is works were published in Azerbaijan, England, Italy, Spain, USA, Germany, Belgium, Chile, Turkey, Russia, Romania, India, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Mexico, Poland, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kosovo, Oman, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Saudi Arabic and other countries. Poems and articles have been published in many international sites around the world, on periodicals and in anthologies.