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Sky’s Tears – Poetry from Uzbekistan

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Sky’s Tears – Poetry from Uzbekistan

Uzbek poet and short story writer also shares two other poems – A letter to Marquez and The Cortazar’s Tomb

Sherzod Artikov was born in 1985 in the city of Marghilan of Uzbekistan. He graduated from Fergana Polytechnic institute in 2005. He was one of the winners of the national literary contest “My Pearl Region” in prose in 2019. In 2020, his first book “The Autumn’s Symphony” was published in Uzbekistan. In 2021, his works were published in the anthology called “World Writers” in Bangladesh, “Asia Sings” and “Mediterranean Waves” in Egypt in English language. In 2021, he participated in “International Writers Congress” organized in Argentina under the name “Mundial insurgencial cultural” dedicated to Federico Garcia Lorca’s life and work, “International Poetry Festival” in Tunisia, “International Poetry Carnival” in Singapore. This year he was awarded “Global Peace Ambassador” by Iqra Foundation, “International Peace Ambassador” by World Literary Forum for Peace and Human Rights, “Certificate of Friendship” and other certifications by “Revista Cardenal” in Mexico. Currently,  he is the literary consultant  of the cultural website of Pakistan “Sindh Courier”, the representative and delegate in Uzbekistan of the literature magazine of Mexico “Revista Cardenal” and the literature and art magazine of Chile “Casa Bukowski”.

Sherzod Artikov - Uzbek Writer-Sindh Courier (1)His works were published in several magazines and newspapers of Uzbekistan. Then translated into Russian, English, Turkish, Serbian, Slovenian, Macedonian, Spanish, Italian, Polish, Albanian, Romanian, French, Greek, Hebrew, Portuguese, Bengali, Arabic, Chinese, Indonesian, Persian and Urdu language.

Sky’s Tears

Ruined and broken

Land of Palestine

Day and night

Under the bombs

Blood flows like a river

Poisoned life of people

Dying children, old men

Dying fathers, mothers and sons

Families are being destroyed

Houses, walls are being crumpled

Nature is being terrified.

But, the world is silent

The Mankind is silent

The God is silent.

Maybe cries only the sky

Because of the cruelty of humanity

Carrying a complaint against them

Or being angry at their silence

Maybe cries only the sky

Who caught in deep shock

Whispering in the company of Earth

Turning whose tears into the rain

Maybe cries only the sky

For being not able to understand

In spite of the endless thoughts:

Why so bloodily killing each other

Brothers who in one land were born!

А Letter to Marquez

Teacher,

I pray for your homeland!

Now there reigns

Chaos, turmoil, bloodshed

A threat to peace grows

Human rights are being destroyed

Justice disappeared.

Your Macondo weeps

Where you’re safe and comfortable

Lived in past with a brunette Mercedes

Where you wrote the fabulous Buendia family

And described the formidable Patriarch

Your Macondo weeps

Where you breathed the fresh air

Opening the window in the early morning

Waiting for the sun on the windowsill

With a cup of coffee in your hand

You Macondo weeps Master

Where you sang a serenade

Cheerfully with a smile on your lips

Danced the tango, played tirelessly

With a glass of bitter tequila

Wearing a big branded hat!

Cortazar’s Tomb

The great one`s ashes rest here

In the cemetery of vain Paris

Among strangers a lonely tomb

As if staring into the horizon sadly

From here impossible it is

To see kindly land of Argentine

The homeland where he was born

The homeland where was spent

His childhood and adolescence

No, you cannot see it,

Cannot see it at all, painful tomb

It`s as obvious as

Two and two is equal to four.

But, a stubborn grave

Does not want to admit it

And it`s capricious claiming

To the gray clouds

To a half-naked trees

That beyond the horizon shines

The radiant smile of the motherland!

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