Four-legged creatures are more reliable and safe than these two-legged creatures.
But more than those four-legged creatures,
A four-legged chair is more reliable.
Bahtiyar Hidayet, a poet from Azerbaijan, shares his seven short poems
Bahtiyar Hidayet, born in 1974 in the Gazakh region of the Republic of Azerbaijan, graduated from university in 1995 and has been working as a history teacher since 1998. Wrote poetry since high school and has 4 poetry books published in Azerbaijan.
The Chair
My friend, it is a fact that
Four-legged creatures are more reliable and safe than these two-legged creatures.
But more than those four-legged creatures,
A four-legged chair is more reliable.
Even if we sit on it and rest,
We can safely lean on it.
But if one day we are hanged from a gallows,
The reason for this will be that most reliable creature,
That is, a chair.
Look, life is so unreliable.
The Greatest Wish
A woman dressed in black
Cries at her husband’s grave
But when he was alive,
He made her sick with his constant nagging
Now he won’t let her rest even in the grave
He even took a seat next to her
And her late husband,
Wishes her long life in the grave…
A thousand years, a million years.
Poet
A poet is like a lamp —
He cannot shine unless he is hanged.
But this is a different kind of hanging:
The stool stands beneath the executioner’s feet.
Old Man
Old man
His zipper is open.
Yes-
If someone has died in the house,
The gate should be left open.
Flight
For the first time, he boarded a plane
He gave his life
And bought a ticket
For the “Home – Cemetery” flight.
But it was a wooden plane—
One passenger only,
With countless pilots.
Slice of hot pepper
A slice of hot pepper in the salad
Burned my tongue, my lips
Then my eyes caught a headline:
Sex workers staged a protest
Their main slogan read:
“We didn’t give birth to the politicians!”
A far more bitter reality
I found no words to respond—
My tongue froze, my lips too
Body
Body 90-60-90
But tongue one meter
Run, my friend,
If you want to live to 90!
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