Umid Ali writes

FORMS OF A KEEN

Love a grief

Call a sorrow

Give a place from the bottom of your heart

To a pain

If

It encourages you

To happiness!

***

If you want to see the happiness

In the morning

Face the sun

***

Divide the keen,

Halve it,

Dedicate one of them to your ineffective life,

Keep the other one for the happiness.

***

Keep your tears,

Don’t listen to your heart.

One day it becomes

Pearl and diamond…

And a happiness! 

--tr. Asror Allayarov from "The Gate Opened by Angels"

 

The Keening (Lament for a Lost Soul) -- Doug Woods & Colin Powell

Umid Ali writes

ME AND LORCA

ME: 
Why is it impossible to break the grief?

Neither burn nor sink it?

Brother, why does grief never die?

Why can pain be ever terrible?

LORCA: 
As if the dawn after a dark night,

May we need to suffer.

Dear, if there is no grief in the world,

A joy may not deserve dignity.

--tr. Asror Allayarov from "The Gate Opened by Angels"

 

 El beso (The Kiss) -- Salvador Dalí

 Amor (Love) -- Federico Lorca

Umid Ali writes

DON’T BECOME A DISH BUT BE WATER

Don’t become a dish but be water inside the dish.

--Bruce Lee

***

A handful of water…

If you spill it it becomes a plant,

Then the lovers’ breast fills with a lawn.

Unless you sip,

The ground fills with grass,

At that time will you want

To become a handful of water?!

***

A look can position the sky,

A howl can hold the universe.

A heart as big as the sky --

Tell me, what more do you need?!

(But don’t tell me the universe…)

--tr. Asror Allayarov from "The Gate Opened by Angels"

 

 A Handful of Water -- Miguel Bolacha