Best Kazakh Poems

Lift your head from the earth, O Kazakh! 
Don’t be a laughingstock to foreign lands’ track. 
If you don’t stand tall with courage inside, 
The pain from your past will never subside!

Don’t be disheartened! You are not meant to be prey, 
O proud Kazakh, you’re...

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We tried to be Russian, lost our tongue’s embrace,  
Drifted from our roots, living in a foreign place.  
We sought to be Arab, but we went astray,  
Lost in our faith, we let the truth slip away.

We won't bloom as English, in...

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In autumns when my longing grows fierce,
Shall I seek traces of youth’s blazing years?
With carefree hearts, for the sake of our kin,
We’ll live free lives, unburdened within.

The day will come, awaited with yearning,
The day will come, longed for with burning.
When my spirit rises, my chest...

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Read in Kazakh! If you want to understand me,
Think in Kazakh! If you want to understand me!
If you read and think in Kazakh, my words will reach,
We’ll move toward kinship, like siblings born together.

Let’s speak in our pure mother tongue, united,
Speaking without mixing is truly...

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