Best Kazakhstan Poems

(Transit Lounge, Dubai International Airport, circa 2007)


He answered
that he was from far Kazakhstan, 
“Exotic place,” he added,
which I know but could not pinpoint 
on my mental map.

She smiled
and said, “I am from India somewhere
farther to the northeast bordering China.”
“Hence her fairer skin,” I thought.

And she...

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The snow fell lightly facing Tehran the stars all seemed to glow over the Capsien Sea from a heated Indian Ocean beholder of the Black Sea we hadn't battled cold like this an yet a deeply covered warmth seemed to cradle us beneath the blanket...

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Though ice may coat my outward guise,
Inside, my Kazakh flame still flies!
Oh, my people, for your rise,
I was born to seek the skies!
Why must a chosen few divide,
The land’s vast wealth, its rightful pride?
The fight goes on, unyielding and strong,
For every soul here should belong.
From...

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Drunk with the ecstasy of Divine Love
Dears emerge in union to sing praises
For victories as burdens lift and fall
Lift and fall
Drums rolling, trumpets toppling
Showing the way

All is blue, soft and sapphire
Waterfalls flow through our veins
Connecting strings and strands
As the Star of Dimash
Fill spring flowers in...

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We searched for your slanting eyes
as you plucked a dombra
on hills of Kazakhstan 
your circles of light
dancing, leaping, gyrating  
making heath grow
in bundles

It sang your mission
Heaven on Earth
Heaven on Earth
ropes loosened, dangled
Where to ?

Into One Source
where we created you
so that love can 
jump again...

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