Thus Spoke Thasonan of Meatus
...they supped on Bjurholm
drank Kumis
dined on haggis
and rubbed down
with sassafras oil
some made dessert from ackee fruit
and had puffer fish and shark fin soup
what word of satan they spoke...
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Categories:
xinjiang, anniversary, boat, bullying, celebration,
Form: Ballad
Uyghur Poetry Translations
...With my Uyghur poetry translations I am trying to build awareness of the plight of Uyghur poets who are being sent to Chinese "reeducation" concentration camps.
Elegy
by Perhat Tursun
loose tran...
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Categories:
xinjiang, allah, culture, discrimination, faith,
Form: Free verse
Perhat Turson: Elegy Translation
...Perhat Tursun
Perhat Tursun (1969-) is one of the foremost living Uyghur language poets, if he is still alive. Born and raised in Atush, a city in China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, Tursun...
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Categories:
xinjiang, brother, eulogy, magic, prison,
Form: Free verse
Deathbeds In the Desert -
...The sand is stained red
with our bygone blood,
the blood that brought us from Ararat to the Alti,
a tribe trekking intrepidly through the Eurasian terrain,
caravans of Caucasians clad with Celtic...
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Categories:
xinjiang, creation, history, western,
Form: Epic
Pursuit
...the solid rock, from its tallest perch
was tumbling down, after navel – gazing –
in songs of darkness ; had the hidden
aloofness in space and time,
i have become a tree, intend to teach
the tr...
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Categories:
xinjiang, anniversaryprayer,
Form: I do not know?