{"id":345,"date":"2016-06-21T21:29:55","date_gmt":"2016-06-21T21:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.azizisa.org\/en\/?p=345"},"modified":"2017-03-23T17:35:08","modified_gmt":"2017-03-23T17:35:08","slug":"on-summer-solstice-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azizisa.org\/en\/on-summer-solstice-day\/","title":{"rendered":"On the day of the summer solstice\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

Aziz Isa Elkun<\/span><\/p>\n

In these years that pass by full of memories,<\/span>
\nI lived on your streets with constant effort.<\/span>
\nMy hope shines like an ever bright star,<\/span>
\nI will celebrate you today with flowers.<\/span><\/p>\n

I love this life, this world so beautiful,<\/span>
\nI live in the desert and dream of the oasis.<\/span>
\nI wish to soar like an eagle,<\/span>
\nI wish the blue sky for my homeland!<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

A refugee has many untold stories,<\/span>
\nWhite feathered seagulls witness his adventures on the sea.<\/span>
\nHis countless homesick summers and winters,<\/span>
\nWeeping rain drops his constant companion.<\/span><\/p>\n

The young man who left his home grew up,<\/span>
\nHe never took comfort from tears.<\/span>
\nThough separation pierced his life,<\/span>
\nHe trusted that joyful days would arrive.<\/span><\/p>\n

His loved ones left on the horizon,<\/span>
\nForced to live in solitary exile,<\/span>
\nHe kept seeing the Tarim* in his dreams,<\/span>
\nSeeing Oghuz* who was abandoned among the wolves.<\/span><\/p>\n

Life goes by without caring,\u00a0<\/span>
\nIt has no intention of going back.<\/span>
\nSo I didn\u2019t stay idle under the thieving years,<\/span>
\nI strove hard to present them with flowers.<\/span><\/p>\n

My children are almost as tall as me now,<\/span>
\nI feel the worries of life have just begun.<\/span>
\nShould I admit that I am grown up,<\/span>
\nRemembering my own father\u2019s smiling face?<\/span><\/p>\n

Elkun* will never be tamed by life\u2019s destiny,<\/span>
\nHe will be reborn once every year.<\/span>
\nHe will live on with his faith given by God,<\/span>
\nEvery year until the summer solstice day arrives!<\/span><\/p>\n

22 June 2016, London<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0__________________________<\/span><\/p>\n

Notes<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

* Tarim – is a name of the river. The Tarim River the world\u2019s longest land-locked river with a length of 2,030\u00a0km, which flows down from the Himalayas into the Uyghur Autonomous Region (Xinjiang) of China. \u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

* Oguz – is a legendary hero of the Uyghur and other Turkic peoples who lived in the 2nd century BCE.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

* Elkun – the poet\u2019s pen name. It means \u201cpeople, folk, or a day in people\u2019s life\u201d\u00a0 in Uyghur and Turkic languages.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0__________________________<\/span><\/p>\n

Read the original version of this poem in Uyghur language:<\/span><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.azizisa.org\/kun_we_tun_tengleshken\/ <\/a>
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Aziz Isa Elkun In these years that pass by full of memories, I lived on your streets with constant effort. My hope shines like an ever bright star, I will celebrate you today with flowers. I love this life, this world so beautiful, I live in the desert and dream of the oasis. I wish<\/p>\n

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