Untitled - Azam Abidov - poet and translator

RIFAT GUMEROV
Rifat Gumerov was born in Ferghana, Uzbekistan. He graduated
from Ferghana Pedagogical Institute and Literature Institute named
after M. Gorky in Moscow. Later he worked at Moscow Writers’
Organization under the Writers Union of Russia and taught at the
faculty of philology in Ferghana. Editor of the “Molodost” (Youth)
anthology, he published the first collections of young authors. R.
Gumerov is a co-founder of the Centre of New Arts. He is an active
member of the Academy of Spiritual Traditions (Vienna, Austria).
He is also editor-in-chief of the almanac, “ARK”. He writes poems
in Russian.
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A bird, apparently, a tit flew,
And it swept up,
Having chirmed at apricot guiltily
The old apricot-tree stands and
Gazes after the bird
Waving its branch like a hand.
The tree watches the bird
With a screaming melancholy
As if it bids farewell for eternity.
My mother says goodbye to me like this.
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