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Sherko Bekes

 New poems

 Autumn

 

Today autum passed

and left this region.

when I visited

the abandoned place,

I saw

that he had left behind

a sigh.

I took this sigh home.

It appeared custom-tailored

for one of my poems

  The Chair

The chair

on which the poet had been killed

was a witness

It stayed alive

until it saw the death of the executioner

and freedom came upon it.

  Love song

 

It was the first time that a sugar-cane

rebelled against her field.

This slender and pale maiden

had given her heart to the wind.

But the field did not consent to thier

marriage.

consumed with love she said,

"He is to me beyond compare.

This is where my heart lies."

To punish the maiden

whose eyes were already wet with dew,

the indegnant field called the woodpecker

who drilled a few holes

into the heart and the body of the plant.

From this day on

she was a flute,

and the hand of the wind

endowed her wounds with melodies.

She has been singing ever since for the

world.

 

 

RAHA/13/July/2003

Sherko Bekes, son of Faiq Bekes, is one of the most famous Kurdish poets. Sherko was born in 1940 in Sulaymania in Southern Kurdistan. He was educated in Sulaymania and Bagdad and published his first collection of poems there in 1968. His poems reflect his close association with the Kurdish liberation movement which he joined in 1965, working in the movement's radio station - the Voice of Kurdistan. During the period 1984 - 1987, he lived with the Kurdish peshmergas (freedom fighters). Since 1987, Sherko Bekes has lived in Sweden where continues to write. In 1987 he was awarded the Swedish PEN Club's Tucholsky Prize. In the same year he was awarded the freedom of the city of Florence. (Summary from Index on Censorship, by H Sinjari, 1988)

 

 

 

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