Mirtemir

In the poem “Bu – men tug‘ilgan tuproq” the poet describes his native soil with mountains, rivers and sandy steppes and praises it as the earth in which the blood and dust of his ancestors lie, of those who gave their lives for freedom; after each stanza he lays his forehead on the soil and declares his devotion. In “Onaginam” the lyrical hero feels deep regret for not having fulfilled a son’s duty to his mother and for not being able to see her off on her last road, and he says that serving the people is also serving her. In “Toshbu” the patience and endurance of an Uzbek woman is praised: she worked in the field in wartime, led ten young women and took her two children along; her husband comes back from the war missing an arm. In “Betobligimda” the sick poet asks again and again, with the same plea, to be seated under a weeping willow.