Xayriddin Saloh

In “Yulduzlar afsonasi” the poet tells a legend he heard from his ancestors: everyone has his own star, the number of stars grows when a person is born, and a star falls when someone dies. In the legend seven dark robbers steal the beautiful daughter of the star Hulkar; the mother searches for her daughter in tears and goes on chasing the robbers to this day. The poet says he kept in memory not false tales but true wisdom, and that his devotion to elders is boundless. In “Ko‘krak ochdim shamollarga” the lyrical hero opens his heart to the winds; they bring him sweet daydreams and fragrance, and at dawn open the lips of the buds. In “Yer va ter” it is said that just as bread is sweet because of the tandir’s fire, so a person is dear because of the sweat of his brow shed on the earth.