Poetry from Baratov Quvonchbek

The flower fell in love with water...
To water:
"I love you," he said.
Water:
"I love you too," he said.
After some time, again to Gul Suv:
"I love you," he said.

Water:
"I love you too," he said...
The flower got sick and withered...

Suv could not bear to see this situation and called a doctor. After a thorough examination of Gul, the doctor nursed Gul desperately. Water is worried:
- What happened to the flower? he asked.
And the doctor:

- He didn't do anything, he just ran out of water. - he said...
This means that love does not consist in saying, "I only love you!"
Love is loving someone who you believe can give you everything...

- Rumi

Translated by: Baratov Quvonchbek

Essay from Nigunabonu Amirova

Central Asian teen girl sitting in an office chair with long dark hair and a gray jacket over a black blouse.
Niginabonu Amirova
THE CURRENT UZBEK LITERARY ENVIRONMENT - IN MY INTERPRETATION

Samarkand specialized art boarding school
Improvement of the creative environment, originality, creative individuality, uniqueness, and at the same time education of the young generation in the national literary spirit.

Abstract: The improvement of the creative environment, its originality, creative individuality, uniqueness, and at the same time has its influence on the upbringing of the young generation in the national literary spirit. Today, the literary environment is developing more and getting better day by day. In this article, in addition to this, we want to talk about the activities of writers who have been contributing to today's flourishing literary environment and their creative heritage, as well as the activities of the press and mass media.

Key words: literary environment, newspapers, magazines, press, new literary environment, information flow, political sections, shows.
Therefore, before we cover the current Uzbek literary environment, it can be recognized that the world literary environment has interacted with them.

The influence of the literary environment is not small in the formation of writers who made a great contribution to the development of world literature, as well as writers whose works were read with love in smaller circles. No matter how talented a writer is, not only the educational institutions he studied in, but also the literary environment he was involved in are of great importance in the formation of his worldview and the development of his artistic skills. 

First of all, let's get acquainted with the current press activity.
There are 19 republican newspapers and 2 regional newspapers in Tashkent. ("Tashkent Hakikati", "Tashkentskaya Pravda" “The reality of Tashkent”), 2 city newspapers ("Tashkent okshomi", "Vecherniy Tashkent" “Tashkent evening”), 44 mass circulation newspapers are published. 62 of the 67 magazines published in the republic are published in Tashkent. 4 information agencies operate in Tashkent. 

Most of the publishing houses in Uzbekistan are located in Tashkent. Radio Tashkent occupies a leading position in radio broadcasting of Uzbekistan. For radio listeners of Tashkent city and region, broadcasts prepared by the chief editorial office of Tashkent city and Tashkent region radio stations are broadcasted every day (since 1971). The editor-in-chief has informational and socio-political departments. The editor-in-chief of Tashkent TV studio programs for residents of Tashkent city and Tashkent region prepares special program series.

TASHKENT.
Poets and writers from Tashkent will have the opportunity to publish their works in "Al-Isloh" magazine, "Taraqqi", "Khurshid", "Shuhrat", "Tujjor", "Asiyo", "Sadoyi Turkistan" newspapers. At the moment, book publishing is underway, and various books and collections are being published.

KHORASM.
The Khorezm literary environment has been one of the components of Uzbek national literature. Therefore, the general characteristics and principles of each period were reflected in the oasis literature to a certain extent. Of course, Jadidism, which is considered a phenomenon of national awakening, is not an exception. Therefore, Jadidism and its literary direction have their own history in this region. This history began with the work of Kamil Khorezmi and reached its peak in the work of Avaz, and these life-giving ideas were continued by their followers into a new reality.

ANDIJAN
Andijan is one of the regional cultural centers with its ancient traditions, which has delivered many great artists, writers and poets to our national culture, and whose cultural life is still very lively. The organizational center of the literary process is the regional branch of the Union of Writers, literary life is connected with the activities of local press publications and educational institutions. At present, well-known writers and poets such as Olimjon Khaldor, Tolan Nizam, Tursunoy Sadiqova, Zamira Rozieva, Farid Usman, Nabi Jaloliddin, Khurshidabanu live and work in Andijan. In particular, Nabi Jalaluddin's novels "Khayyom" and "The Mill" about Cholpon became a significant event in Uzbek literature.

CONCLUSION
To sum up, the capital city of Tashkent not only attracts famous writers and poets to its home, but also has an impact on their creative development. The reason is that many publications and books take a long time to be prepared in Tashkent, from being ready to being copied. In this process, it is appropriate for the author to work in Tashkent, but the emergence of publishing houses in some regions has become a problem for authors from such regions.
As for the modern literature of the literary environment, an impartial study of it on a regional scale allows to clarify some of its controversial aspects, to understand and re-evaluate its socio-aesthetic essence based on the ideology of independence, and to expand the existing ideas about the literary process of that time. In this place, the Khorezm literary environment can undoubtedly be one of the research objects.

THE LIST OF USED LITERATURE

Toshkent [ensiklopediya], T., 1992;
 Azadayev F., Tashkent vo vtoroy polovine XIXveka, T., 1959;
 Sokolov Yu. A..Tashkent, tashkentsi i Rossiya, T. 1965;
 Dobroyemislov A. I., Tashkent v proshlom i nastoyashem. Istoricheskiy ocherk. T., 1912;
 Bartold V. V., Sochineniya, 3t.; M., 1965;
 Muminova R. G., Filanovich M. I., Tashkent na perekrestke istorii, T., 2001;


Poetry from Surayyo Xolmurodova

Young Central Asian teen girl with long black hair and brown eyes and an embroidered blue and purple hat and white ruffly blouse.
Surayyo Xolmurodova

A piece of my life, from the days spent with my father.

Although I am a girl who does not like simple wealth, but my heart is very delicate, because until this time, my father did not speak harshly to me, even if he beat me, he told us later why he did that. It's true that my father didn't have to explain much to us, but he told us not to get the wrong idea.

From a young age, he was against us wearing shorts. And when my mother said let her dress modernly, and my father always repeated: "If your daughters wear short clothes, whatever mistakes they make, they will not be in paradise, and these walks are not suitable for us. "I liked what my father used to say. Because I felt uncomfortable when I was dressed openly. Even though they were such hard-handed people, they played with us innocently like young children, forgetting the sorrows of the world. 

Even now, that sincere person plays with us not as much as before, but sometimes. That day I went home, my father reprimanded my sister, she was a little upset, after two or three minutes, my father held her hand, raised his little finger as if to say peace. You see, he loves his children very much, even if he hits them a thousand times. But even if we are children, sometimes we do not know how to forget our parents little faults.


Daughter of Kholmurodova Surayyo Sherzod, 2nd year student of the Shahrisabz branch of the Tashkent Institute of Chemical Technology.

Poetry from O’tkir Mulikboyev

Central Asian teen boy with short brown hair and brown eyes standing next to a Christmas tree with lights and red balls. There's a window with the night sky behind him and he has holiday lights around his neck.
O’tkir Mulikboyev
A NEW YEAR'S DREAM

New year, renewed new dream,
The birthday of the magic of goodness.
Children's laughter is sonorous,
The day of the awakening of love.

He is the one who spreads anxiety,
He is the one who freezes dust.
A magic spell of hope,
New year beauty, creator.

The fairy tale also whispers sometimes,
It rained on the magic box.
The stranger who opposes him is sad,
If you want an answer, happiness is a feeling.

He takes you by the hand and leads you quietly,
It will bring back memories for a moment.
The place where the miles are ready to hit,
It is better to say the impressions.

New Year is the best wish and dream,
Spread love to all hearts.
Whoever makes the intention is kind,
In the new year, you will surely reach your heart's content.



NEW YEAR'S RINGTONES

The sound of bells with drums and bells,
Nice sweet bong sound.
Let everyone gather and go out into the street,
The flight of the reindeer drives the sleigh,

Raise your hands up now,
Let gifts pour in, see a miracle.
Falling through the window into the chimney,
Children's joy is a real miracle.

Santa came with his sleigh
Raise your hands and say a poem.
Do not steal the joy from the face,
Let the beacon of goodness shine.

The world is like a magical fairy tale,
If you make dreams, they will come true right now.
Awakens love, a house full of guests,
Embraces grief without a path.

The New Year is coming, ring the bell,
It's as if everyone is awake and happy.
Happiness will fall from the sky, snow as white as the heart,
The world is alive and growing.

Ring the bell, ring the bell,
Nice, nice bong sound.

O'tkir Mulikboyev is a primary education teacher at school 75, Koshrabot district, Samarkand region, Republic of Uzbekistan and a student of the Primary Education department of ISFT Institute, Republic of Uzbekistan.

Art from Robert Fleming

Black text on white background reads, "April 1, 3026 Rocky Mountain Report, Robert Fleming."
Large rock outcropping in a grassy field inhabited by white mountain goats all around the edge of the image. Goats are resting on red and black and blue and purple ball and stick models of atoms. Trees in the distance.
Mountain vista with trees and rocks in the background and three differently colored oxygen canisters in the foreground.
Snowflakes in front of a tree-lined and rocky mountain vista.
Frothy blue water on top, a mostly dry mountain vista on the bottom.

Robert Fleming (b. 1963) is a visual poet from Lewes, Delaware, United States. Robert follows his mother as a visual artist and his grandfather as a poet. His art is influenced by the artists Salvador Dali, Andy Warhol, and Pablo Picasso. My digital graphics series April 1, 3026 Rocky Mountain news report imagines the end of the earth. Each image answers one of the five reporter questions: who, what, when, where, and why.

This series was inspired by my October, 2023 visit to the Rocky Mountains when I noticed that the mountain surface has texture and I wanted to write on it. Further, I was inspired by visiting the Rocky Mountains’ city Leadville, CO @ elevation 10,158′, where I only had 85% blood oxygen and survived @ St. Vincent’s hospital.

I used the computer software Canva to create image layers which makes the illusion of writing on the Rocky Mountains. Follow Robert at https://www.facebook.com/robert.fleming.5030 . Buy Robert’s visual poetry book White Noir, * ARRIVING 11.21.23 white noir by Robert Fleming – Devil’s Party Press (devilspartypress.com).

Poetry from Graciela Noemi Villaverde

Light skinned Latina woman with black reading glasses, reddish hair, earrings, and a pink top.
RAINBOW PENUMBRAS 

Pierced by the wind my steps... 
I see myself lying restless 
between the scream and the silence

I hear sirens behind the rainbow, 
in treble clef 
High amazement 
Sweet delirium

Name day time, 
swaying that appears. 
when a new year approaches
 
And I say to myself: 
You still fulfill vertically 
your destiny, 
peering into the nuance of each letter

Only walk and only peace

Heart of lateral foliage, 
until the canvas comes down of rainbow gloom, 
to wrap it... 

GRACIELA NOEMI VILLAVERDE is a writer and poet from Concepción del Uruguay (Entre Rios) Argentina, based in Buenos Aires She graduated in letters and is the author of seven books of poetry, receiving awards several times worldwide. She works as the World Manager of Educational and Social Projects of the Hispanic World Union of Writers and the UHE World Honorary President of the same institution Activa de la Sade, Argentine Society of Writers. She is a commissioner of honor in the executive cabinet IN THE EDUCATIONAL AND SOCIAL RELATIONS DIVISION, of the UNACCC SOUTH AMERICA ARGENTINA CHAPTER.

Essay from Lobar

Young Central Asian woman with a crown on her head standing outside in a flowing blue-green dress with a crown on her head. She's at some sort of exhibition, out on a lawn where there are tables showing off jewelry and colored cloths.
Lobar

Ulugbek treasure of Uzbek

People’s writer of Uzbekistan Odil Yaqubov, the owner of the “Friendship” and “El-Yurt” orders, won the name of the beloved creator of our people with his works of incomparable value. classified as “.Until now, the writer, who used to write on modern topics, now began to search for historical scenes in his imagination. He carefully studies many historical documents and sources related to the history of Ulugbek. At first, the writer wants to write a story about the tragic history of the library of Ulugbek. but he continues his work to cover this topic more widely and turns the story into a novel.Ulugbek is great for me not only because he was a famous scientist of the Middle Ages, but also because he was a scholar who experienced the worst tragedy in the history of our nation,” said our famous writer Chingiz Aitmatov. – I read it when I was 9 class. Because I studied in the Russian class, I rarely read the works of Uzbek writers. This novel made me fall in love with Uzbek literature.he fact that our grandfather Mirzo Ulug’bek is a master of knowledge in every field, and that he is even described as an astronomer and a king who ruled the country with justice until now I would like to quote sentences from the book that impressed me as proof of my words.

They say that there are two stars among the countless stars shining in the sky. When they approach, great people are born who can change the fate of mankind. What is the name of these stars? How many times during the last two thousand years, which great beings were born to those who came close to them during these happy moments? Then 8-year-old U’lugbek answered with his heart pounding again:

The names of the auspicious stars you mentioned are Zuhal and Mushtari. They approach once every eight hundred years. Therefore, they have approached three times in the last two and a half thousand years. The first time he approached, the great world conqueror Alexander the Great was born.

I will not be wrong if I say that these verses awaken a sense of pride in the hearts of every Uzbek child.