DEEP IN THE HEART… 

Deep in heart there’s echoing burning voice, 
Do not hide it, just open it and rejoice. 
God almighty understand us where you zoom, 
Anyways, you will face it what fetches doom. 
Let that dull stars gossip you let them backbite, 
They are only ugly teeth of giggling night. 
Oh, my dear, face to the God at any rate, 
Because he’s the owner of the workshop of fate.

Shamsiya Khudoynazarova Turumovna (February 15, 1973) was born in Uzbekistan. Studied at the Faculty of Journalism of Tashkent State University (1992-1998). She took first place in the competition of young republican poets (1999). Four collections of poems have been published in Uzbekistan: “Leaf of the Heart” (1998), “Roads to You” (1998), “The Sky in My Chest” (2007), “Lovely Melodies” (2013). She wrote poetry in more than ten genres. She translated some Russian and Turkish poets into Uzbek, as well as a book by Yunus Emro. She lived as a political immigrant with her family for five years in Turkey and five years in Ukraine and currently lives in Switzerland. She is married and the mother of five children.