LOVE SET FIRE ON ME… 

The love has set fire on me, 
I burnt in sparkles, did you see? 
You can see the dance of fire, 
Won’t you come to rescue me? 
Or, are you afraid of fire? 
Can’t you come to me closer? 
I fell like sky into your world 
Which was quiet like the water. 
Dry and wet on fire now,
 Here, we burning face to face. 
We are growing beautifully
 In this awesome fireplace. 


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. Currently lives in Switzerland. Married, mother of five children. It was not possible to publish poems and translations written by the poet in the next ten years.