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should dive deeper to fully comprehend and
appreciate the national character and traditions
hidden in the spirit of his poems. Consider this:

My friend, in days without love
Even a slope feels like an uphill.
…I can recognize the grief in your face.
The sadness in your eyes
Reminds me of sadness of my own
That is followed by rain…

It is true that this example of a free verse poem
is not in traditional form. However, one cannot
miss national character in the spirit of these lines.
More specifically, the rhyming repetitions
encountered frequently in the original version
reminds of a garayli, a traditional Azerbaijani
form of the poem.
In the following lines, one can sense the
crossing of the poetic and hearty style with the
contemporary feelings and ideas:

We survived through grief and sadness
Is this life a meaningless journey?
Take Asli and Karam with you
And get back to us, World.

The main feature of Zakir’s poems is their
musicality, which is hard to explain, but easy to
feel. Moreover, I have been a longstanding
admirer of the uniqueness and the novelty of the
characters and expression style in his poems,
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