Memoirs of the contemporaries
Broke new ground
S.Eraliev broke new ground in the Kyrgyz poetry and not only Kyrgyz but also I think and all of Turkic literature.
Now I have such a delight one I have to hand out for people and feel the full a price on joy in literature. I would like to distribute S.Eraliev’s poems now of the rows, of the letters, bit by bit to all who truly loves highest poetry. I want right now to recite these poems so that more people hear a new voice of ancient Kyrgyz poetry.
The meeting with Suyunbay Eraliev turned out to be very encouraging:
«Like a good hand of hope
pressed the syringe with the blood of the earth,
and the drops are gone
straight to the stars. »
«To the stars» – this is how the Kyrgyz poet called his poem, marked with the stamp of courage and freshness.
The freshness and novelty of this poem is in a peculiar perception, or rather, in an original experience of the Cosmos. This is not a heroic cosmogony, but something purely emotional, intimate. Here is not the harsh Mother Earth, but the Mother Earth, in painful doubt, pressing the lyric hero to her chest; not cold night lights, but stars-children’s balls, gazing with trusting eyes, falling like flocks of starlings on the waves of virgin soil.