The Earth's Boundaries by Bakhtiyar Vahabzade (born 1925) From the beginning we daubed colors on the map To divide the world into many countries. The earth is one color everywhere-and yet Why did we break it into a hundred pieces? Every kind declared: "The world belongs to me." Over and over again, we split the land; But the earth was never girdled; It never shrank nor did it ever expand. From "Bakhtiyar Vahabzade. Poems, Short Stories and a Play", edited by Hadi Sultan-Qurraie, and translated by Talat Sait Halman. Indiana University Turkish Studies Publications: Bloomington, Indiana, 1998. Back to - Bakhtiyar Vahabzade Index Home | About Azeri | Learn Azeri | Arabic Script | Contact us © Azerbaijan International. Copyright since 2003. All rights reserved.