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Hadaa Sendoo is a poet, essayist, critic and publisher. His poems have been translated into more than 40 languages and he has published more than 20 books of poetry, recent poetry books are: Der Wind (2022, in German, Marburg Book), Line of heaven (2023, in Mongolian), and The Love that Came to Me (2023, in Mongolian). He has won the Poet of the Millennium Award (India 2000); The Mongolian Writers’ Union Prize (Mongolia 2009); The Pinnacle of Achievement Award for poetry (USA 2010); Visionary Poet Award (Canada 2015); and Modern Literature Renaissance Award (Egypt 2019); World Peace Prize (Africa 2019). In 2006, he founded the groundbreaking World Poetry Almanac, which he continues to edit. Since 1991, he has lived in Ulaanbaatar, the capital of Mongolia. Hadaa Sendoo is recognized as a great poet and he has been ranked in the List of the Greatest Poets of All Time (Ranker Books, USA).
Nightingale
I will not sing for a corrupt country
And those despicable soul
And even the destroyers of the earth
My song is only for the blue night
And the noble souls of all times
And the silence of dawn
The Wound
Mother Earth’s sadness
With a kind wounds
Cold is the wound of the times
And love is my wound
Voice
At this moment
I must break the old me and
Shape a new me
I’ll break it
And see myself clearly
At this moment
I am the bitter fruit of grievance
Grafted onto another tree
It is neither in full bloom nor fragrant
I smash its hypocrisy and ambiguity
At this moment
I have to break the fake me
Back to the real me
I’ll break it
And a whole me will be born
At this moment
I want to build a rainbow bridge in space
I’m going to write a poem to please the gods
The world has a pair of desperate eyes
The wind is my voice, and the shaman knows it.
