Land of honey

Bartholome 2022-01-20 08:01:12

Yesterday was the fragrance of birds and flowers

I picked half of the honey

The other half is left for the bees to spend the winter

I bring them to the market

Bought cheese and bananas

Mother ill in bed

Bananas are as soft as eggs

Just suitable for her lost tooth

I still have a flower headband

Although mother's eyes can't see

But I heard the sound of my makeup

Can't stop complimenting my beauty

I have been pursued by countless men

In this remote mountain village

I did not promise

And the kitten and Jackie, the puppy

Need care

One day a car came in

Dragging cattle, sheep, livestock, furniture, and iron sheets

And roaring machines and children

They are hungry

They are skinny

They are desperately grazing and growing

I keep beekeeping and nectar as always

Teach children the way

Tell them stories

Regret not having a baby

Dance with them and take the watermelon they sent

Mother sleeps with a sweet watermelon

The children continue to give birth like cows

Bees thrive in cracks in rocks and gaps in tree branches

Then the honey began to multiply in the beehive

Children crying against bites

Because the demand for sales is like the plague

Increasingly expensive

Half-leave and half-harvest become full-harvest

The bee greedily sips the last sip of its own saliva

After his death, he was buried in bottled honey

There are thousands of hungry

Killing after hunger

Departed after the killing

Baixue after leaving

My dance stops

My singing is silent

Mother died forever one night

The moon above makes a dark mockery

My never-born child has died long ago

There are few children I have taken care of for decades

Stone or stone

The split wood can keep warm

Jackie is still behind me

Tireless

I walk towards the last secret place

Open the stone and take out the last half of the honey

Give it to the puppies

I'm in the snow

Jackie's bark echoed in the valley

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Honeyland quotes

  • Hatidze Muratova: Take half, leave half.