Asqar Qosimov

Asqar Qosimov is one of the poets who lived a short life but shone like a lightning bolt in our literature. He became known to the nation as a sensitive poet. The sincerity, naturalness, simplicity, and clear folk tones of his early poems quickly found favor with poetry fans. He loved to speak the truth in poetry and to bring his feelings to life in varied tones and vivid images. He was a poet of free thoughts.

Biography

Capturing small life scenes and fleeting moments to draw deep poetic generalizations was one of Asqar's favorite poetic methods. Giving deep life and philosophical meaning to a poem through passionate exclamations and powerful questions, and conveying it with warmth and excitement to the reader's heart, held a leading place in the poet's work.
Asqar Qosimov is one of the poets who lived a short life and flashed like lightning in our literature.
He was born in Tashkent in 1946. After graduating from the Faculty of Philology of the current National University, he worked as an editor at the Gafur Gulom Literature and Art Publishing House.
Asqar Qosimov passed away prematurely in 1985. His fiery lines and hot poems continue to live on.
Activities

His poetry collections such as "Favvora" (1974), "Moviy osmon" (1977), "Zamin ko'rki" (1979), "Tolbargak" (1980), "Ko'nglim kabutari" (1982), and "Sirlar" (1985) were published. His dramas titled "Obida" ("Turdi Farog'iy") and "Sirlar" were announced. Asqar Qosimov was also well-known as a skilled translator. He skillfully translated the tragedies of the great Greek playwrights Aeschylus ("Prometheus Bound") and Euripides ("Medea") into the Uzbek language and published them as separate books.
Asqar Qosimov became known to the nation as a sensitive poet in the 70s of the last century. The sincerity, naturalness, simplicity, and clear folk tones of his early poems quickly became popular with poetry fans. Especially, his "Yor-yor" poem, written in the spirit of folk songs and melancholic tones, which begins with:
Today to the neighbor's garden
A bride arrives, yor-yor.
I have no way to go,
I lament in longing, -
became a work that many love to read.
Asqar Qosimov loved to speak the truth in poetry and to bring his feelings to life with varied tones and vivid images. He was a poet of free thought.
During the time when Asqar created with passion, it was not possible to freely speak of the heart's pain or openly state the true situation of the people and society. The ruling ideology strictly demanded that creative people promote false Soviet ideas, and thoughts that did not fit into this framework were suppressed. Only a few poets tried to express their dissatisfaction with these pressures wrapped in various metaphors and similes. This required great boldness and creative courage. Asqar belongs to such brave poets.
Capturing small life scenes and fleeting moments to draw deep poetic generalizations was one of Asqar's favorite poetic methods. For example, he writes in the poem "Uzilgan chechaklar":
Is it a rose upon the water, or a flower upon the water
That has surrendered its will to the current?
Is it truly a river, is it truly water
That has swirled a bunch of flowers in the whirlpool?
O grasses staring blankly on the shore!
Speak,
If you have a tongue!
The flowers sway, unable to bear the shore...
Is it possible that a flower is so despised?
Such passionate exclamations and powerful questions used to give deep life and philosophical meaning to a poem and convey it with warmth and excitement to the reader's heart hold a leading place in Asqar's work.