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Hadaa Sendoo


Hadaa Sendoo (1961) is a poet and translator of international renown. He has lived in Ulaanbaatar, capital of Mongolia since 1991. He has won awards for poetry in India, the USA, Canada, Greece, China, and Russia, including the Mongolian Writers’ Union Prize. Since 1989, he has published 15 books of poetry. Sendoo Hadaa’s influence transcends national and ethnic borders and he is recognized as a great poet of the 21th century. In 2006, he founded the ground-breaking World Poetry Almanac, which he continues to edit. From 1998, he is a member of the Mongolian Writers Union.



100 million light years of a dream

I know I myself

Will have turned a page

I will stay in place

And the body will

Officially bid farewell to the soul

Then go back to the grass

The world has suffered too much, like me

but I wish you’ll meet a good man

And believe that love can always warm

The cold on earth

If you sing out sounds, they should be like Mongolian folk songs

Sadness without weeping.

And my epitaph, it’s destined to remain in my lines of poetry

Hypocritical inscription; it, too, cannot be compared with a few lines of tears

Of the wanderer who returns home

In the years of sorrow afterwards

I will still stand as a tree in the wind

If night is filled with lightning, thought is such as the house of God

If freedom is bread, a poem is as pure honey

Rewriting It

With a broken tip of the pen

my tears

write grief in July

And years, like dust raised by horseshoes

no matter whether I live or commit suicide

are all like a flaw that becomes a poem

Today, I rewrite it

For this drop of blood on my finger

and the world's trembling ink

are like the morning dew –

a condensation of my luck

Daybreak

At daybreak, when you came

Dewdrops were birthing too

The paling sky brought forth quivering life

I wait for my war horse, he’s bolted

I’m left walking barefoot

Through the towering stillness of the night

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