Monthly Archives: January 2023

How Many Years Have Gone By

They mustn’t ask me, Make me talk about my troubles, I keep them to myself, Brood over them. If tears fall from my eyes, Night and day, If the world has gone dark, There must be a reason. How many … Continue reading

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Rain

The little garden has Two spindly trees. Water Has created A meadow here, Entering the Branches that hide no secrets, Watering the sap, The diseased roots, With everyday strings of Melancholy, Tying them to windows, Washing the diseased pot plants … Continue reading

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1945

Come from centuries away, reach out and clasp my hands, If not, the child within me will too be helpless. Children fed with anger are lonely, Their hopes come from flowers, their sorrows from history. Like you, like me, they … Continue reading

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Confusion

In the middle of the night, my soul is Incoherent, beaten. My life Exists outside it, Waiting for daylight that will never come. And I, in the night, with the night, Worn out, weary. Constanine P. Cavafy (1863-1933). Karışıklık.translated from … Continue reading

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Poem Written Waiting for Spring

We’ll just wait to see that day, One morning, we’ll see the green buds. The sky, the horizon, the sea are getting ready, The spring of springs will pour forth one morning. It will bring only joyful days. By the … Continue reading

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Sun Touching Love

Some love ends, starts again, Some bitter-sweet tastes stay in the mouth. A sun that touches love does not easily set. The thousand candles of its candelabra are lit, The windows of its celestial palace catch fire. And one summer … Continue reading

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