TE16 Turkish Delight

Ten Poems

Gazel of Idylls

your eyes just left the rain as child as, as big as, as warm as

you must be town or a pomegranate may be granada, may be september, may be red

your body is the summer night of your soul or what else very idyll, very sea, very windy

you fell in love again like a child as if to me, as if ah! as if it can be

even love cannot fill the emptiness of some lovers so that praise, so that to you, so that june

if desire is asleep, soul wanders all naked gazel about this, sorrow about this, secret about this

your eyes just left the town as full as, as timid as, as loquacious as

go on! destroy new towns for our hearts from this love

(tr. by Gökçenur Ç.)

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