May it Be Good
"It is told everywhere that the summer is over," says Ülkü Tamer in his poem "Summer is Over". Summer is over; poetry is not over!…
TRAIN ARTICLES
Footsoldier
Should I say the verse or the sentence, my grandma said half of it and me the other half. On my way to the army,…
Noon
Fire, water, air, earth… Does life consist of these four things only? As you live, as you write, as you set out on a new…
Forest
"We all work in the same forest." It's a line I don't forget why I said, but I don't know why I should remember. It…
Pomegranate
The beauty of the beginning. The bustle of preparation. It's the rush of taking the road. The enthusiasm for the reason what appears to be…
Blue
“All air was a bird”. All day was light. All words were a poem. All poem was love. All the world was a dream... All…
Lyric
Provisions are the poem of the one who sets off on a journey. They are the necessity of the journey. They are the joy of…
Wing
The human will be aligned with birds when complete. To be human, maybe, will only then mean to be human. Now we are tired. We…
Gesture
Let’s say that I said “journey is a style of a gesture.” Whose gesture is it toward whom? Passenger’s gesture toward journey or the opposite?…
Ithaka
I wonder if it is really how it is written in books or guides, is Ithaka an island among the Ionian Islands, the one that…
Whistle
There is this thing called road conditions. There are road songs, road rhymes. There are also some people like me, who call these actually the…
The Grasshopper
There are two g’s (g and ğ) in the Turkish alphabet. Each one is softer than the other. One is at the beginning of August…
Life
Choice of words makes a difference sometimes. I am not talking about loss or gain of meaning but difference... When someone mentions being alive we…