Poem
Selahattin Yolgiden
Athens
I see myself dyingwherever
I turn my eyes
this is the time
the evening cries on its mother's lap
tell him everything;
songs are the daughters
of the long past,
instruments are combs among those long hairs.
what if you remember your grandma
as you wash your face with the whitest houses
by a blue sea, who says
“don’t die before you see the sea
in which your grandpa had washed himself”
remnants of my life
continually remembered
where should I bury myself?
Atina
Atina
nereye baksamöldüğünü görüyorum
kendimin.
akşamın ağladığı saattir
annesinin kucağında
anlat ona;
şarkılar uzak zamanların
kızlarıdır,
çalgılar uzun saçlarında tarak.
bembeyaz evlerle yıkarken yüzünü
mavi bir denizin kıyısında
babaannen gelse aklına;
“ölme görmeden, dedenin
yıkandığı denizi.”
yıkıntıları ömrümün
durmadan hatırlanan
nereye gömsem kendimi?
From: Unuttuğum Limanlar
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Athens
I see myself dyingwherever
I turn my eyes
this is the time
the evening cries on its mother's lap
tell him everything;
songs are the daughters
of the long past,
instruments are combs among those long hairs.
what if you remember your grandma
as you wash your face with the whitest houses
by a blue sea, who says
“don’t die before you see the sea
in which your grandpa had washed himself”
remnants of my life
continually remembered
where should I bury myself?
From: Unuttuğum Limanlar
Athens
I see myself dyingwherever
I turn my eyes
this is the time
the evening cries on its mother's lap
tell him everything;
songs are the daughters
of the long past,
instruments are combs among those long hairs.
what if you remember your grandma
as you wash your face with the whitest houses
by a blue sea, who says
“don’t die before you see the sea
in which your grandpa had washed himself”
remnants of my life
continually remembered
where should I bury myself?
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