Ankara Poems - Poems about Ankara

...Reading fridge magnets; surprised how interesting, the world is when stamped into rubber decals. Rome, Ankara, both Buda and Pest. Watching a colorful rolling diorama, pictographs tumbling over......Read the rest...

...Alfred out fishing Alfred, the pianist, who insists he is not my father, And I went out fishing caught a few when I gutted one of them We discovered a ring that Alfred said he had given to my mo......Read the rest...

...I can’t tell it all The joy and sorrow we endure together We can’t forget the devil who stole our clothes and made us Angora rabbit in Ankara Tavsani. I remember our nakedness that was showcase ......Read the rest...

...Reading my fridge magnets, I’m surprised how interesting the world is when stamped into rubber decals. Rome, Ankara, both Buda and Pest. I watch an oscilloscope between my ears, the spikes ar......Read the rest...

...* This poem was written for a contest originally, but was used by Professor Anne-Marie Thornton of Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey, to teach her WAR POETRY class in the spring semester of 2017. ......Read the rest...

...From a balcony in Ankara Exotic birds swoon Pigeons sit on roof tops Awaiting on the moon Traffic noises hum Children’s voices clash Banging pots and pans For the evening dinner rush Crock......Read the rest...

...But what of Aysin? She'd be here by three. What seemed to me the perfect metaphor (young Ankara was her, old "Stamboul", me) was not an easy drive - five hours, and more! It's midnight in m......Read the rest...

...I felt a bit like Humbert, or John Proctor, an ageing vulture drawn to fresh young flesh. She was a pretty, witty Turkish doctor (so, not exactly plundering the creche!) She seemed to like ......Read the rest...

...Her small angelic face ... Once a place where broad smiles bloomed like butterflies on marigolds, is streaked with the furrows that countless tears have etched into the layers of dust and di......Read the rest...

...A lark smiles and chats With sunrays in Ankara Hunter shoots it dead Vengeance in a truck Mows down people in Berlin In Christmas shopping Pain in pink ribbons Thorns in vengeful souls st......Read the rest...

...By a stone near Saqqara Sand blown from the Sahara Mixes with dust from Ankara Particularly near a pyramid it peculiarly disappears amid Two ascetics on a pilgrimage They observe the stra......Read the rest...

...Give us this day our daily… I do not even have to move my bottom much remote control in hand I choose what they call news just the old stuff in new wrappers blown apart by endless bombing greed......Read the rest...

...The Unredeemed There are flashes when my liberal views falter and I ask myself, these people like Breivik and the killers in Ankara and Paris would it not be better to shoot them down like rabb......Read the rest...

...A stable plate on two different trays historically embracing the celebrated words of Caesar. Home to the Hittites of old, St. Nicholas and the Antioch’s monument, and a fine developing con......Read the rest...

...for The Beloved, a night at Nedjima Bar (Ankara, Turkey) … hypnosis shattered by atomic jiggling, salivation of song on your brow, channeled chaos of body, spastic sound, tantrum of dark delight, un......Read the rest...