Best Nazim Poems

...The April morning's quiet
and so is the November.
Wherever people outnumber trees
or the dominant cover type
is unquiet. Nothing wrong with that.
Walt got it right, and Jane Jacobs:
the city is......

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...Nida and Nazim, the newlyweds noticed the newmoon.
A big brown bat banished them from boon.
The hubby and wife headed back inside for their honeymoon.
The mystery of night brought them out again
......

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...Turkish Poetry Translations II

Çanakkale Sehitlerine
"For the Çanakkale Martyrs"
by Mehmet Akif Ersoy
loose English translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Was there ever anything lik......

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...A group of ladies by the stand pipe
While the tassa men play their tune
This is the lawa morning
I getting marry this afternoon

A bunch of foreigners clapping
And their mom drinking coconut water
Th......

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...Thinking of you is pretty, hopeful, 
It is like listening to the most beautiful song 
From the most beautiful voice on earth... 
But hope is not enough for me any more, 
I don't want to listen to......

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...Arabic:  (Alam) meaning "world" or "universe"

A character of a madman has a role in the play. 
Henceforth, the casting was done,
Alam, the madman, to mentor in the acting,
the wanderer in the g......

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...Woman (Poem)
Nazim ZarSinner

             I have
       always been
     thinking about
    you, O beautiful
    creature of God,                            your
      your beauties,        ......

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...I Wonder! (Ghazal)
Nazim ZarSinner

(Each line contains 13 syllables)

Aft' irksome work they were sleeping in graves, I wonder!
Why the messenger could not free the slaves? I wonder!

Where ......

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...Longing, dream and prayer is that
     Icy streams of your eyes be mine
Long soft hair spread on my shoulders
     Years of darkness want you to shine!

Love is utmost care for someone,
    I'm......

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