Best Turks Poems


Premium Member The Rest Is Silence

I left her behind
emaciated
I left her
dying
I left her
I left her
I wanted to die there with her
there in the desert
where I left my mother
there where the stench of the dead and the dying 
filled the air
I left her
my other children dragging me on
the soldiers shouting
threatening..theatening
I had to go on...for the others

I left her
my little girl
who was too weak to speak
too weak to cry
my little girl
whom I smothered
knowing it would be quick
not wanting night to call
the animals to crawl
over her still living body
not wanting her to hear
the death wail of the old and frail
all around
I smothered her
and kept on walking
not hearing
not seeing
not smelling
not living
not breathing

I left her
I left my heart
I left my dreams
I left my tomorrow
and every yesterday
every memory
every hope
of a better day

I left her
and in that starless night
there in the desert
naked and bleeding
starving
shivering
I knew....

"the rest is silence."

Eileen Manassian

"The Rest is Only Silence" is from Shakespeare's Play...Hamlet. I, however, will not be silent about the Armenian Genocide. This is in memory of the 1.5 million Armenians who lost their lives in the Genocide of 1915.Though this is a fictitious write, the events depicted did happen during the Armenian Genocide in 1915 by the Ottoman Turks. One million and a half Armenians were marched into the desert in what has come to be known as the Death March. April 24 marks 101 years since that event. Not all countries have recognized the genocide. Unfortunately, America is one of them. 

If you want to read an account of those days, read The Sandcastle Girls. Read of how woman were tied to stakes as the soldiers rode past on their horses and decapitated them. Read of how the orphaned children were gathered at night and put in caves and burned alive. Read of how the woman marched naked...their wounds festering, their hair matted...almost inhuman. Read of how women committed suicide rather suffer rape while others disfigured themselves to go unnoticed. History cannot deny the genocide. If justice is not served here...it will be....one day. God told Cain..."the blood of your brother Abel is crying out to me." The blood of these martyrs cries out today for recognition.

Reject the Self-Hatred, Part Ii

...They proclaimed that we ‘oppressed women,’
it’s the refrain of loud femenists,
forgetting that before birth control
nature gave us little choice in this.
That before we had technology,
when life meant brutal, physical work,
that there just weren’t all that many jobs
physically weaker women could work.
They forget that the woman’s franchise
arose on America’s frontier,
that we blazed the path for suffrage,
their equality started right here.
Now why would a nation do all that
if they cared so little for females?
If we sought to be patriarchal
then I dare say the strategy failed.
And yet the left keeps raging about
rights which women have been long endowed,
Why should we buy all their self-hatred
when there’s so much for which to be proud?

And worst of all these fools like to claim,
that we’ve learned nothing, it’s all the same,
which I think is a sure sign that they
have something dreadful wrong in their brains.
We look at our mistakes all the time,
we brood endless on our sins and scars,
America lacks no self-reflection,
if anything we take it too far!
We get so obsessed with all our wrongs
that we think they drown out all the right,
we selfishly think it’s all our fault,
then of the truth we sadly lose sight.
Many cultures can’t ask such questions,
ask the Turks about past genocides,
or see if Communist China will
own up to all the Uighurs that died.
You don’t see many Japanese kids
who know about the rape of Nanking,
yet every American does know
that Wounded Knee was a horrible thing.
Why should we regret a culture that
tries to learn rather than disavow?
Our growing should not bring self-hatred,
to be honest, it should make us proud.

In the end, these issues are smokescreens,
thrown up to keep good people off track,
the left wants us all to hate ourselves
because self-hating folk rarely fight back.
There’s no logic behind what they hate,
hell, it changes hour-to-hour,
what unifies all these self-hatreds
is whether it will bring them power.
That’s really what’s behind all of this,
like some grand Machiavellian scheme,
to make free people into peasants
they first must be cut down and demeaned.
In truth, they don’t like Americans,
they don’t like people who stand unbowed,
so reject their vile self-hatred,
embrace all the things that make us proud.

Premium Member Kamala's No Creampuff

Whoa! My cabinet's 'not diverse enough!'*
This identity stuff is really tough!
  Greeks, Poles, Nepalese
  Turks, Finns, Congolese
You do it, Kamala ~ You're no creampuff





_________________________________ 
*'Biden's Cabinet not Diverse Enough'
  was the top story on Chicago news
  stations at 5:30 p.m., Dec. 09, 2020.


Bersheba Battle W W 1

BERSHEBA BATTLE  W.W.1

Horses sensed the coming battle,
Heard sabres rattling to be free.
Fed a nose bag of oats, and the rattle, 
Of bayonets on the rifles, old Brumby
Off they are now, at a good trot. 
Lining up for the Turks to see,
Held in check bridles curbed, or not,
Cantered, galloped now recklessly.
Galloping over the open ground 
Yelling cursing so merrily 
In amongst the Turks they bound
Slashing shooting with such bravery.
So the Turkish trench is now taken
Old horse got a drink this you see
Droving job with prisoners a making
Charge of the light brigade with me
Don Johnson

Oats for strength and spirit with a horse,
do you ride well enough to try it...

Accidental Coffee

There was a man named Kaldi who herded sheep
He fed them berries in Ethiopia but they could not sleep
He then told his friends and they tried them, too
Soon everyone worked harder and said goodbye to curfews

Not 600 years later, it had spread through the Arabian Peninsula
Then Turkey, Egypt, Persia, and Syria
There was a terrible time when the Turks invaded Hungary
But rumor has it that is when they brought coffee

From 1520 on the story goes
Coffee spilled through Europe and put people on their toes
But many people in the church they had their concerns
They called it Satanic and in hell coffee drinkers would burn

But Pope Clement VIII he gave the bitter drink his blessing
Then in 1670s London King Charles II took to his own messing
There were fears of coffee meetings and political uprisings
But by the end of the 1600s Kings Arms of Manhattan cafe was jiving

It was brought by the Dutch to New Amsterdam
People preferred tea and beer but would give coffee a chance
Decades went by and they sipped, worked, and danced
But by 1773 something forever changed the fate

Of not just coffee but the colonies' reason to celebrate
King George III went wild with tea taxes
Revolutionaries rebelled by the masses
They had the Boston Tea Party and then the war

America was born and it opened a door
Not just for freedom but the bitter, once Satanic drink
It changed the way people socialize and the way that they think
From Ethiopia to Turkey to England and the US we have Kaldi to thank and our minds to impress

An Ode To Turkeys

An Ode to Turkeys
     By Dane Smith-Johnsen

I
There was a time, year one thousand A.D
U.S. turkeys faced a brand new plight.
Usefulness seen.
Native American's hunting delight. 
The white meat of a turkey is quite lean.
So much healthier than man knew before,
Nothing one ever could say,
In any way,
Would make Americans free turkeys anymore.

II
Thanksgiving comes and goes.
Wild turkey gobbling slows.
Ben Franklin watched their plight.
Nominated, though laughter did flare.
Turkeys beneath the moonlight
Were beautiful out there.
Ben suggested, turks as the nation's bird.
But eagles know, it was not so.
And turks in history endured this nations birth.

III
Although wild turkeys can run fast and fly,
Toms might in spring be found.
Fluffing, dancing around.
Caruncle and waddle shiny, bright red
Courting the hens, showing off, prancing, not dead.  
Although turkeys fly strong,
The hunters by day kept watch in the fields.
Until, Old Tom, no more sang passion's song
And hens under bushes sat on eggs long.
When chicks hatched out and played their mother shields.
But on Thanksgiving Day...
Run away!


Note: Carolyn, thanks for the video suggestion.  It is very funny.  I decided to post the link 
here.  The HISTORICAL one is found at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1213z9KHNs  
(TIME HEALS ALL: We do LOVE you, MOTHER ENGLAND... from you we were BORN.)
The HYSTERICAL one is found at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnLyqBtU_F8

ENJOY the FUN!


The Medieval Glory

The era has many glorious phases and faces
when it began on the fall of the Roman empire
Age of Darkness seized war and fire
and time stirred diverse cultures and races

Different flavors were tasted at the end of the story
Commerce and knowledge became Europe's glory
but division of Germanic tribes was Roman's fall
and many emperor’s responded to religion's call

From Clovis to Louis was Christianism
Monks lives and prays in their monasteries
Socio-political systems such as manorialism and feudalism
gave way for peace and order to avoid miseries

The knights are nobilities that needs to pass every ordeal
with passion, poise, bravery, and their will 
to fight for their king, their land, and their brothers
no matter how far or how hard the battle offers

In closing of another chapter in history
the Church plans to retrieve their Holy Land
from the Muslim Turks they'll fight hand in hand
Pope Urban II leads the Crusade that led to tragedy

Children were used to touch hearts of stones
but it was the road for them to loose their soul and bones
There were nine crusades that were executed
but none of which did the land exalted

The effects are the weakening of feudalism
and the Church was shadowed with criticism
but it paved way for the innovation of agricultural technology
from conserving water to wind energy

The rise of the trade industry
strengthen the European economy
Fares are conducted by the feudal lords
traders are selling foods, arts, and swords

Truly, the Medieval Time will leave a trace
in history and in every human race
It became the cornerstone of the eras after
A foundation for another stone to be smoother

Word Association(Poem#3-High School Years)

depression
sad
bad
angry
misfits
skeleton 
undead 
dead 
alive 
mowhak 
Rancid 
punk
Ramons
guitar 
violin 
Anne Rice 
interview 
with
the 
vampire 
Lestat 
Tome Cruise 
Jeckle/Hyde 
musical 
singing 
stage
globe 
world 
Russia 
hammer
red
communism 
China 
Mao 
white 
red 
blood 
Vlad 
Turks 
Muslims 
hate
9/11
sadness 
depression 
angry
unhappy 
alone 
hell
heaven 
God
devil 
demon 
exorcist 
omen
fortune telling 
tarot 
Celtic 
barbarians 
Rome 
Italians 
Godfather 
Mafia 
violence 
death

The Escape From the Turkish Slavery

The Escape from the Turkish Slavery
(Ukrainian historic folk song)

There broke into the Tartar sprites,
And they captured my daughter, nice,
Marusyna, my daughter, dear,
I remained with one son in fear.
And there came others- my son was enslaved,
And a widow, a poor orphan, I remained.
The third time, they took me too, an old soul...
... a Turk took me to the service,
I began to toil and slave
Serving the foe every day.
The daughter didn’t recognize her nurse
Having given her the works, the worst:
With the hands- to spin the yarn, fine,
With the little feet- to lull the child,
To watch the flock- with the eyes…
They found themselves in one place
All three meeting face to face.
When the daughter was recognized by the mother
And, when also confessed the brother…
They were united with one another.
Then the daughter began to tell the Turk,
That's my brother, this is my mother,
Then, the Turk began to trust them.
He entrusted them with all his goods.
They did everything, not to delude
Thinking, dreaming of their home.
When the Turk and daughter were going to the ball,
They handed the keys from the houses, all;
The son and the mother were taking the golden keys,
The souls of the slaves from the cellars to release,
Saddling the horses to start their way
To travel back home again.
Oh they were crossing the Danube, Dunahj,
The Turks, low-natured, were on a catch-ride.
On the other bank, they shouted:
"Oh Ivan, Ivan!
You know and you know,
And take the infusion of wormwood,
And, you will know even better for good! "
Chieftain Ivan Korsun began to narrate:
"I crossed the Danube River -
Denied the enemy forever! "

(Translation from Ukrainian into English by Ivan Petryshyn)
The Escape from the Turkish Slavery

Premium Member If Only You Believe - the Balassi Style

~If You Only Believe~
 (Balassi)


 Jesus is the only way
 For salvation any day
 He can forgive all your sin
 If only you believe
 Salvation you'll receive
 A new life you can begin
 Jesus can make you brand-new
 You can give Satan his due
 And in Jesus' name you can win.


 Dorian Petersen Potter
 aka ladydp2000
 copyright@2013


 December.10.2016


So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
1 Corinthians 13:13 (NIV)

-“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
John 3:16 (NIV)

- Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer
Romans 12: 12 ( NIV )

-The Lord will fight for you, and you have only to be silent.”
 Exodus  14: 13  ( NIV )


~Author's Notes:

 The Balassi Stanza is a form or style attributed to Bálint Balassi (1554-1594) who is probably Hungary's best known Renaissance poet. His work included poetry about his battles with the Turks and his love poems to a woman he called Julia. His poetry was known for the richness of its forms and was a blend of Turkish, Polish and Hungarian folk poetry.

This form or style may be  presented as  a three-line stanza too.

The Climate Changed

The Climate Changed
 
"You were the sun
Once I was perihelion
Now you are aphelion!"
Sang the perihelion of planet earth
In low baritones
 
What is the perihelion of planet earth to do now?
A pointless POINT
Wandering in a void
 
Year 2021
The planet earth is all but
Gone`
 
The last climate change summit
Was in year 2020!
At the top of the mahogany table
Sat Emperor Trumpet!
Trumpet meant a big fart,
In Cambridge dictionary
But its meaning had changed now
It meant the last Emperor.
 
Back to my story:
At the top of mahogany
Table sat Emperor Trumpet!
Climate change is a fiction
A rumour, a treason
Spread by my foes
The heathens:
The Jews, the Turks, the Hispanics, the other sex what I call whoes
The English the French the Democrats
Let us teach a lesson to all those
Heathens
Let us ignore their pleas
 
The Trumpetlings who sat all around him cheered
Twisting their crimson necks!
And serpantine, slime green tongues!
 
They lined up to kiss his ruby ring
Sat on his crow like finger:
The middle finger which became a conundrum
For ornithologists all around the globe
For years to come
All the while the great fart hissed
And twisted his serpantine tongue
Poison green in hue!
Spitting slime
all the time!
 
So the great fart was sleeping in his feather bed
(A loud snore);
The bed feathered by his slaves: the Turks the Hispanics the democrats the English
The other sex what he called whoes,
When a great molten came down and
Swollowed the planet earth;
In one big gulp
The humans, the animals the trees
The fine bridges, the intricate monuments;
All but gone now!
 
The sole survivor is a perihelion;
Lonely as a lost lamb,
Singing melancholy songs
To her old flame
 
Her greatest love once!
 
"You were the sun
Once I was perihelion
Now you are aphelion"
 
The only love song to
have survived!

Premium Member Gallipoli

Across troop ship bow the cliffs drew nearer
  and into harm’s way mighty battalions drove -
men and mule upon cold waves of terror
  stormed the beachhead landings on Anzac Cove.

The digger Dogs of War unleashed again
  an Expeditionary Force by sea,
in hallowed ground of brave infantrymen 
  lie the bones of Empires in Gallipoli.

Great southern blue, red and white standard stars
  in battle hymn out of Commonwealth port,
where the flame of liberty fiercely chars
  every bleeding heart whose sons fell and fought.

A hundred years ago soldiers in a world at war
  battled on a foreign shore
  for King ‘n Country, God ‘n Corps.
            The battle was lost, the Great War won,
their sacrifice laid bare, their duty done.
  We march at dawn for mate and vet 
  and to remember the fallen Lest We Forget!
              
Sappers, farmers, salesmen, drovers and clerks -
  young men and boys their slouch hats wore,
and in steep gullies and ravines fought the Turks
  like when on the velt they fought the Boer.
                         
In muddy trench and bunker riflemen joining
  charged the lines on Ottoman ancient land,
loud shellfire through dead night and dawning
  fell in great battle Anzac’s finest stand!

On Lone Pine, Dead Man’s Ridge, Chunuk Bair
  the battlefield told a colony’s tale,
beyond those cliffs soon would her bugles blare
  in Palestine, Fromelles and Passchendaele.

A hundred years ago soldiers in a world at war
  battled on a foreign shore
  for King ‘n Country, God ‘n Corps.
            The battle was lost, the Great War won,
their sacrifice laid bare, their duty done.
  We march at dawn for mate and vet
  and to remember the fallen Lest We Forget!
 
Raise the flag and let us honour the slew                 
  whose battle is over - the glory and the ghost
of those men of valour in distant graves who
  stood their ground and stood their post!


                 Written: April 2015

Premium Member Istanbul

This famous city of antiquity
had its name changed in 1930.
We once called it Constantinople.
Today, it is known as Istanbul.
People located here in North America,
see it on the map bridging Europe and Asia.
Once capital city of the Byzantines,
it has witnessed many bloody battle scenes.
This is the citadel the Fourth Crusade raided.
Because of this, they were excommunicated.
This is a city rich in culture and history.
The Turks took it from the Greeks in 1453.
Does the name change seem as one of many quirks?
Do you want to know why?  Just ask any of the Turks.

Free Cee Here Is To You Cj a Songstress Suprmem

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           SMOKE ‘EM IF YOU BOTTOM

I’m  just a young girl who’s ripe for the pickin’
But momma always cautioned me to simply say no
I can shake it with a wiggle and things could get clickin’
But momma always said to protect what I got below
      REPRISE: (slightly different melody perhaps???)

Yeah I got what all those crazy young men crave
And I don’t mind much what they have in mind
but momma also told me that I should behave
and protect at all costs what my body bares behind
     (return to original melody)
So I shake what God gave me with pride and a price
And the cost is too high for any of these young turks
But momma always cautioned me that I should be nice
And not consort with just any John, Joe or jerks
                  Reprise:
Because I’m just a young girl who’s ripe for the pickin’
But Momma always emphasized, “girl, simply say no”
I can shake it with a wiggle and things could get clickin’
But momma always said to protect what I got below

So watch as I wiggle by with a wink of my eye (having a bit of trouble w/this line)
And shake my tempting and taunting little bottom
But when I am done singing you dudes’ll need a cigarette
So my momma says, “boys, smoke ‘em if you got ‘em
         REPEAT WITH A FLOURISH
Yeah now my momma says, “all you pretty little boys 
beleaguered by her bottom
……………………smoke ‘em if you got ‘emmmmmmm!”
 © 2013 copyright PHREEPOETREE……~free cee! ~

The Dollar Blind

What can you pay, to kill a duck
a pheasant, for the moment's blind
this archetype of sport confirm
my inner being to remind!

The song "somebody's mother" sign
the docket, yet the pride's incline
to jackets, road gear, orange hats
and vests, the docket must be fine!

My argument's not about food,
know certain trail marks understood
but wall to wall, the interlude
of creatures carcasses exude!

At just one truck stop, not intrude
more now of colored waters good,
the bubble up, the fast upgrade
it's energy, that buys the trade!

Is this our option to feel good
the conquering of nature's spirit,
I watch the ducks land on the lakes
and colors glistening, revere it!

It's hunting time, marching to glean
what's left of nature, guns just hoard
all life becoming beauties trade
in flowers, berries, purple glades!

Let these the seasons have their roll
I nourish once more the encore
the conservation in control
wildlife to wander, their time o'er!

Still places where the signs stand out
"No Hunting", "Private" and the like,
I know that even I'll be safe
In Spring, or Summer, Autumn's hike!

For that donation, to all else
I take a moment, reconcile
no gun wear waiting on my shelf
just ornaments of creatures while!

Would donate "Hope", the Dollar blind
still hides the feelings I revile
I guess I'll fast a turn and pray
Turks, Pheasants, Geese to reconcile!

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