Long Bey Poems

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 like the Bosphorus war??
The earth’s mightiest armies pressing Marmara,
Forcing entry between her mountain passes
To a...

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Our lives and our time
Fired useless
Into the air
Toy cap gun shots
Those winter palaces unstormed
No tax offices ransacked
Where is utopia I asked
And no-one knew
They looked at me with pity
As if I still talked
To an imaginary friend
At...

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A dream is a wish the heart makes,
And the moment I saw you
My heart wished you to be mine
So to say that you are my dream
Would be merely stating the truth,
But only in it=s rawest,...

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Yahya Kemal Beyatli translations

Yahya Kemal Beyatli (1884-1958) was a Turkish poet, editor, columnist and historian, as well as a politician and diplomat. Born born Ahmet Âgâh, he wrote under the pen names Agâh Kemal, Esrar,...

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The drum is sounding
From Queens in New York
Stretching to the horns of America
And the horns of Africa
Hear them applause
They call it the Trump drum of triumph
I sat on my chair of reeds
And looked towards north...

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FLAME OF ASCENSION
 

No-one can escape Flame of Ascension 
           a glance, a glimmer, a gestalted shadow
ghosts or gestures guarded Hearts to
   ...

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she wanted to impress those in attendance
seemed the proper thing to do seeming
most of the folk were their to either
endorse her new
restaurant.
she wanted something special for the chefs special
but didn't want to spend the time...

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As I Read through the books 
I can find the words that decode 
I become a poet
Not by circuit but by pursuit
As I am fostering the new generation 
I always wanted to be famous
I reclaim...

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Buddgelin Bey – Translation of Rex Marshall’s « Buddgelin Bey » by T. Wignesan

(Rex Marshall, b. July 16, 1943 at Grafton, belongs to the aboriginal tribe, Thungutti/Gumbaingeri of the Baryulgil
Reserve in New South Wales. He...

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Toilet 
Where I get my moment of silence 
But irritation of thoughts that confuses at times 
I sit there while my body redecorates what were ones genetically modified foods 
Welcoming nothing but relaxation and come-ness...

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A Klingon Lullaby Of Love
(In English and Klingon)

Come to me my little Klingon turtle dove
Drive your poisoned knife into my enemy
Feed me their hearts while they die bleeding
Still pumping life under the old volcanic fight
Eruptions...

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In My New Year’s Resolution I Vow


I solemnly declare under oats on the libel to walk

N aked with only a bellow with fellow utopians 


M istletoe tattoos on my fingers criss-crossing in

Y onder to shepherd...

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IF YOU PULL A LONG FACE : Part XXIX

IF you pull a long pained face
The kind poets affect and gladly display
Throughout the ages with their lonely-heart feelings in lyrical grace
You might end up Precious Pearl...

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A Klingon Love Poem
                    (In Klingon and English)

 tlhIngan bang bom tlhab
(pa' tlhIngan 'ej English Hol)

tugh...

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MY LIVING SOUL

At the dawning of time
When not even 'light' had a presence
He said, “Let there be light"
And the Earth was consumed, in its essence
The darkness was fractured 
As daylight held it at bey
The darkness,...

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You are the female whose perfectly stacked 
You should wear a sign that reads MAY CAUSE HEART ATTACKS 
Pay no mind to what other women say 
Women have their men neutered, keeping them at bey...

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Proclaim the Lord’s faithfulness with worshipful praise*
Revel along earnest gratitude in His redemption-grace
Adore Him, affirming appreciatively His admirable ways
In His sanctuary, and in His firmament’s power all the days
Speak of His mighty acts along His...

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I had a linguistic love affair for awhile with this handsome gentleman,
Today I think after he said good-bye the affair is over.

For awhile we got along exceptionally well,
You often ask yourself when someone chooses to...

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The Warmth of a Winters Dinner
David J Walker 

The blackened cast-iron caldron 
Sat on the stove burner waiting for
The task to begin
the water and the low flame 
taking its time
all day to claim
a winters meal...

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What have been sayin’
It's only Saturday 
Thinking in cliches is itself a cliche

Father in the kitchen
Eats his check away
Thinking in cliches is itself a cliche

Don’t you shake and shiver
When the hounds of order bey?
Thinking in...

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I notice u

do you notice me

As we pass by

i think u r gorgeous

do i catch ur eye 

i think to myself

could i be his type

ok, i could ask

no, maybe, well i might

let me think, maybe...

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J-ust hold firmly to the holy word
A-lmighty Father has taught; 
C-onveyed through the message, 
Q-uesting not to come to naught.
U-se your mind and soul, 
E-specially your heart; 
L-et all of them be united
I-n keeping the...

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Please, teenagers, put down your devastating killing weapons
And know you are too young to grasp all you would deaden.
No baby born should lack unconditional, parental love and support.
Damaged youth are doomed to destroy the world...

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When I retire and start living
I am going to stop writing and just live
Live, live, live like Auntie Mame 
Or, maybe I will write about living:

A.M.
Drink margaritas – lime only 
Walk on pristine beach –...

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Undoubtedly, undeniable

Most definitely

Life is not promised, yet you light up the world

Messages through spoken word

Consciously social, from vocal to vocal

Elemental flow

Lyrically acclaimed and instrumental, truly influential

Beyond a statistic

Such experience – will we ever know

In depth...

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