Beautiful Turkey Poems

We have a reason to sing
We are doing our thing
Turkey dash
Oven free
We are traveling carefree
How noble and superior
We don’t have inferior
Turkey’s everywhere asked Greyhound to...

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Country Turkey

The roads were the silence of farmland.
The tracks in the wind are disappearing.
Saying goodbye to the seasons with working machines.
Storks clung to electric poles.

The...

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MERRY CHRISTMAS

It’s that Christmas time of year
Everybody is of good cheer
The Christmas trees are covered with lots of tinsel and lights
There are beautiful sights everywhere...

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Living on a little farm
In the Western NC Mountains
Means experiencing the cock-a-doodle-doo
The Moo-Moo-Moo, the meow and woof
And finally, the gobble-gobble

Each one of our barnyard residents
Find...

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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 like the Bosphorus war??
The earth’s...

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A wandering duck met a male turkey
at Plymouth Harbor in late October,
the exact spot where the Pilgrims landed,
and reflecting on the lost freedom of turkeys,
"...

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Autumn Season (Acrostic)

Autumn brings a beautiful season of splendor each year
Unusual beauty of the leaves—their grandeur is so fair
Touching hearts of God’s creation with radiance...

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THIS DREAM AWAKENS

Marmara teasing, 'do you see me?' 
the black sea among
tables more empty than tombs
to yet born emperors as black tie
waiters serve solitude in...

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so think
maybe i'm not simple like you
my mind shifts through differing opinions
without relying solely on one
there are millions of people residing within me
sorry, my priorities...

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