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Best Poems Written by Manar Kanitemiz

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I Was Enough

I wish someone told me earlier
that I was enough
that  it isn't my fault
my father is a boozer
I wish someone told me earlier
that is not my fault
there is nothing 
to eat in the house
and it's not my fault
that I don't wear nice clothes
I truly am sorry
if my poverty offered You
I just wish someone told me earlier
despite all of this
I was enough
I would not believe then
that you do me favour
by picking on me
That it's your right
to bully me and call me names
I would not mistake
cruelty for affection

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The Midnight Landscape

The Midnight landscape


It's the vast darkness that lies ahead
and scorched earth

The breath of death beneath the wind
stripped the trees bare
 
I, the stranded boat 
in a shallow water

The nightingale
robbed of its song

I call for you

I call for you to seek me
in the vastness

The midnight landscape
without promise of a dawn

It's the world without you
My Beloved

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Cracked

Her picture
shattered into oblivion
stares at me from the mirror

I am wondering
Who 
of us two
is broken more...

The light flows
between the pieces of a glass
between the fragments of her

I have once read 
in the ancient Japan
They used to fix broken pottery
with a gold

The girl in the mirror looks broken
The light poured into her wounds
Completes her

makes her whole

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The Healing

I took off my insecurities
and made love to my pain
I set the heaven on the fire
The ashes of the fore mothers
poured down
in the showers of  gold
the luminescent rain
that liberates,  that heals
and nourishes
The  wild flowers 
who grows
in the fields 
The thorny roses 
who blooms 
in the dust of roads

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My Father Drank

My father drank
trying to convince himself
that he can drown 
his shame and sorrow
.... in Rum.
Most people would say:
 "Sorrow can swim."
 That's a cliche
The sorrow didn't knew 
how to swim 
Enchanted by the shame
it fell deeply in love 
while sinking 
to the bottom of the cup
My father stubbornly
holding onto his cup
jealously watching 
the romance
drank little more
A lot more
sinking to the very bottom
of a human existence
where he found
just more shame and sorrow

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The Wedding

The bride walked down the aisle
at slow pace
With all the dignity and grace
like at funeral
I wanted her to turn
and run away.
She was all the girls and women
that still seek the validation
through a marriage
It has nothing to do with love
She was all the girls and women
that were taught
their only value 
is the bridal prize

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The Hour of the Lovers

The hour of the Lovers



The stars became shy
The echoes of dreams 
and happy memories
clinging on a rusty nail

The contures of Your face faded

In the hour of the Lovers
everyone is lost
everyone is missing