I Listen To Istanbul (Orhan Veli Kanik Poems)
I listen to Istanbul, my eyes closed:First, a light wind blowingA soft wind swayingThe leaves in the trees,And far off ...
Orhan Veli Kanik Poems (47 Poems)
Toward Freedom (Orhan Veli Kanik Poems)
Before dawn,While the sea is still snow-white, you will set sail;The grip of the oars in your palms,And in your ...
To Leave This City (Orhan Veli Kanik Poems)
This is the city to walk around in the rainStaring at the barges in the harborAnd to hum songs through ...
The Galata Bridge (Orhan Veli Kanik Poems)
Hanging around on the Bridge,Gleefully I watch all of you...Out there, some of you row backwardOr pick mussels off the ...
Gossip (Orhan Veli Kanik Poems)
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To Live (Orhan Veli Kanik Poems)
II know, it is not easy to live,To give your heart and sing about your darling;To walk around at nights ...
All Of A Sudden (Orhan Veli Kanik Poems)
Everything happened all of a sudden. All of a sudden daylight beat down on the earth; There was the sky all of ...
For Istanbul (Orhan Veli Kanik Poems)
AprilIt's impossibleTo write poemsIf you're in loveAnd not toIf the month is AprilDesires & MemoriesDesires are differentSo are the memories.How ...
Edith Almera (Orhan Veli Kanik Poems)
Chances are, at this moment,On a lakesideNear BrusselsHe's thinking of Edith Almera.Edith AlmeraPlays first fiddleIn a gypsy band:She's acclaimed and ...
Fine Days (Orhan Veli Kanik Poems)
These fine days have been my ruin.On this kind of day I resignedMy job in "Pious Foundations"On this kind of ...
Such Is Life (Orhan Veli Kanik Poems)
This family had a puppydogCurly and kinky;his name was Dingdong - he died.They had a pusscat too: Cerulean,She got lost.Then ...
Hoy Lu-Lu (Orhan Veli Kanik Poems)
I wish I too had black friendsWith strange unheard-of names.I wish I could travel with themAll the way from Madagascar ...
I Can’t Tell (Orhan Veli Kanik Poems)
If I cry, can you hear my voice,In my lines;Can you touch,My tears, with your hands?I didn't know that songs ...
Good Weather (Orhan Veli Kanik Poems)
This good weather ruined me,I resigned in such a weatherFrom my government job.I got used to tobacco in such a ...
On Mustard (Orhan Veli Kanik Poems)
What a fool I was,I didn't understand for yearsThe importance of mustard in the society'One can not live without mustard'Abidin ...
There’s Something Like Booze In The Air (Orhan Veli Kanik Poems)
There's something like booze in the air:Makes you feel down and out...If you're eating your heart out because you're hereAnd ...
Free (Orhan Veli Kanik Poems)
We live freeAir is free, clouds are freeValleys and hills are freeRain and mud are freeThe outside of carsThe entrances ...
Headache (Orhan Veli Kanik Poems)
IAlthough the roads are so lovelyAnd the night is so chillyBody gets tiredHeadache doesn't get tiredIIEven if I go home ...
Tail-Song (Orhan Veli Kanik Poems)
We can't come together, our ways are differentYou're a butcher's cat, I'm an alley catYour food comes in a tin ...
Suicide (Orhan Veli Kanik Poems)
I shall die without anyone knowing,There shall bea little blood by my mouth.The ones who don't know me shall say'He ...
My Tree (Orhan Veli Kanik Poems)
I wouldn't love you this muchIf there was another tree besides youIn our neighborhood.But if youKnew how to play slideWith ...
Sunday Evenings (Orhan Veli Kanik Poems)
I am shabby now, butAfter I pay my debtsI will probably have one time more garmentAnd probably youWon't love me ...
Words (Orhan Veli Kanik Poems)
You have one kind of beautyin the mirroranother in bed.Ignore their whispersdress upput your lipstick on.Comejust to spite themto the ...
I Buy Rags (Orhan Veli Kanik Poems)
I buy ragsand turn them into starsMusique is the food of the soulI am crazy about musiqueI write poetryI write ...
There Is Something (Orhan Veli Kanik Poems)
Is this sea as bautiful as this everyday?Does the sky look like this all the time?This furniture, these windows,Are they ...
My Ex-Wife (Orhan Veli Kanik Poems)
Do you know why you appearIn my dreams night after night,Why I'm tempted by SatanOn immaculate sheets?You know whyI still ...
Did I Fall In Love? (Orhan Veli Kanik Poems)
I didn't believe I would have thoughts like this,I would be sleepless at nights,I would be so silent.I didn't believe ...
My Masterpiece (Orhan Veli Kanik Poems)
It is not my habbit to write poemsWhen I'm in love,But I composed my true masterpieceWhen I realizedThat she was ...
Comfort (Orhan Veli Kanik Poems)
You say if only this fight ended,If only I never got hungry,If only I was never tired,If only I never ...
The Story Of Ali R?za And Ahmet (Orhan Veli Kanik Poems)
How strange is the story ofAli Rıza and AhmetOne lives in the villageThe other in the cityAnd every morningThe one ...