Poems by Nihat Özdal
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Existence is fields. Whereas I had thought trees those paths that turned in your voice. I took a distance that I attained when I thought you were not returning, to me. There is a fairy tale whose base makes my pieces flood, making you bite your lips. That which asserts itself, recedes, is not. In stories whose heroes die young, ships are free of blame. Everyone loses something, moving forward is more concerned about taking chances rather than reaping images. You did not lose your shoes, they did not want to hit the road. Sometimes you say somehow, somehow glum, somehow world, how are your feet doing? I became a hawk hunter by chance. What changes the apearance of a wing are encounters. Residues of henna and fortune tellings on the table. Can we start picking the stones of date palms again? This will suffice so that one of us leaves... Death of Sea Urchins What we call desire is the endeavour to make pink a sudden formation of mist. Few things become. Including the death of sea urchins that feed upon algae. Feeding seeds of fruit to those difficulties that gravitate towards skin; like the sphere of beauty it has an arduous set of laws that is difficult to forsake. Taking in the perfume of a peony and staying inside that perfume. To go beyond the beyond the self we were left with two things besides roses skin and doubt! We can spread swiftly if we pick them up. Translated by Pelin Batu |
Nihat Özdal was born in Halfeti in 1984. He is a curator and surf coach. He has worked with visual poetry, and has installations exhibits that question the concepts of time and hope through various objects.
His books have been translated into Russian, Italian, Kurdish, Arabic, Syriac, Serbian, Macedonian, Tatar (Crimean), Croatian, French, Shonan, Afrikaans, Bulgarian, Bosnian, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Sesotho, Setswana, Sepedi, Xitsonga, Tshisvenda, IsiZulu, IsiXhosa ,Isi Ndebele and Siswati languages. Books: Poetry: Google’den Önce (2010 –Mehmet Fuat Young Poetry Awards and 2011 Homeros Poetry Awards, Worthy of praise), Kanat İzleri (2012), Düğmeler (2015) |
