Poems by Tamer Gülbek
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Dream with Honey
I was weighing the bored iron in my genes To and fro, in the pebbly water One lightness was taking off While one other was landing in the air By “air”, I mean the iron outside me In fact, yesterday was beautiful My dream with honey was lying In that shower with no wax And we were crying out of the Honeycomb in our souls Summer was an early bliss In that unwritten poem In that pebbly water My heavily weighed steps Got darkened in a hurry Yesterday’s honey dripped into today. Natural Park On a piece of land failing to become an island A hunger for all, that hops and skips Among the eddies of different climates When that April comes with its showers In green places seen as the South That absent-mindedness which goes In and out the sea The exact midpoint between a whitewash And a pine framework When the smell of resin mingles with The smell of fresh iodine A distant echo is heard from that gigantic island We are balls of billiards, that never touch one another We adore our bodies in a dim beauty April comes out of showers and goes into a trance You come out of the stone in which I’m going to work years later And you say “This was the stone that derailed me, Where did you burst out your hope?” When that April comes with its showers It suddenly is a baby wild hog in the forest That refreshes our thoughts. Translated by the author |
Tamer Gülbek was born in Ankara- Turkey in 1965. He graduated from Boğaziçi University English Language and Literature Department in İstanbul in 1988. He has been working as an English Teacher since then. His first poem was published in Varlık literary review in 1998. His poems and literary articles have been published in many reviews such as Kitap-lık, Ludingirra and Virgül. He also took part in some Turkish literary reviews like Ç.N. with his poetry translations. His translation of Alfred Lord Tennyson’s poetry book Enoch Arden into Turkish was published in 2018. His poetry books are: Zefiran (2008), Suda Tuhaf Hareketler (2009), Güven Park (2010), Yabancı Dil (2013), and Tümünü Görüntüle (2018). He has also got a book consisting of his literary articles: Şiirle Tutulan (2010).
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