Poems by Emre ŞAHİNLER
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MEHMET'S SADNESS
The stairs of our house are very narrow, Mehmet! you know well the song which night watchmen keep on saying why are the lame rooms of my heart so calm and made of glass?... Our street is very noisy, Mehmet! you know it well you were glad as if hearing a kamancha sound in küçük beyoğlu when the handkerchief girls laughed together Our city is so terrible, Mehmet! my father is a deaf and dumb man and I want the hungover poems to resound on our raki-scented table... Mehmet? do you hear me? I realized this world is not an amusement park leave-the-country climates have always been covered with ashes of time There is something you do not know, Mehmet! the subjects who regard me as an enemy withdrew into their mouseholes when they saw the bunches of flowers I made from a fishnet... Do you know, Mehmet? Allah never stops by the city of fatherless children... A LOBSTER My languages departs heavily from now on because the summer has not crossed over my back instead of the mules heavily burdened I recognized all while passing through Babylon my hands did not touch the dead swallows stuck in my tongue I passed through the solitude of rivers a live lobster wrapped the whole fever of my youth when I seduced the city with the brass band sounds scarlet pains in my forehead echoes of bombing ready to set the sky on fire.. my ravens have declared their independence welcome! this is the republic of skinny states... |
Emre ŞAHİNLER was born on April 10, 1989 in Kartal, İstanbul. He graduated from Istanbul Aydın University, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences. In 2012, he studied at Wroclaw School of Banking in Poland. In 2013, he completed his undergraduate education at the University of Klagenfurt (Alpen-Adria-Universität) in Austria.
His poems and writings on poetry have appeared in Akatalpa, Akköy, Eliz, Fora, Gard, Kurşun Kalem, Lacivert, Mühür, Panoptikon, Şiiri Özlüyorum and Varlık magazines, fanzines and poetry yearbooks. Those he has written have been translated into various languages. He has attended poetry recitals, symposiums and festivals. His published books: • Ölü Mızıkacılar Diyarı (The Land of Dead Musicians, 2013). • Repertuvar ( Repertoire, 2018) |
