Author name: YUSUF ALPER

Turkiye, WORLD’S POETS

ARISTOCRAT

Silent and orphan, by the bank of the river I found out dolefully that I can’t catch The plane flying over me by elongation   I gathered in a yellow Autumn day That I am a lonesome child And since that day on I was left alone I carried sorrow on my face And everything

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Turkiye, WORLD’S POETS

WAIT

A puddle on the stream bed onto which I glide in between the slope where I buried my memories and the wild flowers, declaring there is a spring there. Where antelopes come /down on that stream where the shepherd dogs’ howling echoes. A worn out peace, a peaceful tiredness collected from the days where everything

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Turkiye, WORLD’S POETS

THE WHITE RIVER

The white river, a leftover from the insomnia of a water. Unleashing itself in a limpid transparency. O my youth, my desolation. Coming back to where it started: boomerang. Thirty birds taking the road to the Cuff Mountain. Myself becoming thirty birds every night.   A leftover from the desperation of a face Annihilation where

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SERBIA, WORLD’S POETS

MISS

Miss Allow  me To be for a moment A newborn child To sleep on your breasts To breathe in the intervals of your breaths To drink from your lips I take my first steps upon your hands To get lost in your hair To see the whole world From your cheeks Let my first kisses

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