SERKAN ENGIN Poetry is the organization of the poetic images around one or more themes, forming completeness, according to imagist socialist poetry. As it can be understood from this description, the main unit of the poetry is the poetic image,…
BEE LINES The golden bees are making sweet honey From all my old failures —Antonio Machado, transl. Robert Bly In a rough grass patch by a leaning silver birch these boxes left as if in mid-move two raised on a…
ANDERS DAHLGREN Early in my life I became interested in archaeology and as this was long before Indiana Jones swung his bullwhip on the screen, I guess it was my upbringing, the trips we made to the Mediterranean world that…
FEDERICO BATTISTUTTA The Cone and the Mandala The undisputed merit of Teilhard de Chardin is that of having attempted to enter into a vital dialogue between Christianity and the modern world. Implicitly, he was saying that the presentation of the…
GIVE ME A SEMI-DROWSINESS OF YOUR HALF-CLOSED EYES Give me a semi-drowsiness of your half-closed eyes, Let me run like a current in your veins To reach your heart, to dissolve within you, To melt like spring snow. I wish…
KAMBER ATEŞ, HOW ARE YOU? This poem is written for a Kurdish mother, visiting her son in prison seeing him for the first time after seven years, but she is forbidden to speak her own language, so she uses a…
Seven Demons Perhaps you do not have to slay Seven demons with your bare arms Whilst riding on the back of seven dragons Snorting fire, careering through the seven canons of hell Pursued by the seven deadly sins (though I…
