Orhan Veli Kanik Poems

How pleasant is the color of tea,
In the morning,
In open weather!
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April

It's impossible
To write poems
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I wouldn't love you this much
If there was another tree besides you
In our neighborhood.
But if you
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Do you know why you appear
In my dreams night after night,
Why I'm tempted by Satan
On immaculate sheets?
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I shall die without anyone knowing,
There shall be
a little blood by my mouth.
The ones who don't know me shall say
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What have we not done for this our fatherland!
Some of us have died;
Some of us have made speeches.
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We live free
Air is free, clouds are free
Valleys and hills are free
Rain and mud are free
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I

I know, it is not easy to live,
To give your heart and sing about your darling;
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Before dawn,
While the sea is still snow-white, you will set sail;
The grip of the oars in your palms,
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You have one kind of beauty
in the mirror
another in bed.
Ignore their whisper
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