Gonca Özmen Biography
Gonca Özmen was born in Burdur (southern Turkey) in 1982. She graduated with a degree in English Language and Literature from the University of Istanbul in 2004. In 2008 she completed her M. A. and is now a Ph.D student at the same department.
Her first poem was published in 1997 when she was fifteen years old, and in the same year she was awarded the prize of ‘the most promising talent’ at the Yaşar Nabi Nayır Youth competition. She was awarded with the Ali Rıza Ertan Poetry Prize in 1999.
It was your mouth
nude wall
secret door.
It was your mouth
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Save me the statue of your feet
Save me that shy flower in your pot
I, who am oppressed by the whiteness of a page
The solitude of mute houses on my face
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Come to the land of mulberry
To the remoteness of dwellings
I'll teach you quiet
And the branches' concern
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I learnt compassion from water
put my hand in it, the flowing liquid
touching whomever, going wherever
Do not pick me up
I like to fall apart
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Slowly resemble a courtyard
It's better this way
Nurture a coolness in your mouth
Study the language of windows
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