The Hum Of The Evening (Akşamın Uğultusu) Poem by Serenay Ozkan

The Hum of the Evening


​The weight of the evening in a cold room

Was muttering the falling rain.

In a spring as black as night

Heaped years were humming.



​And the day that began with raw rain

Was a bright dream at the end of the evening.

The green eye of an old man in the street

And the smile of the woman at the window

Their laughter hums on an afternoon.



​It was a windy afternoon

Setting the weight of the evening;

Poems fell from old booksellers

Across from the desolate houses.



​The poems left as the sun went down,

The lights of the booksellers faded out.

The hum of the evening and the sky

Took the green-eyed woman away.



​The green-eyed woman is now

In the poems of the old man.

Evenings hum at the door of the house;

Which poems live in our desolate houses?

(Serenay Özkan)

Akşamın Uğultusu


Akşamın ağırlığı soğuk bir odada

Yağan yağmuru sayıklıyordu

Gece kadar kara baharda

Yığılmış yıllar uğulduyordu



Ve çiğ yağmurla başlayan günü

Akşamın sonunda aydınlık bir düştü

Sokaktaki yaşlı bir adamın

Yeşil gözüyle penceredeki kadının

Gülüşleri uğulduyor bir akşamüstü



Rüzgârlı bir akşamüstüydü

Akşamın ağırlığını koyan

Eski kitapçılardan şiirler düştü

Issız evlerin karşısında



Güneş batarken gitti şiirler

Kitapçıların ışığı söndü

Akşamın uğultusu ve gökyüzü

Yeşil gözlü kadını alıp götürdü



Yeşil gözlü kadın şimdi

Yaşlı adamın şiirlerinde

Evin kapısında akşam uğulduyor

Issız evlerimizde hangi şiirler yaşıyor?

Copyright © 2026 by Serenay Özkan.



About the Author
Serenay Özkan is a Turkish poet and author born in Istanbul in 2004. Her literary journey began in her early youth, marked by the publication of her first poetry collection, Viata (2019) . Known for her lyrical depth and evocative imagery, Özkan's poetry and short stories have been widely featured in various prestigious literary journals and fanzines, including Laf Arası, Asonans, Pratfall, and Gençlik Meclisi. In 2025, her short story collection, Farklı Bir Mehtap (A Different Moonlight) , was awarded a publication prize by the Yol Academi Publishing Group. Currently, she continues her creative work while pursuing her studies at Istanbul University, Faculty of Letters, in the department of Contemporary Turkic Dialects and Literatures. Her work often explores the intersection of memory, cultural identity, and the poetic nuances of everyday existence.

The Arlington Literary Journal (ArLiJo) ,223,2026