Bukle

güneşte
fırtınalar kopuyor
dünyayı
yutacak
büyüyüklükte
bırak
saçların da uçsun
ve çarpsın
güzel
yüzüne
gözlerim kamaşsın
ışıklı
buklelerin
derinliğinde.

Arz

Provided from Valerie Atkinson's blog.
denge aramıyorum
arzın ile arzum arasında.
talep etmiyorum,
talip olmuyorum,
okuyor
ve soluyorum.
bana serin nefesini yolla,
solma.

Master


I've rewritten Efendi in English for a friend on educational purposes:
as if you own your body but no name within
he claws and rips your tender skin.
until you get his orders you're silently waiting
you will catch and bring back the words he was throwing
for giving the exact number on his demand
you're counting your heartbeats; so obedient.
his indications, you're respectfully following
as if you're inhaling what he's exhaling.
you're grateful to your master for his justice
when the collar on your neck brutally squeezes.

Arz-u

gökyüzü üstümüze düştü
diyorlar,
güneşi saçına tak be canım
gözlerin bana küstü
diyorlar,
nurumu karnında yak be canım
kararı kesinmiş, gitti
diyorlar,
uzaktan da olsa bana bak be canım.

Perihan

bir kanat kırılınca
iki can yerde kalır.
perilerin sultanı da
eşiyle hep masadaydı,
tek kızının düğününde
yüreğiyle göğe ağdı,
gövde ile dönülmüyor
hakikat kapısın' semahı.

B-ağla

gözlerini bağla,
ellerini bağla,
beklet,
kokla,
dokunma.
adı unutulacak ama
göz yaşlarını
hatırla.

Igloo

Provided from Stuffpoint.

It's another lazy Sunday and I'm again sharing a Bukowski poem named Igloo.
Love animals ;)

his name was Eddie and he had a
big white dog
with a curly tail
a huskie
like one of those that pulled sleighs
up near the north pole
Igloo he called him
and Eddie had a bow and arrow
and every week or two
he'd send an arrow
into the dog's side
then run into his mother's house
through the yelping
saying that Igloo had fallen on
the arrow.
that dog took quite a few arrows and
managed to
survive
but I saw what really happened and didn't
like Eddie very much.
so when I broke Eddie's leg
in a sandlot football game
that was my way of getting even
for Igloo.
his parents threatened to sue my
parents
claiming I did it on purpose because
that's what Eddie
told them.
well, nobody had any money anyhow
and when Eddie's father got a job
in San Diego
they moved away and left the
dog.
we took him in.
Igloo turned out to be rather dumb
did not respond to very much
had no life or joy in him
just stuck out his tongue
panted
slept most of the time
when he wasn't eating
and although he wiped his ass
up and down the lawn after
defecating
he usually had a large fragrant smear of
brown
under his tail
when he was run over by an
icecream truck
3 or 4 months later
and died in a stream of scarlet
I didn't feel more than the
usual amount of grief
and loss
and I was still glad that I
had managed to
break Eddie's leg.

Mahsup

Baby sculpture by Ron Mueck
doğumunda aldığın
ilk soluk
acıyla
ciğerinin
dibine
gider,
ağlarsın.
o soluk,
hep
orda
kalır
gelinceye dek
ecel.
çarptığın sert zeminden çıkan
ses
ilk ağlayışına bedel.