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İbrahim Ethem Kar

The Heart’s Suitcase

Feb 25

The Heart’s Suitcase

Feb 25

The friends you’ve kept in your heart,

If they ever turn their back,

Feb 25

The friends you’ve kept in your heart,

Feb 25

My poems were on a gallows, it seems.

Feb 20

My poems were on a gallows, it seems.

Feb 20

Mother, I Have Come to Your Side Again

Mother, here I am again, by your side.

Feb 13

Mother, I Have Come to Your Side Again

Feb 13

I remained at the age when I came to you.

A storm appeared, and you left.

Feb 11

I remained at the age when I came to you.

Feb 11

I’m in the streets of the city I memorized, in the ones I forgot.

I don’t know which avenue, which street,

Feb 7

I’m in the streets of the city I memorized, in the ones I forgot.

Feb 7

I opened my eyes to yesterday while dreaming of today,

While living yesterday, I thought of tomorrow,

Feb 6

I opened my eyes to yesterday while dreaming of today,

Feb 6

The days when I broke through the concrete,

How could I have known that I would crush myself?

Feb 5

The days when I broke through the concrete,

Feb 5

Does crying become something everyone does, mother?

Does everyone cry like I do?

Feb 4

Does crying become something everyone does, mother?

Feb 4

It felt like a morning when you had a restful sleep,

And our embraces were like greeting the breeze touching your skin on the balcony…

Feb 4

It felt like a morning when you had a restful sleep,

Feb 4

İbrahim Ethem Kar

İbrahim Ethem Kar

İbrahim Ethem Kar is the author of "Günaydın Gece", an important work of modern Turkish poetry known for its deep language and melancholic atmosphere.

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