TRIAD OF SEA-BLUES REDUCED TO ONE
On a day of deceit and subterfuge, vile, not properly
lived
A day eyeless, earless, handless, footless, truncated
All my deficiencies, blanks, confusions, piled high on
high
Adventures that have befallen me, these many thousand
years
The systems, the people, the deaths piled on high
So many suns, so many water-snakes, so many plans
Of a sudden the blue reminds me of someone
Of a sudden I think of the mouth of a fish
And I feel cool
I have thought of three places for you and me,
One by the sunflowers, one at thirty and one -- do not ask
Do not ask me now I may tell you myself someday
When I am braver more of a craftsman then I might
tell you
First let us brighten a little this angry darkness
Let us build cities resembling the ones of today
Let us start anew the sesame seeds the loaves of bread
The going overseas the falling in love
Let us go and return
Perhaps that sound that drop those soft beds that green
perhaps
I can break rocks I can mix mortar I can pave roads
We may be happy let us go and return
I will not yield I can crush stones mix mortar
And you have hair like a waterfall no matter what
-turgut uyar-
translator:Nermin Menemencioğlu