HERE IS THE SECOND POEM A TURKISH POET-ORHAN VELI KANIK IN MY BLOG

IF I CRY,

CAN YOU HEAR MY VOICE IN MY VERSE?

CAN YOU TOUCH MY TEARS WITH YOUR HANDS?

I COULD NOT HAVE KNOWN THE UNBEARABLE BEAUTY OF THE SONGS

AND THE INCRIDIBLE INADEQUACY OF THE WORDS

BEFORE FALLING INTO A TROUBLE LIKE THIS.

THERE IS A PLACE,

I KNOW.

YOU CAN SAY EVERYTHING THERE FREELY,

I AM SO CLOSE TO IT,

I HEAR,

BUT CANNOT TELL.

(IN MEMORY OF ORHAN VELI KANIK-TURKISH POET/THIS POEM WAS WRITTEN BY ORHAN VELI KANIK AND PUBLISHED IN TURKISH IN ISTANBUL/TURKEY BY VARLIK YAYINLARI IN 1945)

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