Geceninkemikleriüzerindeyükselir ay Yokturateşineyyamı
Geceyleörtereteğinihilâl
Önedüşenboynaacımaz
Hırslavururbakırorak
Öfkeneyiörter
Yüzünütırnaklarıyla
kazırkenşafak? Hançerdirhilâl
hançeresilâl Geceye
gölgenin
âhısorulmaz
The moon rises above the night’s bones
The fire has no days
the crescent covers her skirt with night
The copper sickle avidly reaps
the neck before her and has no mercy
What can rage veil
when Dawn
scratches your face?
The crescent is a dagger
with a silent larynx
Night can’t be accused
of the shadow’s curse
Geceninsustuğu an düşünürüz
Gecerikkatlidir,
Buzdakayanyıldızları
ağaçlarınsaçlarınatakar
İliklerdüğmelerinigünün
sabahayorgunbakar
Bilirkiminbıraktığını
soluğuna sandal ve amber
kokuluhakikati
Gece
Herkes
sezdiğineinanır
We think when the night is silent
Merciful is the night,
fixing ice skating stars
to trees’ hair
Buttoning the day’s collar
looking tired at the morning
She knows who put on her breath
the sandalwood and amber
smelling reality
At night
everyone believes
his intuitions
Gecegidipgeliyorduaramızda
Soyunurrenginigece
Gümüşotlarınüzerinde
sere serpe
Büyürıslıklar
Islakfısıltılar
toprakbüyür
Kokuluyağlarla
Ovarılgınları
o eskiyazlardankalma
avarerüzgâr
Geceninalnıak
Kollarıkalın
yumuşak
Gecede
Sonsuzdur
atlasıtenin
Night was shuttling between us
Night takes its color off
and carelessly spreads
over the silver grass
Whistles grow,
wet are the whispers
and grows the earth
Vagabond wind
-a residue of ancient summers-
clumbers the tamarisks
with scented oils
Blameless is the night
thick and soft
are her arms
Night makes
Eternal
the flesh’s atlas
DR. HILAL KARAHAN
Turkish poet, writer, translator and medical doctor. She was born in 1977, at Gaziantep, Turkey. She has graduated from KütahyaTavşanlıİstiklal Elementary School in 1988, BalıkesirSırrıYırcalı Anatolian High School in 1995, Ankara Hacettepe University English Medical School in 2001 and Ankara Başkent University Medical School, Obstetrics and Gynecology Residency in 2006.
Although she has been writing since elementary school, her professional poems, stories, articles about poetry have been published since 2000. She was one of the editors of ÇAMCAK Culture and Literature Magazine, published in Ankara Hacettepe University Poem Club during 2000-2002, ETKEN Poem Magazine, published in Alanya during 2003-2004 and MÜHÜR Poem and Literature Magazine in İstanbul during 2010-2013. Since 2017, she is a member of publishing council of international bilingual poetry magazines of Absent, Rosetta Word Literatura and Sahitya Anand.
Since 2000, she has been writing in various poetry-culture-literature magazines such as Destine Literature, Rosetta Word Literatura, Absent, GalaktikaPoetikeAtunis, Litterature Online, Neuma, Ramuri, Kafla, Chinese Language Monthly, Kwee, Kıyı, KurşunKalem, Patika, ÇağdaşTürk Dili, HürriyetGösteri, YasakMeyve, Varlık, Cumhuriyet Book Supplement, Mühür, Mor Taka, Eliz, Çinikitap, ÖzgürEdebiyat, KuşakEdebiyat, Papirus, EdebiyatOrtamı, Ayraç, Üçnokta, Akköy, Akbük, Hâr, Ayna, Aşkın e-Hali, Kül, Kül-Öykü, Etken, ŞiirSaati, Dize, Le PoéteTravaille, Kum, Islık, Bahçe, Ücra, Heves, Mavi Ada, Düşe-Yazma, BilinçaltındanNotlarDergisi, Amanos, … etc. She has also joined to many collective books, poetry almanacs and literature festivals. Her poems were translated into many languages. Her books were published in foreign countries.
She is recently intercontinental director of World Festival of Poetry (WFP), Secretary General of Writers Capital International Foundation (WCIF), Turkey ambassador of World Institute of Peace (WIP) and Turkish member of International Council for Diplomacy and Justice (ICDJ) organizations. She organizes FeminIstanbul Poetry Festival every year.
Painting by Megan Duncanson
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