Hairy affairs

I had obeyed the law and yet I was punished. Sometimes you find yourself in a bad situation – there’s nothing you can do about it. I was in sixth grade and my mother until then, had used to cut my hair. I trusted her, […]

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I chill, therefore I’m free

You don’t know how it is,or do you know how it is,due to all the tensionin morbid rushingsalvos exhilaratethrough the airand fearful glimpsesare replacedwith resignation? Do you know it?Do you not know it?You don’t know it, of course you don’t. I’m happy for you. You […]

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Glimmer of hope

Through the dark clouds, it breaks clearly and bright, it hits you like lightningbut without the rumbling thunderstorm. This bright, beautiful glimmer of hope. His eyes look at you cold as steel, were they not warm and pulled you under their spell just a second […]

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Kusuma

Surrounded by bright green blades of grass that were freshly kissed by the sun, that were grown, I sit on them. Between me and them my finally cast-off winter coat. The blades dance in the rhythm of the wind, which carries away the warmth from […]

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The smell of concrete

Warmth has a smell.   Landscapes of concrete in summer they smell below the rain like steam and wanderlust, yolculuk nereye?   Grey wetness is scentless.   Some people use strange words like “paradise, exotic island, south and heaven on earth”. . They exclude “humidity”. […]

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War / Legends of War

Behind you lies a human or the war or both a person, you lost in war. Behind you lies a human a war and a life, that will never be like this again. War separates what was united peoples and people, legends of love. Faten […]

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The Colour of Divinity

How many heads leaned on your cool flagstones?Which words took softly place in your jointsNestled up to your smooth surfaceBefore they floated to heavenWhere they belongedHave you ever noticed them?And if yes: Do you remember them?I think you do.There’s a reason the painted you in […]

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Will

I wantyou tosee me As human being out offlesh and blood as MuslimPrayingAlive As soulwithout pain without hate. But what doyou see,only you? No, you arenot the onlyblind one. Walking crookedinsane In a whitemadnesslashing shooting killing. Are youdead, onthe ground shattered scared? Get up,put asideyour weapon!  Get up, take […]

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Incomprehension

When I was a little girl, I sat on the floor, old photographs scattered in front of me. I listened to my mother’s voice which was so familiar to me, and tried to understand her words. To understand their meaning. I listened to her and […]

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About monsters and oceans

I know your story very well I’ve heard it many times a proud hero, a big adventure and a princess in a dungeon I especially like the dragons and the monsters they seem to be so human-like. But when you tell your story, it sounds […]

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