GÜZİN ORALKAN

GÜZİN ORALKAN

THE OFFENDED REFLECTİON

your insatiable face

spontaneously peels

when it

embraced by pain

wrapped in offense

when your image is reflected

in the mirror

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A MAGIC

My solitude is a slight pain

Which ooze out the burning window-frames

A heart can hear the other one

Happiness came and passed by.

Can an exhausted fire become active

Just like rubbed feelings.

Love is a magic

Let it bring up the universe

Let your love grow up freely…

How many springs conceive

Flowers of spring

How many crimson sunsets

Golden yellow new moons left in the cache

Love is a magic

Let it bring up the universe freely

Before mountain flowers smile upon me.

Izmir

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THE BURRY PAST

i looked back time after time

on that deep burial

the silent traces

of the burry past

having been a cat's paw

of the crestfallen times

two back and one front

as if knitting thessalonian style

starting a new row

crushed and scratched

between the devil and the deep sea

a voice from the buried desires

good morning

solstice

day-transcript

then

tell the icebergs that

here is the brazenfaced darkness

where is that love-kindling brightness

to turn the dreams

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GÜZİN ORALKAN

GÜZIN ORALKAN was born in Malatya. She graduated from Ankara University, Faculty of Pharmacy. She is a founding member and  President of Aegean Culture Foundation. She is General Secretary of KIBATEK Association. She is a member of the Association of Language, the Association of Litterateurs, and PEN International. She has served as a member of the Organizing Committee for Izmir Short Story Days for many years. She has been participating in the organizing committees of various national and international art events for a long period of time. Her poems have been published both in domestic and foreign literary magazines, shared books, and anthologies, and have been translated into foreign languages. Some lyrics that she wrote have been composed by famous composers and taken place in TRT (Turkish Radio and Television Corporation) repertoire. TRT's archive series "Music Bundle" CD Volume 1 includes her work. Her poetry collection The Offended Reflection has been published by Yasakmeyve Publisher. Her two poetry books are ready for publishing.

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