POETRY
Turkish Literature / Turkish Poetry
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Love and Nothing
or Anarchist-God
— POEM by
Furkan Çirkin
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Just as you get dirty as you make dirty;
The more you clean, the more you’re cleaned;
And “when erasers erase, they also get erased”
So the more you love, the less you are loved or nothing.
Live however you live;
Write however you write;
And finally die, tear off, throw away.
So living and writing is just the top of the iceberg or rest of.
God is irreligious and stateless;
But human is religious
and statist.
So if you deceive someone, it is a lie;
If you deceive thousands, it is a religion or a state.
What if you deceive someone a thousand times, what happens?
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(Self-translation from TURKISH)
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Furkan Çirkin
Furkan Çirkin is a poet, editor and academic. He received two bachelor’s degrees in law and philosophy, a master’s degree and a PhD from Istanbul University. Additionally, he is a PhD(c) for his second PhD and an assistant lecturer at the University of Essex. And currently, he lives in Colchester with his wife, curator and artist Hiromi Horiuchi. His poems have been published in many respected poetry journals, including Varlik, the oldest one, and translated into many languages, including French, Italian, Persian and Romanian. Also, he has been publishing Yelkensiz Poetry Journal in Turkey since 2013. So far, he has three poetry books: Nihilist Alarm, Ser/h, and My Life: A Colourful Pitch-Dark. Moreover, he translated Percy Bysshe Shelley’s book “The Mask of Anarchy” into Turkish. Besides, he is a member of Advisory Board at Poetry Translation Centre in London. And, he holds numerous prestigious poetry awards in Turkey.
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