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By anakreon
By anakreon
This NFT is the first NFT poetry book, which is first created on social media by posting poems on the original photos regularly. Afterwards Anakreon published the first book from this posts. It has been created by bringing together a total of 118 images. All of the poems that have been published on social media were made into a published book with the name of “the Branches of Life” in 2018. The English and Turkish versions of the book can be downloaded on www.anakreon.com.tr. The poems have been posted on social media, mostly on Facebook, with the “Don’t Break The Chain” method, at least one new poem per day between April 2016 / November 2017, with some exceptions. The complete list of the posts shared on the social media accounts can be found below based on the book index with their links. The English translations of the poems can also be found below the links. Therefore, this is also the first bilingual NFT poetry book in the world. If we were to consider the coding language that is used to create this NFT as one language, it consists of a trilingual structure (Turkish, English and the coding language), almost like the "Rosetta Stone". All of the photos in the NFT are originals. The photos with poems on them have been taken by either Anakreon or Mrs. Elvan Güney. The majority of the social media connections are on Facebook. Anakreon’s Facebook account is a social media page that has been online since 2016 and that has 160.000 followers. https://www.facebook.com/anakreontr And Anakreon’s Instagram page has been online since 2016 as well, with 6500 followers. https://www.instagram.com/anakreon_inst/ Further detailed information can be obtained on www.anakreon.com.tr regarding Anakreon’s story. This NFT, Anakreon’s social media accounts and the published book called the Branches of Life have been created by Mustafa Ahmet Baysal, who uses the pen name of Anakreon, who was born in 1978 and who lives in Istanbul.
HAYATIN DALLARI / THE BRANCHES OF LIFE
1: EN SEVDİKLERİMDEN BAŞLAMALI
SHOULD BEGIN WITH MY FAVOURITES
As I learn more
The amount of things
I will discover increases
Unfortunately day by day
I am running out of life
Apparently my time won’t be enough
Should begin with my favourites…
2: SEVGİ
LOVE
Life is yours with all inside
Love is your greatest fortune
The more you love
You become human
The more you share
You become wealthy
And remember that
Love is the only thing that grows when shared
3: DOĞUM GÜNÜ ( VIDEO )
https://www.facebook.com/100045306009457/videos/940620742735542
3: DOĞUM GÜNÜ ( including text )
3: DOĞUM GÜNÜ ( 10 photo )
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BIRTHDAY
I remember
You were born today
This is a gift for you
Receive it either as an old friend or an ex-love
How ever you like
But I have to share with you now
These lines were written
In the time we were together
While you were sleeping in my arms
In a hotel room
A little drunk a lot in love
Our romance was a calm harbour yet
Before we got away from each other
Our littles and lots were mixed
In our busy lives
You were sleeping on my chest
I was writing the following lines
While one of my hands is in yours
“I am your fingertips that you nibble on
I am your child alarms that you set at night
I am your dream hero that appears in movies
I am your dream of the family that you wish to rebuild
I am your hands always drying
I am your eyes that you want to bring out
I am your honesty that you question
I am your eyelashes that caress my face
I am the tough man’s body lying beside you
I am your crazy poet screaming “Oggi o mai” now and then
I am the wine that you drink
I am the man that you love
And also
I am some memories you want to forget
I am the verses you can’t say
With the tears dried up
In the chorus of lost love songs
I am the fatherhood that I’ve failed
I am your outcast child
I am your extreme reality
I am the one you called and believed that you found
I am your lie that I can’t be”
Now it’s time to share
Forgive me for not reading these to you at that time
If I were enough for reading as well as writing
We might have still been together today
Or we would have been a separation like a slap in the face
I don’t know
After all I can only now send these lines to you
From a little close, a lot far from you
Happy birthday my rose
Let it be happy whomever you are with now
Just be happy
*"Oggi o mai" Italıan: "Today or never"
4: KELEBEK KANATLARI
BUTTERFLY WINGS
My heart is my butterfly wings
Mind where you touch me
(don’t hurt me while trying to love me)
5: BOYALI KUŞ
https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1293889527408660&set=pb.100045306009457.-2207520000..
THE PAINTED BIRD
Your wings are painted as mine
Both of us are painted birds
So we push each other
We believe that we are unpainted
In the world of painted people.
- “The Painted Bird” is a story in Jerzy Kosinski’s book with the same name. But this story entered literature as the concept of “the Painted Bird” with the meaning that it refers to symbolically. In the story; one of the novel characters catches live birds and releases them after painting them in various colors. The bird flies straight to the other birds as soon as getting released, but it is naturally not aware that it is painted. The bird is not welcomed by the other birds because it is painted. And eventually, it gets killed by the other birds. And the character of the story watches this with joy, and continues to paint the birds that he catches and release them. Here, a reference is made to alienation.
6: ÇEMBER
CIRCLE
Everybody creates a world for themselves
Of which they stand in the centre
Of which dreams and disappointments are enough for themselves
Everybody draw a circle around themselves
Of which they are in the centre
Whenever they want to get someone in their circle
They narrow into themselves
If they haven’t broaden their horizons enough
With every new inside and outside
The circle stretches
And ensures its frame with each stretch
And you think you’re never protected
Or always protected
In your own circle
7: HAYATIN DALLARI ( 6 photo )
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THE BRANCHES OF LIFE
The branches of life
Thin and fragile
You can’t land on the one you want
Whenever you want
Blaming yourself for the things you aren’t able to do
Will get you nowhere
There is only one law of the universe
And it is time…
No matter what you do
You can’t stand up against it
If you can’t afford to grow old
It means that time is already over for you
And if you can’t hold on
One of the branches of life you choose
You should try again and again
Remember that the measure of existence
Is trying
Holding on and being held on
Standing up against the darkness
That wants to swallow you
And the branches of life
Hope, sorrow, love…
With or without people
You are on the branches of life
As you breathe
As you learn new things in every sorrow
As you rise higher with every hope
As you know yourself
And choose what suits you best
Don’t say that you haven’t found anything
Things you’ve learned have always been there
If you can’t find them
Try to create them
Because creating is the greatest power of the world
And say that you are at this game
SAY YOU ARE AT THIS GAME!
8: GÜNÜ YAKALAMAK
SEIZING THE DAY
How much sorrow is experienced
How much hurry
No one knows
But you think everybody knows
You’re ashamed.
You think the world will stop
And people will stop
When they read your eyes
You’re wrong.
Days pass
From hurry to sorrow
From hope to joy
You think you can catch the days further along the road
And do what you want
But your life goes by
Breath by breath day by day
After all of your hurry
You are left with your regrets
Can you seize the day for me?
9: KALK EVLAT
GET UP KID
These songs never end
This sorrow never stops
Get up kid!
We have much to do.
10: OLGUNLUK
MATURITY
Now I know better
What it means to be mature
Maturity means
To be able to predict the things that will occur
and to be able to stand all the happenings
and to feel sorrow from every prediction
to take a lesson from every sorrow
11: PİŞMANLIK
REGRET
Going
Just going
Without knowing where
Showing that you’re hurt
Actually going unwillingly
Having your mind on the things left behind
Despite knowing that you will regret
Wishing someone would say to stop
Going slowly
Hoping that someone would call now or soon
But turning back
It is not possible to turn back now
Yet no one has called you
That light you have expected to see has never turned on
Now turn back if you can
You are more miserable for not having been called back
You’d better stay there
Turning back in another spring
So it seems that going isn’t good
To go
It seems that no one should go
Sulking like a child
12: PEŞİ SIRA AYRILIKLAR
THEN SEPARATIONS FOLLOW
The sun rises late on bad days
Sorrows cause men to make mistakes
Then separations follow…
It is often difficult to understand the others
Roads don’t end by passing
Sounds of engines
Then separations follow…
You can’t escape from yourself
Even though you go far away
But the roads
Then separations follow.
13: GÖLGEM
MY SHADOW
My hopes are like a candle light in the dark
The only thing I see
Is my shadow
I keep walking expecting it’s ahead
Without knowing what I’d like to find
14: GÖZE ALIŞIM
TAKING THE CHANCE
What benefit did I get
By avoiding people
Considering them
They tried to build walls inside my brain
Taking the chance of thinking
15: AKŞAM SEFASI
THE EVENING PRIMROSE FLOWER
Some endings
Also mean nice beginnings
I have learned this from the evening primrose flower
Which blooms with the last lights of the day.
16: MASUM CEHALET
INNOCENT IGNORANCE
Man realizes how little he knows
As he reads and learns more
And he realizes he has seen very few things
As he travels around the world
Therefore
The man who reads and travels little
Thinks that he knows everything
So don’t be taken in by the arrogance of man who knows little
And don’t forget that
Ignorance is only dangerous when it is brave
Otherwise innocent ignorance is like a clean slate
17: DÜNYANIN GERÇEK YÜZÜ
THE TRUE FACE OF THE WORLD
I looked forward
I saw backward
I looked backward
I saw forward
World, which one is your true face
I couldn’t realize
18: DOKUNUŞLAR
TOUCHES
Some have small hands but great hearts
They are the ones
Who build the world
By small careful touches and great expectations
Some have huge hands but tiny hearts
They are the ones
Who destroy the world
By rough and greedy touches
19: TELAŞLI YALNIZLIK
HURRIED LONELINESS
Is loneliness felt breathlessly?
Why all the hurry?
Is it possible to be alone in a crowd?
For whom the crowds are?
20: KALABALIK YALNIZLIK (A)
20: KALABALIK YALNIZLIK (B)
CROWDED LONELINESS
In the middle of my loneliness
It is a new thing I think about
I am like a city of which roads have been run out
But no, this can’t be called as loneliness
It is a lack of human specific to this era.
We are the alone ones of the crowds
Who are special in their own way
We are the alone ones of the crowds
Who are afraid of the crowds of the cities that make us alone
But who still search for a fellow for themselves
Who believe that they will find themselves all the way in them
Who hope a lot
But are also mistaken a lot
And who is left alone after all.
21: YALNIZLIK KORKUSU
LONELINESS FEAR
I am like the crickets that have missed August
In a hurry not to be late at every moment
Anxious about the loneliness of their future
In every lonely morning they wake up.
22: KANIKSANMIŞ YALNIZLIK
INURED LONELINESS
He hears the nature in the nook
Listens to the night in his bed
His eyes never look
But always see
His lonely face in the mirror
23: KURU YALNIZLIK
DRY LONELINESS
It rains outside at nights
Roads become wet and cold
But you are at home dressed and dry
You weave your loneliness like a lace inside
Preferring to be outside wet and cold
With someone
24: AÇ PENCERENİ ( 3 photo )
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OPEN YOUR WİNDOW
Don’t get stuck in loneliness
Effortless and depressed
Don’t make your heart sink quietly
Open your window and go out into the sunlight
The world is not what you know
Don’t drown in the darkness
Look at the world
See, there are things to love
World doesn’t have only dark face
Open your window
See those green trees
Colourful flowers
Joyful birds
Cute cats
Look at the wideness of the sea
See the point that the vast embraces the horizon
Think that
You can’t catch the horizon even though you’re there
Realize that
There is always a new horizon in your life
Wherever you go
Look at the sprouted sapling
Love its youth
Light the fire of hope
When the darkness came
Burn with the dream of the future
See the true face of the life
It is not all a fight
Open your window
Look and see
Life is not what you know
25: UZAK DEĞİL
NOT FAR AWAY
Nothing is far away
Distances are symbolic.
It’s the desires that matter
It’s wishing to fall in love or to be successful
That matters.
It’s being able to love despite everything that matters
What keeps men alive is being able to hope
Being able to hold on and to be hold.
Being able to stand against the darkness that wants to swallow you
Without thinking the borders
Knowing the one who stands in your way is yourself.
And living a full life
It’s being able to put an end
With the same pleasure you have as you begin a new sentence
Knowing that there is a full stop at the end of every sentence
That matters.
26: ANILAR ( INSTAGRAM )( including text )
https://www.instagram.com/p/BurPIjrnJ-2/
MEMORIES
Memories which are full of shame
Full of pride
Memories which are full of sins
Full of good deeds
Amorous memories
Lonely memories
Sad memories
Happy memories
False memories
Grave memories
Pity memories
Memories which I always want to remember
But I don’t even want to think about
Memories which become older the more I think
Memories which I remember in a different sense every time
Memories which I seek solace in
Or engraved in my mind like a lesson
Memories which are very special in every sense
Memories which will be with me until my last moment like a loyal friend
Memories
Memories…
27: HERKESTEN BİRİ ( 2 photo )
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JUST LIKE EVERYBODY ELSE
He pretends to be vigilant just like everybody else
But he is as naïve as the others
He believes in some things just like everybody else
But he also never feels like believing in some things like the others.
Sometimes he also falls in love just like everybody else,
Believing that he will never break up.
But when time is up
He also breaks up like the others.
Sometimes he gets angry just like everybody else,
But he also thinks himself patient like the others.
He is kind to children just like everybody else,
But he can’t stand the crying of a child like the others.
He thinks himself generous just like everybody else
But he is also stingy as much as the others.
There are more cases to be written.
Some of are too shameful to be mentioned.
As a result he is just like everybody else.
But somehow
He always thinks himself a little special
As much as the others.
28: İÇİMDEYİM ( 3 photo INSTAGRAM )
https://www.instagram.com/p/Btbeg-An7tv/
DEEP INSIDE ME
I am tired again
Calm again
Hopeless again
Inconsistent again
Lost again
Bored again
It’s difficult to change
Challenges are everywhere
Every time
It’s difficult to understand
It’s difficult to be understood
It’s difficult to be loved
While it’s easy to love
Searching is useless
It’s impossible to find
Everything is intentional
Only I am aimless
I am like the blind
But I see what no one wants to see
I am like the deaf
But I hear what no one hears
I am always cold
While I want to warm the others up
I am just like everybody in the crowds
My fellow is loneliness
Chaos and silence again…
Silence that has no dimension
Deep inside me.
29: YAŞAYAN ÖLÜ
THE LIVING DEAD
Am I tired
Or am I daunted?
Have my feelings abandoned me
Or have I abandoned them?
I am like a walking dead
Are the things I do
Evidence of my living
Or are my dead feelings
Evidence of my death?
30: ÖZ-EL
EXTRAORDINARY
Ordinary people also have extraordinary dreams
Everybody believes they are extraordinary
Really, they are…
But hopes and fears are always same actually
Just like every one else
No matter they believe they are extraordinary
Extraordinary
Extra
Ordinary
If you leave “extra” out
You will have “ordinary” left
Ordinary hands
That can’t shake each other
That can’t cover themselves fully
Lonely hands
Mighty of much
But incapable of lots of things
They will bury you with those hands at last
Before you accomplish many things
Just like every one else.
31: UÇAN YILLAR https://www.facebook.com/784495065014778/photos/pb.100045306009457.-2207520000../947062145424735/?type=3
YEARS FLYING BY
You consider yourself as a bird
You think that you can fly
You never give up
Even you know that you can’t fly
You flail about reaching a different point in life
That’s the way life is
It passes quickly
Like the bird that you wish to be
You can’t fly
But years fly by.
32: VARLIK YOKLUK
WEALTH & POVERTY
I know what poverty is
I also know the wealth
As much as I know
Wealth in the poverty
And poverty in the wealth
33: İNSAN
HUMAN
I cared about the human
For they were humans
I also cared about the unhuman
For I was human
But they didn’t return the favour every time
34: MONO-TONE
MONO-TONE
Does monotone life go on?
If it goes on
Then that’s tough.
35: UÇURUM OLMAK
BEING A CLIFF
There are cliffs all around us
Our loved ones are with us
I don’t fear from falling off a cliff
But becoming a cliff.
36: DOSTLARIM
MY FRIENDS
I have friends
They are all like me
We come together at some nights
We get thinner as we talk
We cut our ropes as we get thinner
We become who we wish to be at those times
Coarse and rough when we’re alone
We all get thinner when we’re together.
37: SANKİ HİÇ ÖLMEYECEĞİZ
AS IF WE WILL NEVER DIE
Everybody is a trouble for each other
We couldn’t fit into this great world
Everything we have is for the others
What is left for us is a grave
We pretend to dig it for the others
As if we will never die
38: GEREKLİ
NECESSARY
If there are more things I will see
Is it necessary to forget what I have seen before?
If I was able to love again
Is it necessary to be the last?
If living simply means happiness
Is it necessary to be short-sighted?
Is it necessary to know all necessities
And make the best of everything?
39: NASIL ANLATILIR YAŞAMAK
HOW DO YOU DESCRIBE LIVING?
Do things increase the more they are increased?
And decrease the more they are decreased?
How do you compare
What the man feels
With what actually occurs?
How do you explain a feeling without exaggeration?
How can you come back to earth without pain?
While truths vary from one to another,
How do you describe living
Without thinking the much as little
And the little as much?
40: AYLA İZLEŞMEK
https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1194208574043423&set=pb.100045306009457.-2207520000..
WATCHING EACH OTHER WITH THE MOON
I have sat in the night
Watching the moon
I know the moon is also watching me
We are watching each other like making love
On the other hand the world keeps spinning
Somehow the moon spins at the same speed as well
Just like my drunken mind
41: MAVİYE KAÇIŞ
ESCAPE TO THE BLUE
Cities are one room on the top of the other
Where we try to breathe
Only escape is to the blue around here
To the sea or to the sky
But we can’t escape no matter how much we want to
Our part is living crazily
42: YAŞ 37
AGE 37
When you are at the age of 37
It means that you have passed the half of the way
You have less than half now
And you’re getting late for a makeup exam
It means that your account has accumulated
With the things you gave and received
It means that you should make better decisions
With your current awareness.
43: UMDUĞUMUZ VE BULDUĞUMUZ
WHAT WE EXPECTED AND WHAT WE GOT
Although we didn’t get what we expected
At the end of the roads that we set off on searching
Searching is still nice
As long as the life whispers hope to us.
44: BEKLEYİŞ
WAITING
Someone is always the one who keeps waiting
He hopes for the one who waits him patiently
Someone is always the one who waits
He hopes for the one who is worth the waiting.
45: YAŞAM KAVGASI
LIFE STRUGGLE
Maybe the present moment
Will never become clear
But time will still go by
Even you want to stand against the time
Every moment will bring a new breath
And you will grow old with each breath
If you turn back and look
Your experiences and memories
Your wins and losses
All of your life will lie behind you like a story
And after all one day you will say it is over
But it won’t be over
This struggle will last forever
Whether you exist or not.
46: MANİFESTO
MANIFESTO
My less is more
My more is less in my heart
It is less as I give
And it is more as I get
As long as my heart
Struggles to exist.
47: İKİLEM
DILEMMA
You dislike everybody
Mostly yourself
You want to change
And protect yourself as well
To protect yourself
Against yourself
If you shoot yourself
You carry your corpse on your back
If there must be a fight deep inside you
The most honest one should win
Because life is only happy honestly.
48: KENDİ KENDİMİN
OF MY OWN
I am neither yours
Nor someone else’s
I belong to me
I am both a servant
And a master
Of my own.
49: İÇİMDEKİ ÇIKMAZ
THE DEAD END WITHIN ME
If I miss the things I’ve never experienced
That’s because of the things I experienced…
If I try to explain the things I can’t understand
That’s because they were never discussed
If I can’t expect the things I want to hope
That’s because I can’t find my way in the dead ends within me
50: BİLEREK AĞLAMAK
CRYING CONSCIOUSLY
I cried for my everything today
Knowing that what I call as my everything
May mean nothing for someone else
I cried for my own faults and truths of others.
51: GÜLEBİLİRİM
I CAN SMILE
My face might express complicated meanings
And I might be unaware of this
People can give me any name they want
But even so I can smile
52: SEVİNEN İLE ÜZÜLENİN HALİ ( A )
https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1132201383577476&set=pb.100045306009457.-2207520000..
52: SEVİNEN İLE ÜZÜLENİN HALİ ( B )
https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1132200420244239&set=pb.100045306009457.-2207520000..
THE STATES OF THE HAPPY AND THE SAD
The state of the happy
The happiness inside him overflowed
It doesn’t fit into his smile no more
He wanted to give some to the others
In order to embrace all his joy
The state of the sad
The sorrow grew in his eyes
He couldn’t keep it inside of himself
He wanted to open his heart
In order to split his suffering
53: İSTANBUL
ISTANBUL
I will leave
I will leave but
I will come back to you every time
You are destroyed and rebuilt again like me
Thus you are my city
That I can’t abandon anyway
54: YOLCULUK
JOURNEY
Neither near nor far
How far did you go in life?
It seems that
There isn’t such a thing as near
No matter how close I get
I realized when I couldn’t be close
There isn’t also such a thing as far
I realized when I couldn’t get enough
Even though she was with me
It seems that
Distances are symbolic
If there is a distance covered
It is towards man’s own heart.
55: GİDİŞ
DEPARTURE
You want to come back
If you are far away
But you want to go away from here
Yet you can’t know
What is near or far
You just go
Leaving behind something within you
Tracing your own steps
Chasing after your life
Hoping to come back with each departure
And hoping to go back with each return
You just go
By living…
56: ANONİM HAYAT
ANONYMOUS LIFE
Where does this road go?
Your home?
Or to a foreign land?
Is your journey for coming back
Or for leaving?
Where is your home actually?
Where do you belong?
To which city?
To which people?
Or is this an anonymous life?
Sort of that everybody has?
No matter how special you think yourself
Where the only special thing is left on your way
Where you actually head toward your inside
With your departures and returns
Always searching something
Without knowing what you search
Where you move forward.
57: AĞIR ROMAN
THE DENSE BOOK
We didn’t show those flowers
That we kept for ourselves
So that they would never wither
Our sighs when we were alone
Were like our footsteps in the abandoned streets
Our plain naked bodies
Were like abandoned cities.
58: ÇAĞRI
THE CALLING
The one I put pen to paper
When I can’t hold her hand
The one I write to but I can’t reach
Where are you?
59: BETON ORMANLARINDA
IN THE JUNGLE OF CONCRETE
In a winter night of a distant jungle
It is frosting to the bodies of trees
It is frosting to my hands here because of loneliness
I wish I were a tree in that jungle
I wish I would have frozen there
But I wish there were thousands of souls around me
Of which branches touched my branches
And which knew the pain and the hope inside me
Here I am in the most abundant one among the jungles
But the trees’ branches don’t touch each other
What would I do
However I am still waiting with my arms open
Maybe someone
Some people
Some day
60: İÇİMDEKİ ÇOCUK
THE KID INSIDE ME
What is close to me today
Except the kid playing in front of me?
Neither brawl nor trouble and sorrow
Nor searching
Who is close to me now
Except that kid who can be happy easily
Even I am far away from myself
That kid is closer to me than myself
He is a friend of the kid inside me
61: YABAN ÇİÇEKLERİ
WILDFLOWERS
I loved wildflowers
With thorns smell sour
I had prettified them with my love
They passed out the more they were loved
They pierced their thorns in my heart.
62: YAK BENİ
BURN ME
I am coming to you with my pain
Gather all of your joy together for me
I am burning and hungry for a little love
I am in trouble and coming to you
Light all of your fires in the dark night
My seared wounds will be closed up with you
Burn me
It will be my rescue.
63: ANLAŞMAK
AGGREEMENT
My soul matters for me
It should be so for you too.
64: HATIRLAMAK
REMEMBERING
I always remembered the old in the new
For the reason that I have used the remains of the ruins
For building the new.
65: SANA SUSAMAK ( A )
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65: SANA SUSMAK ( B )
BEING SILENT TO YOU
Your voice was in my silence
And your silence was in my voice
I didn’t know how meaningful the silence was
Before I kept silent to you.
My silence is always to your soul
Your soul where I’d like to flow in forever.
66: KENDİ ÇÖLÜMDE
IN MY OWN DESERT
I am too hot to love
But not cold enough to store
I am waiting for my match
In a weird climate
In my own desert
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SOLACE
I have come from far away
To share your sorrow
But I have no solace for death
I haven’t wiped the sea salt from my lips for you
68: ÇERÇEVE
FRAME
I got narrower with you
And couldn’t get into the frame you drew for me
At last
I got out of the world suddenly.
69: ZAMANLAMA HATASI
MISTIMING
When I reached out my hand to her
It hung up in the air
She had wanted to hold my hand in fact
When I didn’t reach out my hand to her
My hands swing by my sides now
Unless my reaching outs and her holdings
Are at the same time.
70: BOŞA DÜŞTÜ SEVİŞMELER
LOVEMAKINGS WERE WASTED
We have grown ordinary separations
In our lives
Which all look different from each other
But have similar reasons
Unsatisfied passions wasted the emotions in the end
Relationships were drained
Lovemakings were wasted.
71: MUTLU SURET
HAPPY FACE
I found out that
My whole search
Was for love
I realized that
When I woke up to a new person
And saw my happy face in the mirror
72: DOĞRU ZAMAN DOĞRU İNSAN
RIGHT TIME RIGHT PERSON
After many years of life we experienced
All we could collect was just a handful of words
Which we saved for saying
To the right person at the right time
73: YAŞAMIN HAKKI
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LIVING LIFE TO THE FULLEST
You can’t say that you’re living life to the fullest
Unless you get a taste of love
Because you can’t say that
You have lived humanely
Unless you love someone
74: YÜREK KALMADI
DON’T HAVE A HEART
I don’t have a whole heart to love any longer
Because of the disappointments I had
By tracing my faults
75: İÇ İÇE
ONE WITHIN THE OTHER
Our faces are one within the other
My dimples are in your heart
Which I smile
With each breath you take
76: TİNNİTUS
TINNITUS*
You have left me a continuous tinnitus
Like a scream in my ears
Whenever I forget you
You remind me of yourself
As if to say, I am here
Your scream that I can’t stop no matter what I do
Is always in my ears
As an unforgettable memory from you
Even you are no longer with me
*Tinnitus: Experiencing ringing or other noises in ears.
77: DAVET
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INVITATION
Will you come if I call you?
Will you stay if I ask you?
Will you share it with me
If I give you
The rest half of a life?
78: HER ŞEYİM
MY EVERYTHING
Your cry and the cry of the kid inside me
Covered each other
From now on
My everything is ready to make you happy
79: ÇİÇEKTEN KELEPÇELER
HANDCUFFS MADE OF FLOWERS
The strongest handcuffs are
The ones made of flowers
You can’t take your hands off
Because you’re afraid to hurt your loved one
80: ŞİMDİ
PRESENT TIME
A night of curses
Someone in the night
Loneliness in him
Death in loneliness
Emptiness in death
Where the sound doesn’t echo
Where there is neither tomorrow nor yesterday
Which always remains in the same moment
Present time
No one has caught the present time
Present time has gone by
No one could catch the time
Here-by-
-BY- Has already gone bye bye
And nobody has seized hereby
That hereby has always come and gone
Nobody was able to catch the time
81: DEDİ
IT SAID
I saw a shade in the mirror
Who it was, I asked
“You,” said
The voice inside me
“Your pretty cover.”
Then I asked to the voice inside me
Who it was
It laughed and
Said: “Certainly, I am not you.”
82: YASAK KÖŞELER ( A ) ( including text )
82: YASAK KÖŞELER ( B )
82:YASAK KÖŞELER ( C )
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82: YASAK KÖŞELER ( D )
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82: YASAK KÖŞELER ( E )
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82: YASAK KÖŞELER ( F )
FORBIDDEN CORNERS
It will be a lie
If I say that has happened
It will be a lie
If I say that has been told
It will be a lie
If I say that has been understood
But there is a truth in the lie
That is only inside us
That remains secrets only for us
No one in my life
Has ever existed so much for me
And has been so non-existent at the same time
No one in my life
Has ever been so close to me
And so far away from me at the same time
No one in my life
Has ever been so right
And so wrong person for me at the same time
No one in my life
I have never desired as much
And I have kept away from anyone as much at the same time
I have never felt myself so brave in my life
And so coward at the same time
I have never to express anything so much in my life
And also to hide it as much at the same time
Now my love is both much and little
Whatever I say
I am in the indescribable size of the emotions
In the place where the far and near are one
My hands are toing and froing
Once they reached to you
Then came back to me
I have always waited for you
In the forbidden corners in my dream
In my dilemma
But you never even came there
Yet you have sat straight ahead of me
Smiling at me
While I was waiting for you
But you only go away every night
On your beautiful feet
You go away
Leaving me behind staring at you
You go away
I feel like crying after you
I have a mind to say “Don’t go”
But you go away
You go away smiling
Like calling me afterwards
I feel like I should follow you
You go away
Putting my heart in your pocket
Desperately…
As if you never know
You go away
Making my heart sink
You go away…
Go away
Please go away now
83: YENİ BAŞLANGIÇLAR
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NEW BEGINNINGS
I am turning the pages slowly
Just like the days go by
My pen finds a blank in pages
Just like meeting a new person
My pen continues to write till the last blank is filled
Later come new beginnings
Just like the life
84: YAŞAMAK HİKAYELERİ ( I )
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LIFE STORIES
I
Life is a try to complete the half
Even though no one will reach the complete one
84: YAŞAMAK HİKAYELERİ ( II )
II
Don’t look for reasons for everything within yourself
You’re not alone in this world
84: YAŞAMAK HİKAYELERİ ( III )
III
No matter what happens
As long as there is life at the end
84: YAŞAMAK HİKAYELERİ ( IV )
IV
The world has taught me not to trust others
People have taught me selfishness
I am ashamed of what I will teach
With what I have learned
84: YAŞAMAK HİKAYELERİ ( V )
V
Man has come out of nothing
And has disappeared in existence.
84: YAŞAMAK HİKAYELERİ ( VI )
VI
They contaminated an abstract colour named logic
To our brush
We are trying to paint everything in it
84: YAŞAMAK HİKAYELERİ ( VII )
VII
The road to the right target
Doesn’t pass through the hatred
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This NFT is the first NFT poetry book, which is first created on social media by posting poems on the original photos regularly. Afterwards Anakreon published the first book from this posts. It has been created by bringing together a total of 118 images. All of the poems that have been published on social media were made into a published book with the name of “the Branches of Life” in 2018. The English and Turkish versions of the book can be downloaded on www.anakreon.com.tr. The poems have been posted on social media, mostly on Facebook, with the “Don’t Break The Chain” method, at least one new poem per day between April 2016 / November 2017, with some exceptions. The complete list of the posts shared on the social media accounts can be found below based on the book index with their links. The English translations of the poems can also be found below the links. Therefore, this is also the first bilingual NFT poetry book in the world. If we were to consider the coding language that is used to create this NFT as one language, it consists of a trilingual structure (Turkish, English and the coding language), almost like the "Rosetta Stone". All of the photos in the NFT are originals. The photos with poems on them have been taken by either Anakreon or Mrs. Elvan Güney. The majority of the social media connections are on Facebook. Anakreon’s Facebook account is a social media page that has been online since 2016 and that has 160.000 followers. https://www.facebook.com/anakreontr And Anakreon’s Instagram page has been online since 2016 as well, with 6500 followers. https://www.instagram.com/anakreon_inst/ Further detailed information can be obtained on www.anakreon.com.tr regarding Anakreon’s story. This NFT, Anakreon’s social media accounts and the published book called the Branches of Life have been created by Mustafa Ahmet Baysal, who uses the pen name of Anakreon, who was born in 1978 and who lives in Istanbul.
HAYATIN DALLARI / THE BRANCHES OF LIFE
1: EN SEVDİKLERİMDEN BAŞLAMALI
SHOULD BEGIN WITH MY FAVOURITES
As I learn more
The amount of things
I will discover increases
Unfortunately day by day
I am running out of life
Apparently my time won’t be enough
Should begin with my favourites…
2: SEVGİ
LOVE
Life is yours with all inside
Love is your greatest fortune
The more you love
You become human
The more you share
You become wealthy
And remember that
Love is the only thing that grows when shared
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3: DOĞUM GÜNÜ ( including text )
3: DOĞUM GÜNÜ ( 10 photo )
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BIRTHDAY
I remember
You were born today
This is a gift for you
Receive it either as an old friend or an ex-love
How ever you like
But I have to share with you now
These lines were written
In the time we were together
While you were sleeping in my arms
In a hotel room
A little drunk a lot in love
Our romance was a calm harbour yet
Before we got away from each other
Our littles and lots were mixed
In our busy lives
You were sleeping on my chest
I was writing the following lines
While one of my hands is in yours
“I am your fingertips that you nibble on
I am your child alarms that you set at night
I am your dream hero that appears in movies
I am your dream of the family that you wish to rebuild
I am your hands always drying
I am your eyes that you want to bring out
I am your honesty that you question
I am your eyelashes that caress my face
I am the tough man’s body lying beside you
I am your crazy poet screaming “Oggi o mai” now and then
I am the wine that you drink
I am the man that you love
And also
I am some memories you want to forget
I am the verses you can’t say
With the tears dried up
In the chorus of lost love songs
I am the fatherhood that I’ve failed
I am your outcast child
I am your extreme reality
I am the one you called and believed that you found
I am your lie that I can’t be”
Now it’s time to share
Forgive me for not reading these to you at that time
If I were enough for reading as well as writing
We might have still been together today
Or we would have been a separation like a slap in the face
I don’t know
After all I can only now send these lines to you
From a little close, a lot far from you
Happy birthday my rose
Let it be happy whomever you are with now
Just be happy
*"Oggi o mai" Italıan: "Today or never"
4: KELEBEK KANATLARI
BUTTERFLY WINGS
My heart is my butterfly wings
Mind where you touch me
(don’t hurt me while trying to love me)
5: BOYALI KUŞ
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THE PAINTED BIRD
Your wings are painted as mine
Both of us are painted birds
So we push each other
We believe that we are unpainted
In the world of painted people.
- “The Painted Bird” is a story in Jerzy Kosinski’s book with the same name. But this story entered literature as the concept of “the Painted Bird” with the meaning that it refers to symbolically. In the story; one of the novel characters catches live birds and releases them after painting them in various colors. The bird flies straight to the other birds as soon as getting released, but it is naturally not aware that it is painted. The bird is not welcomed by the other birds because it is painted. And eventually, it gets killed by the other birds. And the character of the story watches this with joy, and continues to paint the birds that he catches and release them. Here, a reference is made to alienation.
6: ÇEMBER
CIRCLE
Everybody creates a world for themselves
Of which they stand in the centre
Of which dreams and disappointments are enough for themselves
Everybody draw a circle around themselves
Of which they are in the centre
Whenever they want to get someone in their circle
They narrow into themselves
If they haven’t broaden their horizons enough
With every new inside and outside
The circle stretches
And ensures its frame with each stretch
And you think you’re never protected
Or always protected
In your own circle
7: HAYATIN DALLARI ( 6 photo )
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THE BRANCHES OF LIFE
The branches of life
Thin and fragile
You can’t land on the one you want
Whenever you want
Blaming yourself for the things you aren’t able to do
Will get you nowhere
There is only one law of the universe
And it is time…
No matter what you do
You can’t stand up against it
If you can’t afford to grow old
It means that time is already over for you
And if you can’t hold on
One of the branches of life you choose
You should try again and again
Remember that the measure of existence
Is trying
Holding on and being held on
Standing up against the darkness
That wants to swallow you
And the branches of life
Hope, sorrow, love…
With or without people
You are on the branches of life
As you breathe
As you learn new things in every sorrow
As you rise higher with every hope
As you know yourself
And choose what suits you best
Don’t say that you haven’t found anything
Things you’ve learned have always been there
If you can’t find them
Try to create them
Because creating is the greatest power of the world
And say that you are at this game
SAY YOU ARE AT THIS GAME!
8: GÜNÜ YAKALAMAK
SEIZING THE DAY
How much sorrow is experienced
How much hurry
No one knows
But you think everybody knows
You’re ashamed.
You think the world will stop
And people will stop
When they read your eyes
You’re wrong.
Days pass
From hurry to sorrow
From hope to joy
You think you can catch the days further along the road
And do what you want
But your life goes by
Breath by breath day by day
After all of your hurry
You are left with your regrets
Can you seize the day for me?
9: KALK EVLAT
GET UP KID
These songs never end
This sorrow never stops
Get up kid!
We have much to do.
10: OLGUNLUK
MATURITY
Now I know better
What it means to be mature
Maturity means
To be able to predict the things that will occur
and to be able to stand all the happenings
and to feel sorrow from every prediction
to take a lesson from every sorrow
11: PİŞMANLIK
REGRET
Going
Just going
Without knowing where
Showing that you’re hurt
Actually going unwillingly
Having your mind on the things left behind
Despite knowing that you will regret
Wishing someone would say to stop
Going slowly
Hoping that someone would call now or soon
But turning back
It is not possible to turn back now
Yet no one has called you
That light you have expected to see has never turned on
Now turn back if you can
You are more miserable for not having been called back
You’d better stay there
Turning back in another spring
So it seems that going isn’t good
To go
It seems that no one should go
Sulking like a child
12: PEŞİ SIRA AYRILIKLAR
THEN SEPARATIONS FOLLOW
The sun rises late on bad days
Sorrows cause men to make mistakes
Then separations follow…
It is often difficult to understand the others
Roads don’t end by passing
Sounds of engines
Then separations follow…
You can’t escape from yourself
Even though you go far away
But the roads
Then separations follow.
13: GÖLGEM
MY SHADOW
My hopes are like a candle light in the dark
The only thing I see
Is my shadow
I keep walking expecting it’s ahead
Without knowing what I’d like to find
14: GÖZE ALIŞIM
TAKING THE CHANCE
What benefit did I get
By avoiding people
Considering them
They tried to build walls inside my brain
Taking the chance of thinking
15: AKŞAM SEFASI
THE EVENING PRIMROSE FLOWER
Some endings
Also mean nice beginnings
I have learned this from the evening primrose flower
Which blooms with the last lights of the day.
16: MASUM CEHALET
INNOCENT IGNORANCE
Man realizes how little he knows
As he reads and learns more
And he realizes he has seen very few things
As he travels around the world
Therefore
The man who reads and travels little
Thinks that he knows everything
So don’t be taken in by the arrogance of man who knows little
And don’t forget that
Ignorance is only dangerous when it is brave
Otherwise innocent ignorance is like a clean slate
17: DÜNYANIN GERÇEK YÜZÜ
THE TRUE FACE OF THE WORLD
I looked forward
I saw backward
I looked backward
I saw forward
World, which one is your true face
I couldn’t realize
18: DOKUNUŞLAR
TOUCHES
Some have small hands but great hearts
They are the ones
Who build the world
By small careful touches and great expectations
Some have huge hands but tiny hearts
They are the ones
Who destroy the world
By rough and greedy touches
19: TELAŞLI YALNIZLIK
HURRIED LONELINESS
Is loneliness felt breathlessly?
Why all the hurry?
Is it possible to be alone in a crowd?
For whom the crowds are?
20: KALABALIK YALNIZLIK (A)
20: KALABALIK YALNIZLIK (B)
CROWDED LONELINESS
In the middle of my loneliness
It is a new thing I think about
I am like a city of which roads have been run out
But no, this can’t be called as loneliness
It is a lack of human specific to this era.
We are the alone ones of the crowds
Who are special in their own way
We are the alone ones of the crowds
Who are afraid of the crowds of the cities that make us alone
But who still search for a fellow for themselves
Who believe that they will find themselves all the way in them
Who hope a lot
But are also mistaken a lot
And who is left alone after all.
21: YALNIZLIK KORKUSU
LONELINESS FEAR
I am like the crickets that have missed August
In a hurry not to be late at every moment
Anxious about the loneliness of their future
In every lonely morning they wake up.
22: KANIKSANMIŞ YALNIZLIK
INURED LONELINESS
He hears the nature in the nook
Listens to the night in his bed
His eyes never look
But always see
His lonely face in the mirror
23: KURU YALNIZLIK
DRY LONELINESS
It rains outside at nights
Roads become wet and cold
But you are at home dressed and dry
You weave your loneliness like a lace inside
Preferring to be outside wet and cold
With someone
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OPEN YOUR WİNDOW
Don’t get stuck in loneliness
Effortless and depressed
Don’t make your heart sink quietly
Open your window and go out into the sunlight
The world is not what you know
Don’t drown in the darkness
Look at the world
See, there are things to love
World doesn’t have only dark face
Open your window
See those green trees
Colourful flowers
Joyful birds
Cute cats
Look at the wideness of the sea
See the point that the vast embraces the horizon
Think that
You can’t catch the horizon even though you’re there
Realize that
There is always a new horizon in your life
Wherever you go
Look at the sprouted sapling
Love its youth
Light the fire of hope
When the darkness came
Burn with the dream of the future
See the true face of the life
It is not all a fight
Open your window
Look and see
Life is not what you know
25: UZAK DEĞİL
NOT FAR AWAY
Nothing is far away
Distances are symbolic.
It’s the desires that matter
It’s wishing to fall in love or to be successful
That matters.
It’s being able to love despite everything that matters
What keeps men alive is being able to hope
Being able to hold on and to be hold.
Being able to stand against the darkness that wants to swallow you
Without thinking the borders
Knowing the one who stands in your way is yourself.
And living a full life
It’s being able to put an end
With the same pleasure you have as you begin a new sentence
Knowing that there is a full stop at the end of every sentence
That matters.
26: ANILAR ( INSTAGRAM )( including text )
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MEMORIES
Memories which are full of shame
Full of pride
Memories which are full of sins
Full of good deeds
Amorous memories
Lonely memories
Sad memories
Happy memories
False memories
Grave memories
Pity memories
Memories which I always want to remember
But I don’t even want to think about
Memories which become older the more I think
Memories which I remember in a different sense every time
Memories which I seek solace in
Or engraved in my mind like a lesson
Memories which are very special in every sense
Memories which will be with me until my last moment like a loyal friend
Memories
Memories…
27: HERKESTEN BİRİ ( 2 photo )
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JUST LIKE EVERYBODY ELSE
He pretends to be vigilant just like everybody else
But he is as naïve as the others
He believes in some things just like everybody else
But he also never feels like believing in some things like the others.
Sometimes he also falls in love just like everybody else,
Believing that he will never break up.
But when time is up
He also breaks up like the others.
Sometimes he gets angry just like everybody else,
But he also thinks himself patient like the others.
He is kind to children just like everybody else,
But he can’t stand the crying of a child like the others.
He thinks himself generous just like everybody else
But he is also stingy as much as the others.
There are more cases to be written.
Some of are too shameful to be mentioned.
As a result he is just like everybody else.
But somehow
He always thinks himself a little special
As much as the others.
28: İÇİMDEYİM ( 3 photo INSTAGRAM )
https://www.instagram.com/p/Btbeg-An7tv/
DEEP INSIDE ME
I am tired again
Calm again
Hopeless again
Inconsistent again
Lost again
Bored again
It’s difficult to change
Challenges are everywhere
Every time
It’s difficult to understand
It’s difficult to be understood
It’s difficult to be loved
While it’s easy to love
Searching is useless
It’s impossible to find
Everything is intentional
Only I am aimless
I am like the blind
But I see what no one wants to see
I am like the deaf
But I hear what no one hears
I am always cold
While I want to warm the others up
I am just like everybody in the crowds
My fellow is loneliness
Chaos and silence again…
Silence that has no dimension
Deep inside me.
29: YAŞAYAN ÖLÜ
THE LIVING DEAD
Am I tired
Or am I daunted?
Have my feelings abandoned me
Or have I abandoned them?
I am like a walking dead
Are the things I do
Evidence of my living
Or are my dead feelings
Evidence of my death?
30: ÖZ-EL
EXTRAORDINARY
Ordinary people also have extraordinary dreams
Everybody believes they are extraordinary
Really, they are…
But hopes and fears are always same actually
Just like every one else
No matter they believe they are extraordinary
Extraordinary
Extra
Ordinary
If you leave “extra” out
You will have “ordinary” left
Ordinary hands
That can’t shake each other
That can’t cover themselves fully
Lonely hands
Mighty of much
But incapable of lots of things
They will bury you with those hands at last
Before you accomplish many things
Just like every one else.
31: UÇAN YILLAR https://www.facebook.com/784495065014778/photos/pb.100045306009457.-2207520000../947062145424735/?type=3
YEARS FLYING BY
You consider yourself as a bird
You think that you can fly
You never give up
Even you know that you can’t fly
You flail about reaching a different point in life
That’s the way life is
It passes quickly
Like the bird that you wish to be
You can’t fly
But years fly by.
32: VARLIK YOKLUK
WEALTH & POVERTY
I know what poverty is
I also know the wealth
As much as I know
Wealth in the poverty
And poverty in the wealth
33: İNSAN
HUMAN
I cared about the human
For they were humans
I also cared about the unhuman
For I was human
But they didn’t return the favour every time
34: MONO-TONE
MONO-TONE
Does monotone life go on?
If it goes on
Then that’s tough.
35: UÇURUM OLMAK
BEING A CLIFF
There are cliffs all around us
Our loved ones are with us
I don’t fear from falling off a cliff
But becoming a cliff.
36: DOSTLARIM
MY FRIENDS
I have friends
They are all like me
We come together at some nights
We get thinner as we talk
We cut our ropes as we get thinner
We become who we wish to be at those times
Coarse and rough when we’re alone
We all get thinner when we’re together.
37: SANKİ HİÇ ÖLMEYECEĞİZ
AS IF WE WILL NEVER DIE
Everybody is a trouble for each other
We couldn’t fit into this great world
Everything we have is for the others
What is left for us is a grave
We pretend to dig it for the others
As if we will never die
38: GEREKLİ
NECESSARY
If there are more things I will see
Is it necessary to forget what I have seen before?
If I was able to love again
Is it necessary to be the last?
If living simply means happiness
Is it necessary to be short-sighted?
Is it necessary to know all necessities
And make the best of everything?
39: NASIL ANLATILIR YAŞAMAK
HOW DO YOU DESCRIBE LIVING?
Do things increase the more they are increased?
And decrease the more they are decreased?
How do you compare
What the man feels
With what actually occurs?
How do you explain a feeling without exaggeration?
How can you come back to earth without pain?
While truths vary from one to another,
How do you describe living
Without thinking the much as little
And the little as much?
40: AYLA İZLEŞMEK
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WATCHING EACH OTHER WITH THE MOON
I have sat in the night
Watching the moon
I know the moon is also watching me
We are watching each other like making love
On the other hand the world keeps spinning
Somehow the moon spins at the same speed as well
Just like my drunken mind
41: MAVİYE KAÇIŞ
ESCAPE TO THE BLUE
Cities are one room on the top of the other
Where we try to breathe
Only escape is to the blue around here
To the sea or to the sky
But we can’t escape no matter how much we want to
Our part is living crazily
42: YAŞ 37
AGE 37
When you are at the age of 37
It means that you have passed the half of the way
You have less than half now
And you’re getting late for a makeup exam
It means that your account has accumulated
With the things you gave and received
It means that you should make better decisions
With your current awareness.
43: UMDUĞUMUZ VE BULDUĞUMUZ
WHAT WE EXPECTED AND WHAT WE GOT
Although we didn’t get what we expected
At the end of the roads that we set off on searching
Searching is still nice
As long as the life whispers hope to us.
44: BEKLEYİŞ
WAITING
Someone is always the one who keeps waiting
He hopes for the one who waits him patiently
Someone is always the one who waits
He hopes for the one who is worth the waiting.
45: YAŞAM KAVGASI
LIFE STRUGGLE
Maybe the present moment
Will never become clear
But time will still go by
Even you want to stand against the time
Every moment will bring a new breath
And you will grow old with each breath
If you turn back and look
Your experiences and memories
Your wins and losses
All of your life will lie behind you like a story
And after all one day you will say it is over
But it won’t be over
This struggle will last forever
Whether you exist or not.
46: MANİFESTO
MANIFESTO
My less is more
My more is less in my heart
It is less as I give
And it is more as I get
As long as my heart
Struggles to exist.
47: İKİLEM
DILEMMA
You dislike everybody
Mostly yourself
You want to change
And protect yourself as well
To protect yourself
Against yourself
If you shoot yourself
You carry your corpse on your back
If there must be a fight deep inside you
The most honest one should win
Because life is only happy honestly.
48: KENDİ KENDİMİN
OF MY OWN
I am neither yours
Nor someone else’s
I belong to me
I am both a servant
And a master
Of my own.
49: İÇİMDEKİ ÇIKMAZ
THE DEAD END WITHIN ME
If I miss the things I’ve never experienced
That’s because of the things I experienced…
If I try to explain the things I can’t understand
That’s because they were never discussed
If I can’t expect the things I want to hope
That’s because I can’t find my way in the dead ends within me
50: BİLEREK AĞLAMAK
CRYING CONSCIOUSLY
I cried for my everything today
Knowing that what I call as my everything
May mean nothing for someone else
I cried for my own faults and truths of others.
51: GÜLEBİLİRİM
I CAN SMILE
My face might express complicated meanings
And I might be unaware of this
People can give me any name they want
But even so I can smile
52: SEVİNEN İLE ÜZÜLENİN HALİ ( A )
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52: SEVİNEN İLE ÜZÜLENİN HALİ ( B )
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THE STATES OF THE HAPPY AND THE SAD
The state of the happy
The happiness inside him overflowed
It doesn’t fit into his smile no more
He wanted to give some to the others
In order to embrace all his joy
The state of the sad
The sorrow grew in his eyes
He couldn’t keep it inside of himself
He wanted to open his heart
In order to split his suffering
53: İSTANBUL
ISTANBUL
I will leave
I will leave but
I will come back to you every time
You are destroyed and rebuilt again like me
Thus you are my city
That I can’t abandon anyway
54: YOLCULUK
JOURNEY
Neither near nor far
How far did you go in life?
It seems that
There isn’t such a thing as near
No matter how close I get
I realized when I couldn’t be close
There isn’t also such a thing as far
I realized when I couldn’t get enough
Even though she was with me
It seems that
Distances are symbolic
If there is a distance covered
It is towards man’s own heart.
55: GİDİŞ
DEPARTURE
You want to come back
If you are far away
But you want to go away from here
Yet you can’t know
What is near or far
You just go
Leaving behind something within you
Tracing your own steps
Chasing after your life
Hoping to come back with each departure
And hoping to go back with each return
You just go
By living…
56: ANONİM HAYAT
ANONYMOUS LIFE
Where does this road go?
Your home?
Or to a foreign land?
Is your journey for coming back
Or for leaving?
Where is your home actually?
Where do you belong?
To which city?
To which people?
Or is this an anonymous life?
Sort of that everybody has?
No matter how special you think yourself
Where the only special thing is left on your way
Where you actually head toward your inside
With your departures and returns
Always searching something
Without knowing what you search
Where you move forward.
57: AĞIR ROMAN
THE DENSE BOOK
We didn’t show those flowers
That we kept for ourselves
So that they would never wither
Our sighs when we were alone
Were like our footsteps in the abandoned streets
Our plain naked bodies
Were like abandoned cities.
58: ÇAĞRI
THE CALLING
The one I put pen to paper
When I can’t hold her hand
The one I write to but I can’t reach
Where are you?
59: BETON ORMANLARINDA
IN THE JUNGLE OF CONCRETE
In a winter night of a distant jungle
It is frosting to the bodies of trees
It is frosting to my hands here because of loneliness
I wish I were a tree in that jungle
I wish I would have frozen there
But I wish there were thousands of souls around me
Of which branches touched my branches
And which knew the pain and the hope inside me
Here I am in the most abundant one among the jungles
But the trees’ branches don’t touch each other
What would I do
However I am still waiting with my arms open
Maybe someone
Some people
Some day
60: İÇİMDEKİ ÇOCUK
THE KID INSIDE ME
What is close to me today
Except the kid playing in front of me?
Neither brawl nor trouble and sorrow
Nor searching
Who is close to me now
Except that kid who can be happy easily
Even I am far away from myself
That kid is closer to me than myself
He is a friend of the kid inside me
61: YABAN ÇİÇEKLERİ
WILDFLOWERS
I loved wildflowers
With thorns smell sour
I had prettified them with my love
They passed out the more they were loved
They pierced their thorns in my heart.
62: YAK BENİ
BURN ME
I am coming to you with my pain
Gather all of your joy together for me
I am burning and hungry for a little love
I am in trouble and coming to you
Light all of your fires in the dark night
My seared wounds will be closed up with you
Burn me
It will be my rescue.
63: ANLAŞMAK
AGGREEMENT
My soul matters for me
It should be so for you too.
64: HATIRLAMAK
REMEMBERING
I always remembered the old in the new
For the reason that I have used the remains of the ruins
For building the new.
65: SANA SUSAMAK ( A )
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65: SANA SUSMAK ( B )
BEING SILENT TO YOU
Your voice was in my silence
And your silence was in my voice
I didn’t know how meaningful the silence was
Before I kept silent to you.
My silence is always to your soul
Your soul where I’d like to flow in forever.
66: KENDİ ÇÖLÜMDE
IN MY OWN DESERT
I am too hot to love
But not cold enough to store
I am waiting for my match
In a weird climate
In my own desert
67: TESELLİ https://www.facebook.com/784495065014778/photos/pb.100045306009457.-2207520000../1316392285158384/?type=3
SOLACE
I have come from far away
To share your sorrow
But I have no solace for death
I haven’t wiped the sea salt from my lips for you
68: ÇERÇEVE
FRAME
I got narrower with you
And couldn’t get into the frame you drew for me
At last
I got out of the world suddenly.
69: ZAMANLAMA HATASI
MISTIMING
When I reached out my hand to her
It hung up in the air
She had wanted to hold my hand in fact
When I didn’t reach out my hand to her
My hands swing by my sides now
Unless my reaching outs and her holdings
Are at the same time.
70: BOŞA DÜŞTÜ SEVİŞMELER
LOVEMAKINGS WERE WASTED
We have grown ordinary separations
In our lives
Which all look different from each other
But have similar reasons
Unsatisfied passions wasted the emotions in the end
Relationships were drained
Lovemakings were wasted.
71: MUTLU SURET
HAPPY FACE
I found out that
My whole search
Was for love
I realized that
When I woke up to a new person
And saw my happy face in the mirror
72: DOĞRU ZAMAN DOĞRU İNSAN
RIGHT TIME RIGHT PERSON
After many years of life we experienced
All we could collect was just a handful of words
Which we saved for saying
To the right person at the right time
73: YAŞAMIN HAKKI
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LIVING LIFE TO THE FULLEST
You can’t say that you’re living life to the fullest
Unless you get a taste of love
Because you can’t say that
You have lived humanely
Unless you love someone
74: YÜREK KALMADI
DON’T HAVE A HEART
I don’t have a whole heart to love any longer
Because of the disappointments I had
By tracing my faults
75: İÇ İÇE
ONE WITHIN THE OTHER
Our faces are one within the other
My dimples are in your heart
Which I smile
With each breath you take
76: TİNNİTUS
TINNITUS*
You have left me a continuous tinnitus
Like a scream in my ears
Whenever I forget you
You remind me of yourself
As if to say, I am here
Your scream that I can’t stop no matter what I do
Is always in my ears
As an unforgettable memory from you
Even you are no longer with me
*Tinnitus: Experiencing ringing or other noises in ears.
77: DAVET
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INVITATION
Will you come if I call you?
Will you stay if I ask you?
Will you share it with me
If I give you
The rest half of a life?
78: HER ŞEYİM
MY EVERYTHING
Your cry and the cry of the kid inside me
Covered each other
From now on
My everything is ready to make you happy
79: ÇİÇEKTEN KELEPÇELER
HANDCUFFS MADE OF FLOWERS
The strongest handcuffs are
The ones made of flowers
You can’t take your hands off
Because you’re afraid to hurt your loved one
80: ŞİMDİ
PRESENT TIME
A night of curses
Someone in the night
Loneliness in him
Death in loneliness
Emptiness in death
Where the sound doesn’t echo
Where there is neither tomorrow nor yesterday
Which always remains in the same moment
Present time
No one has caught the present time
Present time has gone by
No one could catch the time
Here-by-
-BY- Has already gone bye bye
And nobody has seized hereby
That hereby has always come and gone
Nobody was able to catch the time
81: DEDİ
IT SAID
I saw a shade in the mirror
Who it was, I asked
“You,” said
The voice inside me
“Your pretty cover.”
Then I asked to the voice inside me
Who it was
It laughed and
Said: “Certainly, I am not you.”
82: YASAK KÖŞELER ( A ) ( including text )
82: YASAK KÖŞELER ( B )
82:YASAK KÖŞELER ( C )
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82: YASAK KÖŞELER ( D )
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82: YASAK KÖŞELER ( E )
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82: YASAK KÖŞELER ( F )
FORBIDDEN CORNERS
It will be a lie
If I say that has happened
It will be a lie
If I say that has been told
It will be a lie
If I say that has been understood
But there is a truth in the lie
That is only inside us
That remains secrets only for us
No one in my life
Has ever existed so much for me
And has been so non-existent at the same time
No one in my life
Has ever been so close to me
And so far away from me at the same time
No one in my life
Has ever been so right
And so wrong person for me at the same time
No one in my life
I have never desired as much
And I have kept away from anyone as much at the same time
I have never felt myself so brave in my life
And so coward at the same time
I have never to express anything so much in my life
And also to hide it as much at the same time
Now my love is both much and little
Whatever I say
I am in the indescribable size of the emotions
In the place where the far and near are one
My hands are toing and froing
Once they reached to you
Then came back to me
I have always waited for you
In the forbidden corners in my dream
In my dilemma
But you never even came there
Yet you have sat straight ahead of me
Smiling at me
While I was waiting for you
But you only go away every night
On your beautiful feet
You go away
Leaving me behind staring at you
You go away
I feel like crying after you
I have a mind to say “Don’t go”
But you go away
You go away smiling
Like calling me afterwards
I feel like I should follow you
You go away
Putting my heart in your pocket
Desperately…
As if you never know
You go away
Making my heart sink
You go away…
Go away
Please go away now
83: YENİ BAŞLANGIÇLAR
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NEW BEGINNINGS
I am turning the pages slowly
Just like the days go by
My pen finds a blank in pages
Just like meeting a new person
My pen continues to write till the last blank is filled
Later come new beginnings
Just like the life
84: YAŞAMAK HİKAYELERİ ( I )
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LIFE STORIES
I
Life is a try to complete the half
Even though no one will reach the complete one
84: YAŞAMAK HİKAYELERİ ( II )
II
Don’t look for reasons for everything within yourself
You’re not alone in this world
84: YAŞAMAK HİKAYELERİ ( III )
III
No matter what happens
As long as there is life at the end
84: YAŞAMAK HİKAYELERİ ( IV )
IV
The world has taught me not to trust others
People have taught me selfishness
I am ashamed of what I will teach
With what I have learned
84: YAŞAMAK HİKAYELERİ ( V )
V
Man has come out of nothing
And has disappeared in existence.
84: YAŞAMAK HİKAYELERİ ( VI )
VI
They contaminated an abstract colour named logic
To our brush
We are trying to paint everything in it
84: YAŞAMAK HİKAYELERİ ( VII )
VII
The road to the right target
Doesn’t pass through the hatred
"Anakreon" is the poet's pseudonym and the real Anakreon was an antique Anatolian bard who lived in the 6th century B.C. Anakreon, born in Teos (İzmir/Turkey), is just one of the names that were brought up in these lands but are beginning to be forgotten with time, just like the many other ancient Anatolian bards. The poet aims to keep the memories of the ancient bards alive by referring to the unprotected values when he chose the pen name of Anakreon. The poet has been writing poems for over 20 years. He has adopted a plain and brief expression that is far from being concerned with I mage, and that is focused on the meaning, and he tells the search of people of his time for meaning, the dilemmas of the city people who are alone in the crowds, the ephemerality of the relationships of our days, the changing moods, and the desires and love in a plain language and sometimes by using dialectical elements. .
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