Nature
Gece Yarısı
From Göl Saatleri (1921). Original Turkish text.
Ve ansızın suya etmekle mâh-ı dûr sukut
Miyâh-ı ruhumu andırdı safha-i tâlâb:
O ruh içinde muzî bir garîb nilüfer
Bütün elemlerin üstünde müncelî ter ü tâb...
Codex Note
The title means 'Midnight'. One of four short poems on the hours of the day printed together in the magazine Servet-i Fünûn (no. 1054, 4 August 1911) and later collected in Göl Saatleri. When the distant moon falls into the water, the pond becomes like the poet's soul, where a strange shining water lily floats above every grief.
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Haşim, Ahmet. “Gece Yarısı.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/ahmet-hasim/2/.
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Haşim, Ahmet. “Gece Yarısı.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/ahmet-hasim/2/.
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