Nature
Öğle
From Göl Saatleri (1921). Original Turkish text.
Nature
Yeşil sularda büyük inciden çiçekler açar,
Gümüş böcekler okur âba bir neşîde-i hâb.
Durur sevâhilin üstünde, bî-heves, bî-tâb,
Güneş ziyâsını içmiş benât-ı hâb u serâb.
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Codex Note
The title means 'Noon'. 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. Pearl flowers open on green water while silver insects sing of sleep.
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Haşim, Ahmet. “Öğle.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/ahmet-hasim/3/.
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Haşim, Ahmet. “Öğle.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/ahmet-hasim/3/.
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