(inspired by Orhan Veli)
I have no intention of travelling.
I am happy in these gorgeous gorges
of the Aveyron.
But if I were to travel
I wouldn't go to Beijing,
La Paz or Mafeking.
One day you might think
you've seen me making
taking magic potions
somewhere beyond the seven oceans,
farther from here than eerie Pyongyang...
but I told you:
I have no intention of travelling.
2 comments:
Orhan Veli Kanik (1914-1950) was a wonderfully-sardonic/ironic Turkish poet whose influence on modern Balkan, Central European and perhaps also Russian poetry has not been recognised.
I shall very shortly put up a page of his poems on my website, so look out for www.beyond-the-pale.co.uk/kanik.htm
Beautiful as always...
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