GÖZLERINE BAKARKEN (NAZIM HIKMET)

Gözlerine bakarken 

günesli bir toprak kokusu vuruyor basima, 

bir bugday tarlasinda, ekinlerin içinde 

kayboluyorum... 

Yesil piriltilarla uçsuz bucaksiz bir uçurum, 

durup dinlenmeden degisen ebedi madde gibi gözlerin: 

sirrini her gün bir parça veren 

fakat hiç bir zaman 

büsbütün teslim olmayacak olan...

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WHILE WATCHING YOUR EYES

While watching your eyes.

the smell of soil under the sun is getting into my head.

I am getting lost in a wheat field among the crops.

An abyss without an end with green sparkles,

Your eyes, changing tirelessly like an everlasting fragment:

Giving away a peice of its secret every  day

But, will never surrender entirely.

My try, as usual

This is beautiful  I would love to hear it in Turkish...

Ermm..msn voice chat, mobile phone, skype? please feel free to pm with the details..

Ahem ..........  can you confirm that you are Turkish??

 I would have bet my house on this reply from you!!!   

Ha ha

But I could not resist LIR!!

 Few people can resist LIR

 How kind of you to say so! 

Does he offer this service to everyone then?  I have seen his lovely translations being keen on poetry, but I am still exploring the site

The answer is - he would like to and he does try very hard to collect msn´s and phone numbers but we do our best to keep him under control so please don´t encourage him. 

 So he is the sites naughty boy then I will watch out  haha

 I can think of better ways of describing him.....

 And if you have a look at this thread Asena ...you can see some others! - plus an insight into some of the other ´personalities´  of Turkish Class!

 Strangely enough, he only seems to offer this to women. 

 Strangely enough, women keep encouraging the hairy beast!

 I think it´s that whole pity thing.  You know, like when you see a disfigured animal and while it is so hideous it makes you want to run away screaming, your instinct is to nurture it.

 Yes, it really is sad.  Under all that hair is just a layer of warts and boils!  Poor, poor handsom .....He does have abnormally high self esteem though, considering his physical limitations.  It´s just cruel to keep encouraging him girls!