Kartal,
your Turkish is perfect, congratulations. I think you could easly read some books. Maybe you already do.

It could be "biledim" the past tense of "bilemek" with the first person singular suffix.

Double click here on this word > bilemek

Both poems are a masterpiece. I have tried to translate them properly. I'm not sure if I did well but with a few cups of coffee and lots of music it was a pleasure for me. Others, please feel free to translate as well. I know, if it had been me to see the peoms afterwards I wouldnt be able to resist.



Sonunda

Gecenin yarısında okuyorum yazdıklarını
Zaman yitiyor
Tekrar tekrar beliriyor
Yüzün gözlerimin önünde
Tadı dudaklarımda bu aşkın
İçimde tarifsiz bir mutluluk

Sonunda kapıyı aralayıp
Seni bekleyen kalbime girdiğini
Hayal mi ediyorum yoksa,
Doğru mu bu?
Yıldızlar hep parlar mı?
Dağlar hep yerli yerinde midir?
Güneş doğar mı her zaman?
Dökülür mü hep sonbahar yaprakları?

Gerçek mi bunlar?

Sonunda burada mısın aşkım?

Hiç bu kadar büyüleyici bir hediye almamıştım.



İstanbul

Hasretini çekiyorum İstanbul'un
Senin hasretini çekiyorum, biricik sevgilim
Galata Köprüsü, Boğaziçi, Beyoğlu
Senin vahşi sarı gözlerin

Sadece İstanbul'u düşÃ¼nüyorum
Beni çağırıyor sürekli
Aklımdan çıkmayan senin ruhun
Gemiler süzülüyor masmavi denizde

Uykularımı kaçırıyor İstanbul
Kova burcu gökyüzünde Ay
Altın rengi günbatımı minareler
Vücudunun kıpırtısını hissediyorum geceleri

Gece ve gündüz çağırıyor beni İstanbul
Mis kokulu güller, Aya Sofya
Yabanıl otlarla çam balı kıvamında
Varıyorum dudaklarının tadına

İstanbul bölüyor zihnimi fragmanlara
İpek tüylü kediler, Marmaris denizanası süzülen,
Vahşi tuzlu bir rüzgar esen yaz gecesi
Kollarında uzanıyorum

Ruhumu istiyor İstanbul
Havada yükselen ılık ney sesi, çocukların gülüşÃ¼
Sultanahmet Camisi parlıyor
Kadifemsi gökyüzü akşamüstleri

Ah birtanem, hissediyorum yüreğini
Yüreğini hissediyorum


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Jane, I'm not sure about the following words. So let me tell you how I understood it. If I got it wrong let me know and I will happily correct it.

1. water-bearer:
I could find two main meanings for this:
a. Aquarius: The 11th sign of the zodiac in astrology
b. Being a water-bearer means that you're able to shoulder the emotional weight of dynamic, ever-changing situations
I have choosen the first vone here.

2. minuret
This was an hard word to find. But suddenly I realised it must be minare (the high tover of a mosque). Did I get it right.

3. "I feel your body turn in the night"
I wasnt sure how to understand "turn" here. I thought it could mean "a change" or "turning back", "going away" but later I decided that it must mean "movement" like a body turning next to you when you lie down.

4. Sleek:
I think this would be "glossy, satiny or silky"

5. salt wind:

This was a difficult one. I convinced myself that it should mean something different than the "sea salt", "salty" but later I gave up and used as in "c" below.

a. (1) salt -- (containing or filled with salt; "salt water")
b. (1) salt -- ((rare; of speech) painful; bitter; "salt scorn"- Shakespeare; "a salt apology")
c. salty, salt -- (one of the four basic taste sensations; like the taste of sea water)

6. Are these two lines connected in any way?
a. "blue sea ships sailing"
b. "your soul I dream of"
I thought they were like two different sentences but I'm not sure.

Greetings,
here are 5 songs of the band "Mavi Sakal". I have picked them from two different albums. The mp3's aren't the best quality this time. I like the one on the top best and so on.
edit:
files expired

A few messages above, here on this topic, on page 2 you can find their whole album. Check my post on, 15 Oct 2005 Sat 05:30 pm. I already posted the names of songs there.

slavica,
I have uploaded the file. You can check the other topic.

For first time listeners Pilli Bebek might sound unusual. But the lyrics are very good I think. These guys are also very modest who have grown in smaller towns in Turkia.

http://www.anadolurock.com/pillibebek/grupe.php

There are lots of musicians who are only image and their music is crap. For instance "kargo" is such a crap band and unfortunately they are much more popular.

Hello slavica,
here is the song "Siyah Beyaz". Yes you are right about the Pilli Bebek's album being too big in size but unfortunately this song is also a long one (over 10 minutes) and is not very small in size: 9.42 MB. Cheers.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=8HVI0T29

edit:
the first London meeting will be on 3.rd December at 6pm in this venue:

Costa Coffee
Shaftsbury Avenue
Picadilly Circus Tube station, exit 4.
From Picadilly circus, make sure Lillywhites in on your right, walk down shaftsbury avenue and the cafe is on the right-hand side.


waseem_uk, has an idea for a meeting for Turkish learners in London. I think this will be great as there are many people in London who learn Turkish as a second language.
I have met some Brits who speak perfect Turkish. It could a good idea to share experiences.

It would be good to arrange a venue specially for this event. Ideally the place should be a cafe like place where people can have a drink while chatting and it would be very encouraging if a few foreigners could make a short speech partly in Turkish.

Probably we will start with a smaller meeting and then will arrange bigger events with better advertisement.

What do you folks think on this? Who is with us?

Dear Meltem,
welcome to Turkish Class. Nice to see you around here as well. You are one of the best in Seslisozluk.com
Cheers