A Poetry event "Brussels Raw" and my poem "River-Long Loneliness"

1.0Kader Sevinc - Smart Democracy & Smart Citizenshiphttps://kadersevinc.blogactiv.eukadersevinchttps://kadersevinc.blogactiv.eu/author/kadersevinc/A Poetry event "Brussels Raw" and my poem "River-Long Loneliness"<div> [caption id="attachment_363" align="aligncenter" width="228" caption="Kader Sevinc-Brussels Raw "]<a href="http://kadersevinc.blogactiv.eu/files/2012/05/Bozar.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-363" src="http://kadersevinc.blogactiv.eu/files/2012/05/Bozar-228x300.jpg" alt="" width="228" height="300" /></a>[/caption] We have been working together with Brussels Poetry Collective since my contribution with my poem to the political poetry book <a href="http://a.elf.mylogomail.com/sendlink.asp?HitID=0&StID=94366&SID=1&NID=1128521&EmID=135784878&Link=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5zaGFocmF6YWRldS5vcmcvZW4vY29udGVudC9ldXJvcGVhbi1jb25zdGl0dXRpb24tdmVyc2UtMA%3D%3D&token=a0353c322bc30153b48668fe77c3929d3cfcea0e" target="_blank">“The European Constitution in Verse”</a> .On Sunday at BOZAR I was part of an international poetry event "Brussels Raw" with my poem "River-long loneliness" . </div> I would like to thank to Brussels Poetry Collective for this great event, Galician poet and member of BPC, Xavier Queipo for inviting me and dueting with me and Çağdaş Acar for his excellent translation.. <div>You can read it below:</div> <div><a href="http://kadersevinc.blogactiv.eu/files/2012/05/KS-siir-etkinligi-1.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-364" src="http://kadersevinc.blogactiv.eu/files/2012/05/KS-siir-etkinligi-1-300x287.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="287" /></a></div> <div><a href="http://kadersevinc.blogactiv.eu/files/2012/05/KS-siir-etkinligi-1.jpg"></a><a href="http://kadersevinc.blogactiv.eu/files/2012/05/siir-bxl.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-380" src="http://kadersevinc.blogactiv.eu/files/2012/05/siir-bxl-276x300.jpg" alt="" width="276" height="300" /></a> </div> <div>XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX</div> <h3> </h3> <h3>River-Long Loneliness</h3> Kader Sevinç* 1 here we feel like stars in distant skies we stand alienated on gondolas we depart at nights just to be shot down in the morning, with our suns. *** 2 river-long loneliness highways lead to nowhere jam-packed buses test loneliness in the crowd. *** 3 willows bend down to tears, distance soaks sky-wide steps my weariness is not your fault. *** 4 an old friend pays a visit to each and every home on the planet, and poppy-faced kids will reign over the world... *** 5 as we sleep, a horse with cracked gaze will run by, grabbing our dreams towards love-making butterfiles on the run. *** 6 until it makes any sense it will take days and nights. but one would smell a burnt carnation on its route. *** 7 once we caressed that familiar ivy seasons of our face got insane running towards nothingness *** 8 Following gods’ curse-steps we enjoy destruction, too that of the wind-driven ages see, the day erodes *** 9 O butterflies, looking for a mate snow white butterflies relentless gods of our sleep, my weariness is your fault. *** 10 as we trod on a steep path dreams besiege the soil where the sun is silent, foulard-like shadow plays shade over wind of our lives. *** 11 the day you understand the sirens when you sing aloud, that day finally your voice will settle for departure; into a wine-brimming garden I put all my solutide. limbs of olive trees shade over my self don’t even bother. nevermind the distance. *** 12 when mirrors speak, words wither away. meaning of daydreaming-eyes a wind on the wall, a raining fire. *** 13 the wind, and the mooonlight flowers devour the time a dry taste of deception in my mouth. the river grows in its own bed dreams in non-existing languages. *** 14 we remember the fish that carry the alchemy of water and as we pass by dreams they rub their wounds against ours -our cold, grown up wounds- *** 15 aliens we are we save no single word to pass to others always poor even with our dreams our breath is a burning basil in the cold, cold night. *** 16 the shadow of our voice the mirror of our skin *** 17 water made us bleed suns have risen towards the nape of loneliness born into wastelands, hope raised us all we dragged dreams towards the music of the spring *** 18 even swans fade away, tomorrows migrate a distance-thirst in my body a harumscarum age springs of fiction discharge as sacristan rings the bell *** 19 one question: would I see some fern, an old friend if I go out? my face is a kid’s old geography. *** 20 time’s up, sand is running out my face has folios now, here is a path, dumb and deaf grapevines are today blue. Translation: Çağdaş Acar *Kader Sevinç is a Turkish poet, based in Brussels. She has been publishing her poems in various poetry magazines and reviews in Turkey. She was the editor in chief of NAR poetry magazine in Antalya. She is currently member of the editorial board of the bi-monthly Siirden ("On Poetry") magazine and actively contributes to the international literature projects and events in Brussels and Istanbul. Ms Sevinc is the co-author of a political poetry book “The European Constitution in Verse” (2009, Brussels). She is also the head of the European delegation of the Turkish socialist party. <div>More information is below:</div> <div> </div> <div><a href="http://www.brusselspoetrycollective.net/en.html" target="_blank">http://www.brusselspoetrycollective.net/en.html</a></div> <div> </div> <div><a href="http://www.bozar.be/activity.php?id=12536&lng=en" target="_blank">http://www.bozar.be/activity.php?id=12536&lng=en</a></div>rich