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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: HIKMET, NAZIM Matches Found: 124 Hikmet, Nazim Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Ran, Nazim Hikmet 124 poems available by this author 9-10 P.M. POEMS First Line: How beautiful to think of you Last Line: In the world, our country, and our city A LETTER FROM PRISON Poem Text First Line: My love, let me share Subject(s): Prisons & Prisoners; Convicts ABOUT MOUNT ULUDAGH First Line: For seven years now uludagh and I Last Line: To do fifteen years in cell block 71 ABOUT MY POETRY First Line: I have no silver-saddled horse to ride Last Line: Bees will come to it %from timbuktu ABOUT THE SEA First Line: Leaving a jumble of jagged mountains in the west Last Line: And they can sing the same great song %of many different se as ABOUT US First Line: All I wrote about us is lies Last Line: All I wrote about us is the truth ABOUT YOUR HANDS AND LIES First Line: Your hands grave like all stones Last Line: This merchants' empire, this cruelty, won't end ADVICE FOR SOMEONE GOING INTO PRISON First Line: If instead of getting the rope Last Line: Under your left breast grow dull AFTER GETTING OUT OF PRISON First Line: You woke up, %where are you Last Line: On its globe-blue satin cushion ANGINA PECTORIS Poem Text First Line: If half my heart is here, doctor Subject(s): Hearts ANGINA PECTORIS First Line: If half my heart is here, doctor Last Line: My heart still beats with the most distant stars Subject(s): Hearts ANGINA PECTORIS First Line: If half my heart is here, doctor Last Line: My heart still beats with the most distant stars AUTOBIOGRAPHY First Line: I was born in 1902 Last Line: What else will happen to me BACH'S CONCERTO NO. L IN C MINOR First Line: Fall morning in he vineyard Last Line: My rose, this is the miracle of repetition - %to repeat without repeating BAKU AT NIGHT First Line: Reaching down to the starless heavy sea Last Line: Down to the starless heavy sea %in the pitch dark BALCONY First Line: In kurort-varna, I look from the balcony %of the balkan-tourist Last Line: This happiness to be alive BECAUSE OF YOU First Line: Because of you, each day is a melon slice Last Line: Calling me to the greatest peace BEES First Line: The bees, like big drops of honey Last Line: Before I was through BERLIN LETTERS First Line: Berlin is bright and sunny Last Line: Should grace the hotel rooms of all returns BIRTH First Line: My wife bore me a little boy Last Line: Black, %white, %and yellow-- %on its globe--blue satin cushion BOR HOTEL First Line: No way you can sleep nights in varna Last Line: In varna at the bor hotel CONVERSTION WITH DEAD NEZVAL First Line: Soon after you left Last Line: World-loving, smart %dead of prague CUCUMBER First Line: The snow is knee-deep in the courtyard Last Line: It hasn't let up all morning Subject(s): Farm Life CUCUMBER First Line: The snow is knee-deep in the courtyard Last Line: It hasn't let up all morning Subject(s): Cucumbers; Snow EARLY LIGHT First Line: The telegraph poles in the early light Last Line: Like the dove in the blue poster ELEGY FOR MIKHAIL REFILI First Line: This is the leaf fall of my generation Last Line: And I'll succeed in dying without it - %like you, refili ELEGY FOR SATAN First Line: My dog's name was satan Last Line: They'll know the happiness of fish EPIC OF SHEIK BEDREDDIN First Line: On the divan, bursa silk in green-brancing red boughs Last Line: Serra's market place buries its face in its hands. %the rain hisses EVENING WALK First Line: You no sooner got out of prison Last Line: To our house? Subject(s): Turkey FABLE OF FABLES Poem Text First Line: Resting by the water-side Subject(s): Nature FABLE OF FABLES First Line: We stand at the source Last Line: The sun alone remaining, %and then it, too, will go FABLE OF FABLES First Line: Resting by the water-side Last Line: The sparkle of the water hits us %the plane tree, me, the cat, the sun, our life Subject(s): Nature FALLING LEAVES First Line: I've read about falling leaves in fifty thousand poems novels and so on Last Line: Especially chestnut leaves FAR SOUTH First Line: This year, early fall in the far south Last Line: With the sea, sand, sun, apples, stars FAUST'S HOUSE First Line: Below the towers, under the arcades Last Line: At midnight, knocking on the closed door FOR VERA First Line: She said come %she said stay Last Line: Yes, I smiled %and I even died FROM SOFIA First Line: I entered sofia on a spring day, my sweet Last Line: Exile is not easy art to master GIOCONDA AND SI-YA-U First Line: A claim %renowned leonardo's %world-famous Last Line: Here ends my tale's contending, %the rest is lies unending HAZEL ARE MY LADY'S EYES First Line: Hazel are my lady's eyes, %with waves and waves of green Last Line: Only if they love no one but themselves HELLO First Line: Nazim, what happiness Last Line: Hello, everybody, %hello to all of you HUMAN LANDSCAPES FROM MY COUNTRY, SELS First Line: Dawn. The sky an endless pane %of frosted glass Last Line: And everyone lived in fear of the commandant, 'iron ali' HUMAN LANDSCAPES: BOOK 1 First Line: Haydar pasha station %spring 1941 Last Line: The time %was 6:38 HUMAN LANDSCAPES: BOOK 2 First Line: Spring comes to the haydar pasha station cafe Last Line: And was bolted again from the out side HUMAN LANDSCAPES: BOOK 3 First Line: Earth %flat as far as the eye can see Last Line: He softly closed the door HUMAN LANDSCAPES: BOOK 4 First Line: It was sunday Last Line: This is the situation on the eleventh of december HUMAN LANDSCAPES: BOOK 5 First Line: Dawn breaks %red hair flares on the pillow Last Line: Baring two rows of glittering white teeth HYMN TO LIFE First Line: The hair falling on your forehead Last Line: I want the right of the first man I LOVE YOU First Line: I kneel down: I look at the earth Last Line: You are one person in my struggle, %I love you I MADE A JOURNEY First Line: Far off in the night Last Line: Or live a thousand years I STEPPED OUT OF MY THOUGHTS OF DEATH I'M GETTING USED TO GROWING OLD Last Line: They're so buried in their work ICEBREAKER First Line: The icebreaker leads the way Last Line: I watch, %devastated IN THE SNOWY NIGHT WOODS First Line: The beeches deep in snow, %I walk the dark woods Last Line: From fifteen miles away %moscow would be a bright glow ISTANBUL HOUSE OF DETENTION First Line: In the istanbul detention house yard Last Line: Half full, half hungry, %half slaves IT'S THIS WAY First Line: I stand in the advancing light Last Line: The point is not to surrender LAST BUS First Line: Midnight. The last bus Last Line: The snow is whiter than ever LAST LETTER TO MY SON First Line: For one thing, hangmen separated us Last Line: But will last forever in our people LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT First Line: Comrades, if I don't live to see the day Last Line: I wouldn't need a stone or anything LETTER FROM MY WIFE First Line: I want to die before you Last Line: Something inside me says: %maybe LETTER FROM PRISON First Line: My love, let me share Last Line: That it has already claimed, %the ones that are its necessary share Subject(s): Prisons And Prisoners LETTERS FROM A MAN IN SOLITARY Poem Text Recitation First Line: I carved your name on my watchband Subject(s): Prisons & Prisoners; Convicts LETTERS FROM A MAN IN SOLITARY First Line: I carved your name on my watchband Last Line: Only earth, sun, and me... %I am happy Subject(s): Prisons And Prisoners LETTERS FROM CHANKIRI PRISON First Line: Four o'clock, %no you. %five o'clock, %nothing Last Line: Be warm, %to be cold %but not sad Subject(s): Prisons And Prisoners LOVING YOU First Line: Loving you is like eating bread dipped in salt Last Line: Loving you is like saying 'I'm alive' MAILMAN First Line: Whether at dawn or in the middle of the night Last Line: Highwaymen block the roads-- %your letter can't get through Subject(s): Postal Service MESSAGE First Line: My fellow %patients, %you'll get well Last Line: Descending from heavy green branches MY WOMAN First Line: My woman came with me as far as brest Last Line: I'm getting closer, closer to somewhere NEW YEAR'S EVE First Line: The snow falling hard through the night Last Line: Sparkled in the starlight NINTH ANNIVERSARY First Line: One night of knee-deep snow Last Line: And, since morning, my liver goes on aching NOON IN PRAGUE First Line: It stopped snowing first on the hill Last Line: Descended on the square %at noon OCCUPATION First Line: As dawn breaks on the horns of my ox Last Line: I'm busy falling in love with you ON DEATH AGAIN First Line: My wife, %life of my life, %my piraye Last Line: We can say %'we lived,' ON IBRAHIM BALABAN'S PAINTING SPRING First Line: Here, eyes, see balaban's art Last Line: And here are the oxen with sad, terrible sores on their rumps ON IBRAHIM BALABAN'S PAINTING THE PRISON GATES First Line: Six women wait outside the iron gates Last Line: But I am one of the five hundred men ON LIVING Poem Text First Line: Living is no laughing matter: / you must live with great seriousness Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 ON LIVING First Line: Living is no laughing matter: %you must live with great seriousness Last Line: If you're going to say 'I lived' Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 ON LIVING First Line: Living is no laughing matter Last Line: If you're going to say 'I lived' ON THE MATTER OF ROMEO AND JULIET Poem Text First Line: It's no crime to be romeo or juliet Subject(s): Romeo & Juliet ON THE MATTER OF ROMEO AND JULIET First Line: It's no crime to be romeo or juliet Last Line: It's not a crime even to die for love Subject(s): Romeo And Juliet ON THE TWENTIETH CENTURY First Line: To sleep %and wake a hundred years later, my love' Last Line: Will be all sunshine, %like your eyes ONE A.M. First Line: Our books %--freindly, honest, and courageous Last Line: In her full, heavy belly %the baby flutters ONE LINERS First Line: Summer %twilight and dawn embraced ONE NIGHT OF KNEE-DEEP SNOW Last Line: And, since morning, my liver goes on aching OPTIMISM First Line: I write poems %they don't get published Last Line: But it will be for sure OPTIMISTIC MAN First Line: As a child he never plucked the wings off flies Last Line: Aabout the greatness of humanity OPTIMISTIC MAN First Line: As a child he never plucked the wings off flies Last Line: About the greatness of humanity OPTIMISTIC PRAGUE First Line: 1957, january 17. %nine o'clock exactly Last Line: It if touch it, it will ring: %gold-edged, clear, white POEMS TO PIRAYE, SELS. First Line: How good it is to remember you Last Line: Worthy of being loved as I love you PRAGUE DAWN First Line: In prague it's growing light Last Line: Ah my rose, ah my rose, %exile is worse than death REGARDING ART First Line: Sometimes I, too, tell the ah's Last Line: When I love my own children %more %than mother nature's RUBAI First Line: I hope I do not sound boasting Last Line: Here %one day RUBAIYAT First Line: The world you saw was real, rumi, not an apparition, etc Last Line: My heart is still the same heart, my head still the same he ad SAD STATE OF FREEDOM First Line: You waste the attention of your eyes Last Line: Is a sad affair under the stars SADNESS First Line: In the sadness I feel Last Line: Or some good news on the radio SEPARATION First Line: Separation swings through the air like a steel bar Last Line: Even when we sit knee to knee SINCE I WAS THROWN INSIDE Last Line: Is just so much talk SINCE I WAS THROWN INSIDE First Line: Since I was thrown inside %the earth has gone around the sun ten times Last Line: And anything else %such as my ten years here, %in just so much talk SOME ADVICE TO THOSE WHO WILL SERVE TIME IN PRISON First Line: If instead of being hanged by the neck Last Line: On the left side of your chest doesn't lose its luster SOME MEMORIES First Line: Close to the border in bohemia Last Line: With just one question for comrade lenin SPRING PIECE LEFT IN THE MIDDLE First Line: Taut, thick fingers punch Last Line: My blood is budding inside me STRANGE FEELING First Line: The plum trees %are in bloom Last Line: Out of sheer spite -- for myself and the people I love STRANGEST CREATURE ON EARTH First Line: You're like a scorpion, my brother Last Line: But most of the fault, my dear brother, is yours STRAW-BLOND First Line: At dawn the express entered the station unannounced Last Line: The straw-blond trouble of my life SUNDAY First Line: It's sunday, %today for the first time they let me out into the sun Last Line: Just the earth, myself and the sun, and happiness THE CUCUMBER Poem Text First Line: The snow is knee-deep in the courtyard Last Line: It hasn't let up all morning Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE EVENING WALK Poem Text First Line: You no sooner got out of prison Subject(s): Turkey THE MAILMAN Poem Text First Line: Whether at dawn or in the middle of the night Subject(s): Postal Service; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen THINGS I DIDN'T KNOW I LOVED Poem Text First Line: It's 1962 march 28th Subject(s): Likes & Dislikes; Love THINGS I DIDN'T KNOW I LOVED First Line: It's 1962 march 28th Last Line: Watching the world disappear as if on a journey of no return Subject(s): Likes And Dislikes; Love THIRTY YEARS AGO First Line: I passed this way thirty years ago Last Line: I passed this way thirty years ago THIS JOURNEY First Line: We open doors, %close doors Last Line: Begin this journey all over again, %I would THIS THING CALLED PRAGUE First Line: This thing called prague is a magic mirror Last Line: Close my eyes, %comrade, and leave the room %on tiptoe TO LYDIA IVANNA First Line: How many times we've written poems together Last Line: Let it break from anger, %grief TO SAMET VURGUN First Line: I finally made it to your city Last Line: Will happen to me, too, samet TO VERA First Line: A tree grows inside me Last Line: Or the end's in sight -- I couldn't care less TWO LOVES First Line: There can't be two loves in one heart Last Line: Drive, engineer -- %brother, take me there! %'where?' UNTITLED First Line: He was stone bronze plaster and paper anywhere from two Last Line: And paper was lifted off our backs VERA WAKING First Line: The chairs are asleep on their feet %the same as the table Last Line: And embraced your naked waisst those white feet of yours WAITRESS First Line: One of the waitresses %at berlin's astoria restaurant Last Line: Maybe he died before he could WELCOME First Line: Welcome baby %it's your turn to live Last Line: They're laying for you socialism communism and so on WINDOWS First Line: I don't know if it was early morning Last Line: You could almost say %I was happy YOU First Line: You are a field, %I am the tractor Last Line: The footsteps running towrd you are mine YOU First Line: You are a field Last Line: The steps running toward you - that's me YOU'RE First Line: You're my bondage and my freedom Last Line: You're my desire always just out of reach |
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