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You should lie down now and remember the forest,
for it is disappearing —
no, the truth is it is gone now
and so what details you can bring back
might have a kind of life. 5

Not the one you had hoped for, but a life
— you should lie down now and remember the forest —
nonetheless, you might call it "in the forest,"
no the truth is, it is gone now,
starting somewhere near the beginning, that edge, 10

Or instead the first layer, the place you remember
(not the one you had hoped for, but a life)
as if it were firm, underfoot, for that place is a sea,
nonetheless, you might call it "in the forest,"
which we can never drift above, we were there or 15
we were not,

No surface, skimming. And blank in life, too,
or instead the first layer, the place you remember,
as layers fold in time, black humus there,
as if it were firm, underfoot, for that place is a sea,
like a light left hand descending, always on the 20
same keys.

The flecked birds of the forest sing behind and before
no surface, skimming. And blank in life, too,
sing without a music where there cannot be an order,
as layers fold in time, black humus there,
where wide swatches of light slice between gray 25
trunks,

Where the air has a texture of drying moss,
the flecked birds of the forest sing behind and before:
a musk from the mushrooms and scalloped molds.
They sing without a music where there cannot be an order,
though high in the dry leaves something does fall, 30

Nothing comes down to us here.
Where the air has a texture of drying moss,
(in that place where I was raised) the forest was tangled,
a musk from the mushrooms and scalloped molds,
tangled with brambles, soft-starred and moving, 35
ferns

And the marred twines of cinquefoil, false strawberry, sumac —
nothing comes down to us here,
stained. A low branch swinging above a brookin that place where I was raised, the forest was tangled,
and a cave just the width of shoulder blades. 40

You can understand what I am doing when I think of the entry —
and the marred twines of cinquefoil, false strawberry, sumac —
as a kind of limit. Sometimes I imagine us walking there
(. . . pokeberry, stained. A low branch swinging above a brook)
in a place that is something like a forest. 45

But perhaps the other kind, where the ground is covered
(you can understand what I am doing when I think of the entry)
by pliant green needles, there below the piney fronds,
a kind of limit. Sometimes I imagine us walking there.
And quickening below lie the sharp brown blades, 50

The disfiguring blackness, then the bulbed phosphorescence of the roots
But perhaps the other kind, where the ground is covered,
so strangely alike and yet singular, too, below
the pliant green needles, the piney fronds.

Once we were lost in the forest, so strangely alike 55
and yet singular, too,
but the truth is, it is, lost to us now.

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:iconcey-cey:
coştun sen bugün :D allah coştursun ...
super olmuş ... sise bayıldım ...

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:iconilayda-arts:
oyyy canim cok tesekkür ederim :D :D 3 ayin acisini cikariyorum :D :P

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~samuzu

Ilayda Portakaloglu © Tüm haklari Samet Uzundal'da saklidir ve Aitir !! ♥

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:iconebrulii:
:clap: :heart: was für ein melancholisches gedicht :aww:

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=islamicconsciousness
:iconilayda-arts:
Dimi dimi :heart: Fand es so schön passend :huggle:

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:heart:

~samuzu

Ilayda Portakaloglu © Tüm haklari Samet Uzundal'da saklidir ve Aitir !! ♥

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=islamicconsciousness
:iconebrulii:
ja herrlich. Ilham geliyor artik demek ;) cok mutluyum yine böyle iyi olmana ve sürekli birseyler üretmene :heart: :huggle:

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=islamicconsciousness
:iconcllozdemir:
ben çok begendim bunu harika... tebrikler

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:iconilayda-arts:
Celalcim tekrardan cok ama cok tesekkür ederim :blowkiss:

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:heart:

~samuzu

Ilayda Portakaloglu © Tüm haklari Samet Uzundal'da saklidir ve Aitir !! ♥

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=islamicconsciousness
:iconcllozdemir:
rica ederim bu biraz sade oldu için çok begendim yalın ve net

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:iconenginsu:
kıskançlık hat safada:(
D::)
:iconhitandmiss:
simple yet effective, great job :clap:

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