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Today Is Sunday

Today is Sunday.

For the first time they took me out into the sun today.

And for the first time in my life I was aghast that the sky is so far away and so blue and so vast I stood there without a motion.

Then I sat on the ground with respectful devotion leaning against the white wall.

Who cares about the waves with which I yearn to roll Or about strife or freedom or my wife right now.

The soil, the sun and me… I feel joyful and how.

Translated by Talat Sait Halman

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Nazim Hikmet

Nâzım Hikmet Ran (15 January 1902 – 3 June 1963),[3][4] commonly known as Nâzım Hikmet (Turkish: [naːˈzɯm hicˈmet] (About this soundlisten)), wa…

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