Sunday, 28 April 2024

Yellow Flower

yellow flower

A yellow flower on its branch,
I leaned over and smelled it.
Its scent was worth a lifetime.

I said,
Can I come and see you sometime?
Like a relative, a friend...
Will you wait for me there?
If a womanizer hasn't plucked you yet  
To give you to his saucy girlfriend...







Yellow Flower copyright © 2022 June by Leila Cankaya

Friday, 5 April 2024

Machine

One people can love a machine? 
I did it.
Gears...they've rhythmic moves.
Dark brown colour, 
it prints the papers to the press.
Ever the same moves, carefree.
One guy, nearby such stands,
checking it with his hands.
Machine is working honestly non-stop.
It was a press machine.
I watched it with curiosity
that spectre enchanted me
In the dark evening near the shop.
Machine is working like a carefree snob.

I was watching but on other hand 
my eyes looking around worried.
Those who saw me might think I was crazy.
Finally I went away.
Like eternal rhythmic voices.
Can it turn into a human?
Can be a miracle? 
If I love it at enough level....
I was going there almost every day.
More and more I became obsessed to it,
my soul slowly turned to the machine.

One day in the dark,
One guy in the park...
He was watching me with evil looks.
I walked away inside a pain.
Can it turn into a human 
If I give it, m spirit??
Many days I didn't go there.
I couldn't.
But machine still in my brain.
Finally I decided to see it again.

Around of atelier 
there was a large constriction zone;
Trashes, stuff that doesn't work anymore.
My  God, there... Machine!
Beside the machine a baton.
No way, no!
Such a silent, static.
Somebody had broken it 
or naturally it was broken
I don't know.
Then I understood that, 
I was a miserable romantic.

But that's real that, it doesn't lie.
As if for a moment, I saw a movement.
Over it a few drops, does it cry?
My God! Can I bring it back with my prayer?
After a few minutes, the rain got faster,
Hopelessly, I left it.


















Wednesday, 3 April 2024

Leila Cankaya #Biographie

She was born in Germany Ludwigsburg, in 21 July 1966
She lived 10 years  in Germany then she turned to Turkey  with her family.She degreed the Cibali girl Academy, now girl-boy mix, in Istanbul - Vefa. 1982 She married, and she has a son.
Her poetry talks about the matter with out world and the individual.  In the middle of a street we can see the demons. The dimensions and the views of the world could change in any moment. Modernist lyric poems meet in narrative poetry.Day Dreamer is consisting of three long stories...it was published in 2022 at Scribd,  publishing company...