Hubli
No,
that is not me, my dear, I am not Peter,
My
heart has been beating for other climates...
For
example, my mind was wandering in Malaysia yesterday...
Even
if it looks like my heart is in my bosom,
No
my dear, definitely no, I don’t belong to here...
The
rice fields at Tibetan ridges...
Do
you know what color the flowers are in Sudan?..
Ethiopians
too know how to dream...
No,
that is not me, my dear, I am not Peter,
Adore
somebody else, not me, idolize somebody else,
My
existence persists as long as I dream...
What
do we have beyond the Tropic of Cancer?
What
kind of a fish is common on Angolan shores?
I
would say “your soul is dead”, if you learn about these only by the books...
Leaving
my last lung into Ürümqi,
After
serving the first one to the Caspian Sea,
This
will be the most joyful premium for me.
No,
that is not me, my dear, I am not Peter,
Who
would comfort you with picnics, with Caribbeans...
I
wish that all my days would be like my Sundays,
So
many pebbles in my pocket, remember I told you I was not Peter...
One
day I was completely lost in the Sea of Oman,
While
accompanying an exhausted dolphin,
I
wouldn’t know whether I would lose my breath or not...
My
destination brings me forward to the White streets in South Africa, with all my
blackness,
I
would swallow diamonds in Zambia, nobody would know...
Everybody
knows that I had been shot multiple times in Rhodesia...
No,
that is not me, my dear, I am not Peter,
Credit
cards, all the bonds, all sorts of sales...
Once
you cling on me, they just disappear...
No,
that is not me, my dear, I am telling you, I am not Peter,
Mostly,
it is an Indian name, Hubli is my name...
Ulaş
Başar Gezgin
2001
Gezgin, U.B.
(2017). You, I and Our Son - Poems of Peace, Longing and Love from Vietnam
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POETRY
BOOKS IN ENGLISH AND OTHER LANGUAGES / İNGİLİZCE VE DİĞER DİLLERDE ŞİİR
KİTAPLARI
1.
Gezgin, U.B. (2017). Yağmur Sonrası/ After Rain / После дождя / Diğer
Dillerdeki Gezgin Şiirleri: Rusça, İngilizce, Tayca, Azerbaycanca, Vietnamca,
İspanyolca ve Japonca [Gezgin’s Poetry in Other Languages: Russian, English,
Thai, Azerbaijani, Vietnamese, Spanish and Japanese].
2.
Gezgin, U.B. (2017). You, I and Our Son - Poems of Peace, Longing and Love
from Vietnam
3.
Gezgin, U.B. (2017). For Those Who Will Sail Across The Oceans: An Explorer’s
Vietnam Poems.
4. Gezgin, U.
B. (2007). On a Tablet – English Poems by Ulas Basar Gezgin. Lulu.
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