word seed on the wind - a selection

About the Book

The title, “a selection”. There are 550 in this book, out of about 2400 in the original. So, this is rather a “reduction” for the present edition.

Even these 550 may show the range of experience and of poetic response.

See a leaf, a bloom in the rock, a child, a star, through whose eyes?

Will images words come through a peasant boy, or inspired by a rational mind, or a breeze?

Will a bud, make your eyes shine, will it bring you tears?

What is ecstasy, what is agony, what is indifference, with no sharing?

A kitten and a child find in each other what they otherwise miss.

Each “seed” is a glimpse, a cognition, a breath?

The reader will say.

About the Author

A peasant boy in hard conditions. At times he walks to school barefoot, in snow.

At teacher training school, he learns English by himself.

He receives a grant, gets his BA in the US.

Attracted to Zen, he starts to do judo.

He learns of “haiku”, in brevity, similar to Turkish folk poem, “mani”.

As part of his concern with utopias, he goes to a mount to write one. He delays the utopia and goes to mountains with university students, for more than ten years.

By then he is a professor of English literature, and has published books of poetry in Turkish.

“word seed” comes to him, now about 2400, in spontaneity or in deliberation, he cannot say.

The reader will see.