I Rest my Case
Faruk Saadet
Bewilderment
at the sight of what?
countries where children struggle
are no countries but shelters
with stormy weathers
b'orders where you and I separate
are mere orders of disfunction
for both of us to ad-here
sometimes a haiku
is just another code
of conduct or misconduct
depending on your State of mind(fulness)
or deepening bewilderment
at the sight of the world
through the scrim
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Faruk Saadet is a linguist working for a mobile technology company and a freelance translator. He's also published poetry in various magazines including Gard, Poesis and Bireylikler. He studied Translation and Interpreting for a BA and Cultural and Critical Studies for an MA degree at Boğaziçi University in Istanbul. His project of 100 Finnish poems in Turkish was included within the official celebrations of Finland's 100th Anniversary in 2017, and he is currently working for a similar but multilingual poetry and translation project for Turkey's 100th Anniversary in 2023.
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