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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