“There is no end to the opening up that is possible for a human being.” Charlotte Joko Beck
Category Archives: Impulses
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More often then not, I have posted quotes here from a large number of poets, dramatists, novelists, thinkers, visual artists as well as no-label-individuals. My intent has always been to offer their sentiments about, contemplations on and analyses of the various layers of life and death to you as a platform from which we all may better understand one another. Today, I am leaving you with words by Marcel Proust. Read them, enjoy them (or not), reflect on them and share your own responses to them, should you so choose. Marcel Proust is no longer among the empirically living. We, however, still are…
“My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.”
Filed under Impulses
HAIKU in German
sinnlos die tränen
wenn eiskalt viele seelen
die menschheit schläft tief
(c) hülya n. yılmaz, 1.17.2018
Free Translation (self):
senseless the tears
if ice-cold the many souls
humanity is in a deep sleep
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lend me an island
surround it with tranquil seas
i shall build a fort there
to keep all children away
from harm’s way
love alone will shelter that sphere
my grandson turns four today
i am in a trance with joy
for i lived to relive his birth
on that magical day
i cannot however possibly ignore
lost little anonymous lives galore
© hülya n. yılmaz, 12.7.2017
Filed under Impulses
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curses to that sea
she is idyllic
oh yes
but ever so merciless
why do lullabies not rise instead
for angel-breaths like Aylan Kurdi
who had a mere three-year-span
to be loved in tenderness . . .
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From “hülya’s Poetic Impulses of Candor” in my newest book of poetry: Aflame. Memoirs in Verse. Inner Child Press Ltd. (August 2, 2017); available at inner child press
Also available at inner child press are the following:
An Aegean Breeze of Peace, a book of poetry that I have co-authored with
Demetrios Trifiatis (October 12, 2015), and
Trance (December 12, 2013) ~ My trilingual poetry book with my own translations between English, German and Turkish
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“Start now. Start where you are. Start with fear. Start with pain. Start with doubt. Start with handshaking. Start with voice trembling but start. Start and don’t stop. Start where you are, with what you have. Just . . . start.” ~ Ijeoma Umebinyuo
Filed under Impulses
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“Simply allow your thoughts
and experiences
to come and go,
without ever
grasping at them.”
Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
Filed under Impulses
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“You can’t cross the sea
merely by standing and
staring at the water.”
Rabindranath Tagore
Filed under Impulses, Reflections
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