[Photograph: My own, during a dreamy weekend stay at Finton’s Landing]
Don’t surrender your loneliness
So quickly.
Let it cut more deep.
Let it ferment and season you
As few human
Or even divine ingredients can.
![Divan_hafiz[1]](https://dolunaylaben.files.wordpress.com/2016/03/divan_hafiz1.jpg?w=500)
“An artistic depiction of Hafez” (Wikipedia)
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Tagged as HAFIZ, Islamic mysticism, loneliness, outside translation, Poetry, public image from Wikipedia, Sufism
My two poems, “Loneliness” and “dis-ease” appear now in: Pastiche Magazine Spring 2013: Issue 6
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Tagged as Anne Cornell, Barbara Natalie, dis-ease, Issue 6, loneliness, OLLI, Pastiche Spring 2013, Rita Lumpkins, Sarah Russell
instant connection
loneliness? not anymore
welcome cyber world!
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Tagged as cyber world, Haiku, loneliness, Maureen Thorson, NaPoWriMo, National Poetry Writing Month, poem, Poetry
Once upon a Time in Turkey. Autobiographical Fiction. Inner Child Press International (November 15, 2022)
Letter-Poems from a Beloved. Prose poetry in English. Inner Child Press International (May 5, 2020)
Canlarım, My Lifeblood. Poetry in Turkish and English. Inner Child Press International, Private Edition (December 2019)
this and that, a Hodgepodge of hülya’s . . . Poetry. Inner Child Press International (January 2, 2019)
Aflame. Memoirs in Verse. Inner Child Press International (August 2, 2017)
An Aegean Breeze of Peace. A book of poetry, co-authored with Demetrios Trifiatis. Inner Child Press International (October 12, 2015)
Trance. A trilingual poetry book with own translations between English, German and Turkish. Inner Child Press International (December 12, 2013)
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