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Birds

By Arif Ay

to tell us the time

birds flap their wings

by our window

 

birds are the pendulum of the sky

their inexhaustible passion

winds up the clock

 

they carry our houses to the sky

they are the crew of heaven

they pull us out

from our darkness

Source: Flowering Sky By Arif Ay  Translated by Mevlut Ceylan

 

 

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