Deniz Kite's Blog – December 2008 Archive (2)

While studying Italian, my eyes are caught by the painting on my wall: Two hands are trying to touch each other. One, the upper one, is almost without any energy, just and only able to hold up his left hand. The other one on the contrary, touching from bottom with his right hand looks much stronger. It is easy to feel His energy. For at least the last twenty years, I have been watching this small square on my wall where ever I lived. Yet I saw the original painting only last year when I was in… Continue

Things I Didn't Know I Loved by Nazım Hikmet



It's 1962 March 28th

I'm sitting by the window on the Prague-Berlin train

night is falling

I never knew I liked

night descending like a tired bird on a smoky wet plain

I don't like

comparing nightfall to a tired bird



I didn't know I loved the earth

can someone who hasn't worked the earth love it

I've never worked the earth

it must be my only Platonic love



and here… Continue