Sceneries from the Youth: 21 Poems from 21 Years

By Deniz Atay

This collection includes twenty-one poems I have written, in twenty-one years of age. Each has a different story, derived from one common spring. They are the clash of the moments of seemingly little hope and the desire to get out of the darkness. Thanks to music firstly and poetry secondly. As a whole, this book is the journey of a poet building a road to shout out his being while trying to perceive this thing called life.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Dec 11, 2015
• ISBN: 9781514421307

Deniz Atay

I am Deniz Atay. I was born on the sixth of January 1994, in Istanbul, Turkey. I met with poetry when I was seventeen years old, thanks to William Blake, Emily Dickinson, and Robert Frost. I read and analyze and slowly began to translate their poems into Turkish. In time, I discovered so many other poets that excited my attention about the world of poetry, most especially W. B. Yeats, Katherine Mansfield, Sara Teasdale, and Edgar Allan Poe. As I was also composing music during the time, poetry helped me perceive the music and create compositions more intensively and deeply. I wrote my first poem (Teardrops) in 2011; from then on, I continued writing poetry, both in Turkish and English. I recently am a comparative literature student in Bilgi University. I still write poetry and compose music, which I am going to do for the rest of my life.

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Copyright © 2015 by Deniz Atay. 728529

ISBN:   Softcover       978-1-5144-2131-4

             EBook            978-1-5144-2130-7

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Rev. date: 11/16/2015

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CONTENTS

Mımosas

Cırrus

Your Beauty Once Was Gold

Deep Woods

The Extant Song

A Ballad

The Fırst Bloom

Camomıles

Joy Is Unattaınable

Snowdrops

Teardrops

Lıfe Is But A Dream

Queen Of Ice

A Lonesome Rose

Hope Can Blossom

Love’s Art

Cardomıce*

It Was The Darkness After All

Lonesome Hands

Meanıng Of Sılence And Love

Pıne

MIMOSAS

Come to my garden and smell

The vivid mimosas -

Each glimmer upon your spell

When yours