Goodbye

By Leyla Ok

GooDbye

A fabulous compilation of 31 poems which reveals only the finest piece of writing that can be found in 21st century literature. The poems which were composed and kept captive in the author’s personal diary will now be in print and available for all to decipher as well as enjoy. This skillfully written poetry is the result of profound thoughts and heart rendering feelings put from pen to paper after the author’s tragic loss of her mother, to whom the author dedicates this work of art to.

The author hopes that the readers will find a part of themselves in her own tragedy and contentment by indulging in this book. In the author’s own words:

“My poetry is something unlike you have heard or read before because they are all very private, very familiar yet very unusual at the same time. I would depict my poetry as earnest, it is passion, it is love, it is pain, it is anger and it is everything we experience on a day-to-day basis, it is beyond doubt a concoction of multiple conceptions of who I am and who we are…”

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse UK
• Release date: Mar 9, 2009
• ISBN: 9781467017701

Leyla Ok

Leyla Ok was born in the remote village of Tavla, Kayseri in Eastern Turkey. A year later she embarks on a journey with her family, having to move to the UK at only 18months old. Growing up in a traditional and disciplined middle-eastern family, Leyla, found that much of her passion for poetry rubbed off from her father, a keen reader and writer of poems as well as her great granddad, who has been known to write affecting poems in Farsi also. Poetry was definitely something which was passed onto her, as she describes the feeling as “…words just flow through my mind, as does blood through my veins, perhaps it is hereditary”.   Leyla is a maturing author and expects to publish more of her work in the near future. Her book titled GooDbye is her first publishing experience and so she is thrilled to be able to share what she feels is a piece of her with the readers.

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© 2009 Leyla Ok. All rights reserved.

No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means without the written permission of the author.

First published by AuthorHouse 3/5/2009

ISBN: 978-1-4343-2561-7 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4670-1770-1 (ebk)

Printed in the United States of America

Bloomington, Indiana

Dedicated to my dear Mother Cemile Ok

Contents

A Private Affair 

Evolution  

Innocent 

A Foreign Feeling 

The Universe and You 

The Picture 

State of Mind  

Dead End 

Secret Passion 

Bold Message 

Productivity & Co. 

Childs Perspective 

Those Things I Miss  

The Thing Is 

In Response 

GooDbye 

Living Dead 

O2 

Home Sweet Home 

Meditation 

Half 

Premature 

Mermaid’s Home is Ocean 

It Happens 

Burning Trouble 

Rejection 

Pieces Peaces 

Forbidden Fruit 

Happy Jaded 

Speaking Cure 

While You Sing 

About the Author 

A Private Affair 

I love the way he holds and embraces

Me in his arms touching the right places

Doing what a man does as he faces

Me and kisses my mouth leaving no spaces

To respire as he supports my head and in some cases

My legs as we both rest on the floor showing traces

Of matter representing the magnetism as my heart races!

Our burning bodies caress and the fire blazes

And I no longer am in control of the aces

He is bluffing and I love it when he laces

His fingers into mine as my nervous touch replaces

Words to demonstrate my gratitude on the basis

That he loves me in return and with graces.

Evolution  

I lost you among

Wild trees, wild animals,

Wild weather and wild seas

You discovered me among

Thorns, carcases,

Damp soil in the breeze

I lost you among