{"id":1496,"date":"2014-01-25T21:12:23","date_gmt":"2014-01-25T19:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dursunozden.com.tr\/?p=1496"},"modified":"2015-07-10T23:06:04","modified_gmt":"2015-07-10T20:06:04","slug":"where-is-my-meriem-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dursunozden.com.tr\/?p=1496","title":{"rendered":"Meriem. Where is My Meriem? (Poem)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dursunozden.com.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/en2c0750.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1046\" style=\"border: 5px solid black; margin: 5px;\" alt=\"en2c0750\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dursunozden.com.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/en2c0750.jpg\" width=\"787\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.dursunozden.com.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/en2c0750.jpg 787w, http:\/\/www.dursunozden.com.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/en2c0750-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 787px) 100vw, 787px\" \/><\/a>meryemti<\/h1>\n<p align=\"center\">meriem, my meriem turned to steam and blew away<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">whatever moving like a head, a body and a leg<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">naphtha rained in nephte and being a human was a quilt<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">olive eyed children at only one, dying without living,<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">will be come back to life again<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">the black snake coiled up the baby clothes<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">a fainted owl howls in the empty cradle<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">hawks, vultures and uncle sam flocked<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">our next-door neighbour wrestles with the death, on the verge<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">the shadow of the smart bomb changed his way<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">new pharaohs live on blood from a red cup<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">the unbalanced world is at the blind point of the horizon<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">roses of blood blossom in karbala and my heart was petrified<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">hell is frozen; heaven is thawed<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">a stark naked blood rain fell onto the desert hot and rocks<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">I am hunting for my mind so that I can sacrifice it to the truncated head<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">I loved you; I felt you through your eyes<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">coal eyed meriem do not leave me<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">hey tired and offended gods! come down to the human level<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">stop the death! stop dollar and yen<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">dirty dollar greening in screams and cries<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">that anger and revival suffocate you too<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">be parched in the embers of a baby<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">your full son milks blood in your own self<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">the republic of men<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">ayon oros \u2013 the garden of mary<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">vaccination for death, elixir is in tear bottle<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">my meriem, do not cry my daughter! do not cry<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">do not wear blacks! do not wound my heart<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">your mum wants love not a bomb and a broom<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">let us stand in love; you know angels do not cry<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">should there be heavenly justice and holy men<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">under the dead turning to soil, above the sky<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">an aching scream echoes from the graveyard<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\u201cmeriem! meriemti! where is my meriem\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><b>\u201cSCARLET HORSES OF FIRE \/ DURSUN OZDEN\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><i>*This poem was dedicated to one-year-old Meriem pulled into pieces by American bombs in her mother\u2019s embrace and dying in April 6, 2003.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>meryemti meriem, my meriem turned to steam and blew away whatever moving like a head, a body and a leg naphtha rained in nephte and being a human was a quilt olive eyed children at only one, dying without living, will be come back to life again the black snake coiled up the baby clothes &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1046,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[49],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dursunozden.com.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1496"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dursunozden.com.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dursunozden.com.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dursunozden.com.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dursunozden.com.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1496"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.dursunozden.com.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1500,"href":"http:\/\/www.dursunozden.com.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1496\/revisions\/1500"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dursunozden.com.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dursunozden.com.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dursunozden.com.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dursunozden.com.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}