Friday, May 15, 2009

Poems on Traveling

I.
When you're travelling,
The stars talk to you.
What they say
Is often sad.

II.
The song one whistles
While drunk in the evenings
Is merry,
But the same song
From inside of a train window
Isn't.

Orhan Veli
Translated by Murat Nemet-Nejat, 1989