Come Along for the Ride

Volkan İnceçay, Turkey

Volkan İnceçay works at the School of Foreign Languages of Yeditepe University, Istanbul, Turkey. He is mainly responsible for the English Language Teaching Department Preparatory Program. He holds M.A. in education management and English language teaching. He wrote the poem as a student.
E-mail: volkan.incecay@yeditepe.edu.tr

Come Along for the Ride

ever Touched an olive on its tree?
this is where Homer was born and composed Odyssey,
watched the azure waters wash paradise-like scenery?
Aegean is all about living in Turkey…

to the soUth lies another region,
fertile soils are the land for roses and cotton,
history and nature hug each other in this section
living in Turkey is all about Mediterranean…

ever heaRd the silent screams of girls
or maybe the deafening sounds of weapons?
here boiling hot and dry are summers.
never do we visit these small villages in darkness…

mountains are the highest,
and the earth is the largest,
severe winters with degrees the lowest,
the earthquaKes here are the saddest…

skies are always grey with plentIful rain,
forests are breathtaking and green is terrain,
like a never ending journey on a train,
Black sea welcomes you if you ever wish to attain…

Ottoman capitals occupY the northwest of country,
the last one is not just a city but the trailer of Turkey,
a bridge between Europe and Asia serving asymmetry
Marmara causing feelings related with pleasantry

central Anatolia in the land’s hEart,
cradle for civilizations at the very start,
aware of the emotions created by Yunus Emre or not?
will love this country till death do us apart…