Today is Sunday.
For the first time they took me out into the sun today.
And for the first time in my life I was aghast
that the sky is so far away
and so blue
and so vast
I stood there without a motion.
Then I sat on the ground with respectful devotion
leaning against the white wall.
Who cares about the waves with which I yearn to roll
Or about strife or freedom or my wife right now.
The soil, the sun and me...
I feel joyful and how.
Translated by Talat Sait Halman
Today Is Sunday
Nazim Hikmet
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Poem topics: away, feel, freedom, life, sky, wife, blue, white, wall, joyful, sunday, strife, yearn, devotion, sun, time, today, Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
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