I stand in the advancing light,
my hands hungry, the world beautiful.
My eyes can't get enough of the trees--
they're so hopeful, so green.
A sunny road runs through the mulberries,
I'm at the window of the prison infirmary.
I can't smell the medicines--
carnations must be blooming nearby.
It's this way:
being captured is beside the point,
the point is not to surrender.
Trans. by Randy Blasing and Mutlu Konuk (1993)
It's This Way
Nazim Hikmet
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Poem topics: beautiful, green, light, world, sunny, smell, prison, stand, hungry, window, point, Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
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