{"id":11830,"date":"2015-12-03T13:37:50","date_gmt":"2015-12-03T11:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oguztansel.org\/?page_id=11830"},"modified":"2017-04-01T08:27:47","modified_gmt":"2017-04-01T05:27:47","slug":"mutluluk-pesinde","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.oguztansel.org\/en\/mutluluk-pesinde\/","title":{"rendered":"IN PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"mutluluk<\/a><\/p>\n

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IN PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS<\/strong><\/p>\n

1<\/strong>
\nIn the tale of the Dark World
\nI am the youngest one
\nThrough the well from which the wounded giant went down
\nI am going to the treasures of the underworld
\nIf I return all the ornaments are yours
\nThe more I burn the farther I go down,
\nThe farther I go down the more I burn
\nOn my waist the ropes of all ships
\nIn the first of the dark worlds
\nTied up like a bunch of carnations
\nI freed the three beautiful maidens
\nThe black sheep is the most beautiful
\nThe white sheep is the pupil of my eye
\nLiquid fire is the centre of the world
\nIn the central part of this centre
\nThere has to be a kernel
\nThat, the nucleus of all seeds
\nThat doesn\u2019t melt or burn down
\nIf only we could bring it up
\nWe won\u2019t need the sun
\nThen it will spread by its own volition
\nFraternity, goodness and beauty
\nWill cover the world like grasses
\nLet the giant stay here
\nI don\u2019t shoot an arrow at a wounded eagle
\nLet us return to our arduous journey<\/p>\n

2<\/strong>
\nI overcame a salamander first
\nExchanged my organs with his
\nIn the midst of an unimaginable fire
\nI am walking, armored
\nIn the dawn of the corals
\nFirst I found my lost eyes
\nMy hands are among the real suns
\nMy arms extend for miles
\nGolden mountains, diamond mountains
\nNot valuable at all to me
\nThe red topaz, the sapphires
\nThe emeralds, the jades
\nThe sun-eyes, and the moonstones
\nI am throwing them all over the earth like a volcano
\nAmazed bright eyes look at me
\nOf the snakes like the trunk of a pine
\nIn this world of no days and nights
\nOn a crocodile\u2019s back, on a fish\u2019s neck
\nLike a cormorant diving and coming up
\nI am looking for the nucleus
\nExcept the colors and the dimensions
\nIt was exactly like our world
\nI did not see a worshipping creature
\nThe words for war and peace did not exist
\nFirst I felt ashamed for killing the salamander
\nThen I thought about the back of the crocodile and of the fish
\nMy apologies to the animals<\/p>\n

3<\/strong>
\nTo cut the long story short
\nLittle we went further
\nMuch we went deeper
\nWe reached the seed of happiness
\nIt looks just like a heart
\nSwims like a fish
\nIt has the flame of all lovers
\nLike a flood is the flow of light from it
\nThe crippled get limbs if rubbed,
\nThe blind see when touched
\nGolden-eyed fish, emerald birds
\nDiamond-eyed snakes, ruby trees
\nAll talked with joy
\nTo turn our world into a paradise
\nAll creatures hand in hand in harmony
\nWill deliver it to the world<\/p>\n

O\u011fuz Tansel<\/strong>
\nTranslated by Ays\u0131t Tansel
\nWorld of Tales, Elips Kitap, 2012<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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