
You know the unique, time-stopping scent of classrooms; a blend of chalk dust, old wood, and a faint sweetness of nervous energy... But what truly brings a classroom to life is not its painted walls nor the blackboard standing in the corner. The true spirit of the classroom lies deep within the worn, time-worn school desks, their surfaces smoothed by years of elbows resting upon them. Are there not names carved into those desks with a compass point or a ballpoint pen during the most tedious mome
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Nida Üstün

Human beings occupy in the universe a space equal to the volume of their own emptiness. But some spirits fill that emptiness with such a sharp, unyielding seepage that even the silence left behind becomes a roaring river. Nilgün Marmara was one of those delicate and unyielding voices who treated this planet as a two-step lodging and watched its backyards early on, choosing departure as an act of will to preserve her own truth. Her poetry is a spiritual journey that wanders at the limits of endur
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Nursena Şahin
DoDo you understand what I keep hidden inside? The sentences I could never say, the ones that remain within me? Can you read me in my eyes, The silent thoughts I have nurtured in my heart? Do you know what I think through the nights, The memories left behind in the past? Can you hear the storms that break within me, The feelings I could never tell anyone? Can you see beyond the smile on my face, The resentment I hide, the silence within me? Will you ever truly understand me, When I sometimes canno
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