Poems on Traveling by Orhan Veli Kanik

1.

When you’re traveling,
The stars talk to you.
What they say
Is often sad.

2.

The song one whistles
While drunk in the evenings
Is merry.
But the same song
From the inside of a train window
Isn’t.

translated by Murat Nemet-Nejat

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