My country:
\ngoats on the Ankara plain:
\nthe sheen of blond, silky, long furs.
\nThe fat plump hazelnuts of Giresun.
\nThe fragrant red-cheeked apples of Amasya,
\nolive
\nfig
\nmelon
\nand of all colours
\nbunches and bunches of grapes
\nand then the plough
\nand then the black ox
\nand then: ready to accept
\neverything
\nadvanced, beautiful and good
\nwith the joyous admiration of a child
\nmy hard-working, honest, brave people
\nhalf hungry, half full
\nhalf slave\u2026<\/p>\n
From Nazim Hikmet’s stirring poem “I Love My Country” My country: goats on the Ankara plain: the sheen of blond, silky, long furs. The fat plump hazelnuts of Giresun. The fragrant red-cheeked apples of Amasya, olive fig melon and of all colours bunches and bunches of grapes and then the plough and then the black ox and then: ready to accept everything advanced, beautiful … Continue reading i love my country – a poem by nazim hikmet<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2991"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2991"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22009,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2991\/revisions\/22009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nTranslated from the Turkish by Fuat Engin<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"