I'm Honored

There are some people/names in my humble life that I will never forget them. One of them, is my beautiful poet Chen-ou! I'm honored by his beautiful poem, and I cried too. Poetry is what I can't express now but what I can feel in the depth of my heart.
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Thank you my dear Chen-ou!
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A Cherita for Nia Sunset who introduced me to Wild Poetry.
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Into Spaces Untold, Unknown
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rain tapping on the window
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I gaze upon the ellipses
at the end of your poem
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these dots bespeak a falling
into spaces untold, unknown
that strike me with their longing
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28 December, 2009
By Chen-ou Liu

I close my writing world

We cannot do great things on this Earth, only small things with great love.”
Mother Teresa
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There would be something to say, but silence hits me;
where I am; who I am; why I am I don’t know anymore
between the stories of the years
I am lost…
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The language what I speak
the language what I write poetry
the language what I cry
the language what I feel
like a stone, falling down
into my heart;
so broken... crying without tears.
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I’m nobody; I’m a lost one
having no place in this world
I should close my desk now
no pen, no paper
anymore.
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The power of love
nothing did something
something should be a mistake;
I should make a voyage again,
to myself; I should find the power
of love again.
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Into the silence…
Just listening to myself
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where did I make a wrong…
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(It was first day of October, 2009! How fastly runs time... From the beginning till today!)

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Like Fallen Snow

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X33698McQ7g

“We cannot do great things on this Earth, only small things with great love.” Mother Teresa______________________________ ______________________________ _________

..............................for one of my best poet friends, You will not die. You will not.

Like Fallen Snow
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Life is flowing;
spring comes from a door,
and flies everything from a window…
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Nothing can (be) hid(d)e(n) from the sun light.
Mountains become night first of all,
then dark magenta and then purple
but at the end meet with greenness and soil…
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And you
and me
and they
and we
we all pass through a door,
we sail from a window
and we wait before another door
but then all of us
disappear at the last door
in the same flowing life.
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We all go and are being changed colours
like seasons.
Our faces; how young and excited,
then how matured and calm.
We can salute the life then…
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And as a tired(oldest) mountains silently
we wait for the sunrise at the dawn.
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In the sedimentary of our own life
with the greatness of endurance and virtuousness
we repeate the song of life
as whispering…
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And you
and me
and they
and we,
we all cry and also smile
into the same rhythm
of earth
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it means
neither completely to come
and nor completely to go…
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The essence of the earth
as always is there
we just make this existence of flowing life
to strengthen,
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that’s all.
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16-17 September, 2009
nia sunset

Cherry Cake and Sage and Paw

And Saturday, at home... Because of the rain. I just played with my camera again. There wasn't daylight indoors and I took this with flash, (even the electricity has been gone for a while) I watied for oven too for this cherry cake :) But I am glad it came back very soon. A cup of sage (how I miss to drink tea!!! I was drinking too much in a day, but now it is forbidden because of my stomach problem) Sage tea is not bad... I love it. It smells so nicely. And finally my Princess in her basket (at my desk) she was sleeping but as always she left me when I took her paw and tail. I don't know why she doesn't like my camera... She is afraid as if.

And yes, at the end, Zbigniew Preisner's album reached my address yesterday. We thought that they forgot us, but my son wrote to Amazon and then I received. "Silence, Nights and Dreams"! Wonderful. Actually I love his music and I wish to have all his albums, he is very special musician, composer. Especially the film Tree Colours, Blue, Red and White... that he composed all these soundtracks.

Crazy Rain

Rain... The rain... Hit the city again. Makes me afraid. It doesn't rain normal and I worry for another disaster in the city.I was indoors and I watched the rain behind the windows. Sometimes I couldn't see out side because of the rain. It rained so fastly and so heavily... I haven't seen such a rain like that in all my life. And now stopped. But what did it make to the city, right now I don't know. Did any flood happen again, did the houses get flood again where they were built on waterway (or)course... I pray and wish no more bad news. I hope.

"Crazy Rain from my windows"

Crazy rain

I don't remember such a rain

like that;what changed

I don't understand

we are or the earth?

They say that climates changed

seasons skipped...

But human...

Human world...

When will we get the harmony

again between nature world

and us?

But instead of these matters

we figtht with each of us

politicians talk more than

scientists

and we all watch

on TV screens...

Crazy rain

hit once again

when the flood is gone

what will remain?

Blue and Black

There is not a time interval; there is darkness and light like night and day. From day to night we are being dragged. Sometimes hungry, sometimes saturated, sometimes sleepless, and sometimes strong.

And now, where I am and in which time period are not clear. I listen to my heartbeatings into the deep silence.

How deeply beats my heart;
I am here,
and I am not here too.

There is an eternal calmness
between my fears and darkness
and everything is deceptive

like city lights.

While the sun is rising
everything will be clear one by one
and it will hit me again

and I will burst into tears.

Just a sign! Just for a sign
I would give a world now.

The silent sea seems in night black
like a monster, stalks me.
I close my eyes.

The beating my heart becomes like a thousand

flapping wings of fearful birds.

The blue is painted to the black; like a black glove
I put on the sorrow in me, in the dept of me…

Without farewell we departed silently.
The colours of the season is faded;

only you and I

counted the leaves…

Between death and life

I am tired to deceive myself;

my soul like a lost planet

without a circle,
goes to the emptiness.
You know this too.
The meaning of disappeared

is this
for the other.

You died, I live the death.

12 September, 2009

Mimar Sinan

Kemerburgaz Aqueduct, Istanbul

Kovuk Aqueduct

Aqueduct

Mağlova Aqueduct

Uzun Aqueduct
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"In two days of flooding 31 people have died in northwestern Turkey, including 24 people in Istanbul, which was hit by the worst flooding in decades. Flash floods caused by heavy rainfall that hit northwestern Turkey killed 31 people over two days in the region, with 24 of them on the streets of Istanbul, the country’s largest city."

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http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=flash-floods-immerse-istanbul-highway-stranding-dozens-of-2009-09-09

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Something goes wrong... The rain was not normal but was the people ready for this heavy rain? And were the buildings, roads and bridges ready for this rain. There are a lot of questions now, I hope and wish we don't live this again .

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Today I remembered the great architect Mimar Sinan... More than 500 years ago he was knowing very well this area and he made his all projects according this rain falls and flooding...

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From time "1560s" to the time "todays", 2009... I hope you would proud of us, your descendants Great Architect "Mimar Sinan"!

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Koca Mimar Sinan Ağa (15 April 1489 - 17 July 1588) was the chief Ottoman architect and civil engineer for sultans Suleiman I, Selim II, and Murad III. He was, during a period of fifty years, responsible for the construction or the supervision of every major building in the Ottoman Empire. More than three hundred structures are credited to his name.

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History of art professionals over time resulting from land erosion of the lake off and even buried Mağlova Belt worrying while in the water level again rose Alibeyköy Dam. Residents in historic arch over the fishing lake, fishing at the dam began a tour boat in the lake.

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Robust as in the past that appears Mağlova Belt, 1 in century were built to bring water to Istanbul. Since the early Byzantine period İstanbul's water network is functioning, by Kanuni Sultan Süleyman to Mimar Sinan renew. Sinan, system architects and staff with a huge funding renewed. Bring water to Istanbul, which is one of the 3 major networks also Kırkçeşme water-supply, supported by Belgrade forest and Kemerburgaz various bent and Istanbul Eyüp was brought over Eğrikapı mahsenine fed peninsula. Bent of this system, a long, Güzelce, Muderris village and begins with Belt Mağlova pool was Mimar Sinan.

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Süleymaniye and Selimiye mosques in civil architecture that has been declared as precious in the dam lake is currently Alibeyköy Mağlova Belts, belts in two rows were performed. According to the rumors of Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent, Mimar Sinan in, "so one would you bring water, Istanbul's neighborhoods, children and senior citizens to come and test with water filling and my state for my life I pray they" built and in the words of arch, space isolated from the structural skeleton only belt architecture rather than the structural organization of the best examples on Earth is considered.

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Mimar Sinan between 1554-1562 by 35 meters in height and 257 meters long time carried out on Mağlova Alibey der Belt, functional area of a building by the architect Sinan's genius, a concrete example of how that constitutes transferred. Wide double-arched middle section of the floor along the slope of the flood runner and spur continued into the square and sloping ledge on top of the search separated by arches were laid. Connected by arches at the side slopes of this magnificent structure, of the Romans Pont du Gard in France belt seen in the equivalent. Damaged by large floods 1563'teki belt 1564'te repair is completed.

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Between the years 1554-1562 by Mimar Sinan in Istanbul, which has been done on Alibey Deresi valley aqueduct. Today in the border town of Gaziosmanpaşa is located near the village of Cebeci. Although in 1563 the same year to repair flood-damaged has been reinstated. The lake water in the dam works Alibeyköy one of the four covers. Belt continues to carry water to Istanbul. Works of architecture world water is considered as one of the masterpiece.

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Mimar Sinan and His Water Roads in Kemer:
1. Bend Belt (Kağıthâne'de),

2. Long Belt (Kemerburgaz),

3. Mağlava Belt (Kemerburgaz),

4. Eyed by Kemer (Cebeciköy'de),

5. Muderris belt near the village (Kemerburgaz).
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After the Forth Crusade’s sack of Constantinople and the establishment of the Latin Empire in 1204, water supply systems, which were built during the Roman period, inside and outside the city walls were totally blasted.

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After the Ottoman conquest of Istanbul, one of the matters to be dealt with first by Sultan Mehmed II. the Conqueror was to meet the city’s running water requirements. Sultan Mehmed II. (Fatih) ordered a thorough repair of all water supply systems. In the course of time increasing population let to water shortages. Sultan Süleyman the Magnificent commissioned Sinan, his engineer and architect-in-chief, to solve this problem. Sinan undertook important works for the supply of water to the cities of Istanbul and Edirne. The Kırkçeşme System was rebuilt and redesigned by Sinan in 1555 – 1563/4. The preliminary studies were made under the constant supervision of Sultan Süleyman, and Sinan adopted a scientific approach in this task where mathematics held an important place. Istanbul's water was stored in the large number of reservoirs in the Belgrade Forest and conveyed to the city over aqueducts; this water then passed through distribution chambers located at various points in the city and thence was distributed to buildings and fountains within the city. Water from the Alibey and Kâğıthane streams was collected in pools and channeled to Eğrikapı and from there to the inner city. Due to the fact that there were no pipes about to withstand the excessive pressure, aqueducts were built to carry the water over the valleys. It can be observed that the precise measurements and calculations made in establishing waterways and in construction of the water supply lines, aqueducts and accumulation pools were just as reliable as those made today by means of modern instruments. It incorporates 33 large and small aqueducts, five of which are known to have been built by Sinan.

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There are four aqueducts in the Kırkçeşme supply system, completed in 1563: Uzun Kemer, Eğri (Kovuk) Kemer, Güzelce (Gözlüce) Kemer and Mağlova Kemer. Even in the driest months of the year the Kırkçeşme system, with a discharge of 4,200 m3 per day, was able to supply 158 different locations (94 public drinking fountains, 19 wells, 15 watering troughs, 13 public baths and 7 palaces among others.) The Halkalı water distribution system was also built by Sinan and provided water to Istanbul. It included the 50 km long Süleymaniye waterduct, which provided water to the Süleymaniye Complex and its neighborhood.

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In order to maintain pressure, water towers were built in a number of locations; one of these can be seen in Ayasofia Square. There is another stone water tower next to the Şehzade Mosque, which, judging by its Baroque profile must be l8th century.

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Works started in the reign of Sultan Mehmed II. the Conqueror were intensified when Süleyman the Magnificent was on the throne, continued throughout the reign of Mahmud I and, finally, of Abdülhamid II; this was a scheme that continued over a period of 500 years to satisfy Istanbul's demand for water with a system of reservoirs, aqueducts and supply lines, together with the fountains connected to them.