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A love like this

Whenever I think of you

A little deer drinks from a stream

I see the grasses growing.

Every night with you

A little olive

A piece of blue sea

consumes me.

When I think you

I plant roses where I touch

I give the horses water

I give more love to the hills.

Ne Böyle Sevdalar Gördüm by İlhan Berk

Translated March 22, 2020

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