"YOU ARE AS HUMAN AS YOU CAN LOVE" RUMISABUNCU's Profile
Welcome to the spectacular crossroads of cultures. On the border between Asia and Europe and surrounded by three seas, Turkey offers you exotic landscapes, a dreamy coastline and the hospitality of a people worthy of knowing. The rock formations of Cappadocia, which are totaly unique in the world. The extraordinary Blue Mosque or the ancient city of Troy are just some ofthe amazing sites waiting to be discovered in one of the most magical destination in the world. And the extensive coastline of the Turkish Riviera, also popularly known as the Turquoise Coast, invites you to relax and be seduced by its stunning beaches, lush forest and spectacular cliffs and caves. The Antalya Province is a tourist paradise. Its high cliffs over The Mediterranean, its mountains, mysterious caves and ancient remains from at least 5 civilizations make it an outstanding destination.
I'm an forest engineer and I attended and finished Forest economy and forest genetic Msc. I have been working as a researcher about forest genetic and tree breeding for 18 years in Antalya. Now I am incharge of afforestation and rehabilitation degraded forest. I visited many countries in europe to attend some meeting about my subject "forest genetic. Mevlana, has expressed that the Universe was the endless field of existence of the God and that human being carried a God-Like quality as a part of a whole by saying ? Hey, whoever looks for the God, it is you what you look for ?
Come, come again whoever, whatever you may be come
Heaten, fire-worshipper, sinner of idolatry, come
Come even if you have broken your penilence hundred times
Ours is not the portal of despair or misery come
MEVLANA CELALEDDIN-I RUMI
As would be seen in the foregoing verses, ? Mevlana? believed in brotherhood of all humanity and difference among religions would not be related with the God-Like presence.
Your love has wrested me away from me,
You're the one I need, you're the one I crave.
Day and night I burn, gripped by agony,
You're the one I need, you're the one I crave.
I find no great joy in being alive,
If I cease to exist, I would not grieve,
The only solace I have is your love,
You're the one I need, you're the one I crave.
Lovers yearn for you, but your love slays them,
At the bottom of the sea it lays them,
It has God's images-it displays them;
You're the one I need, you're the one I crave.
Let me drink the wine of love sip by sip,
Like Mecnun, live in the hills in hardship,
Day and night, care for you holds me in its grip,
You're the one I need, you're the one I crave.
Even if, at the end, they make me die
And scatter my ashes up to the shy,
My pit would break into this outcry:
You're the one I need, you're the one I crave.
"Yunus Emre the mystic" is my name,
Each passing day fans and rouses my flame,
What I desire in both worlds in the same:
You're the one I need, you're the one I crave.
PIR SULTAN ABDAL
The rough man entered the lover's garden
It is woods now, my beautiful one, it is woods,
Gathering roses, he has broken their stems
They are dry now, my beautiful one, they are dry
In this square our hide is stretched
Blessed be, we saw our friend off to God
One day, too, black dust must cover us
We will rot, my beautiful one, we will rot
He himself reads and He also writes
God's holy hand has closed her crescent eyebrows
Your peers are wandering in Paradise
They are free, my beautiful one, they are free
Whatever religion you are, I'll worship it too
I will be torn off with you even the Day of Judgement
Bend for once, let me kiss you on your white neck
Just stay there for a moment, my beautiful one, just stay there
I'm Pir Sultan Abdal, I start from the root
I eat the kernel and throw out the evil weed
And weave from a thousand flowers to one hive honey
I am an honest bee, my beautiful one, an honest bee.
On Living
I
Living is no laughing matter:
you must live with great seriousness
like a squirrel, for example--
I mean without looking for something beyond and above living,
I mean living must be your whole occupation.
Living is no laughing matter:
you must take it seriously,
so much so and to such a degree
that, for example, your hands tied behind your back,
your back to the wall,
or else in a laboratory
in your white coat and safety glasses,
you can die for people--
even for people whose faces you've never seen,
even though you know living
is the most real, the most beautiful thing.
I mean, you must take living so seriously
that even at seventy, for example, you'll plant olive trees--
and not for your children, either,
but because although you fear death you don't believe it,
because living, I mean, weighs heavier.
On Living
II
Let's say you're seriously ill, need surgery--
which is to say we might not get
from the white table.
Even though it's impossible not to feel sad
about going a little too soon,
we'll still laugh at the jokes being told,
we'll look out the window to see it's raining,
or still wait anxiously
for the latest newscast ...
Let's say we're at the front--
for something worth fighting for, say.
There, in the first offensive, on that very day,
we might fall on our face, dead.
We'll know this with a curious anger,
but we'll still worry ourselves to death
about the outcome of the war, which could last years.
Let's say we're in prison
and close to fifty,
and we have eighteen more years, say,
before the iron doors will open.
We'll still live with the outside,
with its people and animals, struggle and wind--
I mean with the outside beyond the walls.
I mean, however and wherever we are,
we must live as if we will never die.
On Living
IIIIII
This earth will grow cold,
a star among stars
and one of the smallest,
a gilded mote on blue velvet--
I mean this, our great earth.
This earth will grow cold one day,
not like a block of ice
or a dead cloud even
but like an empty walnut it will roll along
in pitch-black space ...
You must grieve for this right now
--you have to feel this sorrow now--
for the world must be loved this much
if you're going to say "I lived" ...
The most beautiful sea hasn't been crossed yet.
The most beautiful child hasn't grown up yet.
Our most beautiful days we haven't seen yet.
And the most beautiful words I wanted to tell you
I love my country . . .
I love my country . . .
I swung in its lofty trees, I lay in its prisons.
Nothing relieves my depression
Like the songs and tobacco of my country.
. . . and then my working, honest, brave people.
Ready to accept with the joy of a wondering child,
everything,
progressive, lovely, good,
half hungry, half full.
half slave . . .
Nazim HIKMET
[I love my country]. Selected poems, 1968)
SEN
sen esirligim ve hurriyetimsin,
ciplak bir yaz gecesi gibi yanan etimsin,
sen memleketimsin.
Sen ela gozlerinde yesil hareler,
sen buyuk, guzel ve muzaffer
ve ulasildikca ulasilmaz olan hasretimsin...
Nazim Hikmet
1948
RUMISABUNCU
“To live! Like a tree single and at liberty and brotherly like the trees of a forest THIS YEARNING IS OURS”
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Thank you. I am on train now, going home. Can't wait to take some photos. For now, I can't send VT mails from my phone, but I could read your mail.
Thanks for your answer to 'LYCIAN WAY ALINCA'. Thanks for your advice.
You're welcome dear friend. I have been living here for 20 years so when do you need help I am ready reply you .
Thanks for your answer to 'Where to stay in Artvin?'. Thanks for your advice.
You're welcome, When do you need help about your Artvin travel you will write to me.Have a nice day to you.
Thanks for your answer to 'Denizli Bus station'.
No we originally were thinking of going there but due to time restrictions have decided to skip Antalya for this trip.
If you decide to visit Antalya Please informed me I can help you for a short trip. have a nice holiday to you! all my best wishes.
Thanks for your answer to 'Fethyie accommodation'. Thanks for your advice.
You're welcome my dear friend. I am so happy If I helped to you a little bit.
Have a good day!
Yes, when spring is around, is like everything is coming back to life again..
I agree with you!!!!Have a nice evening to you!
I am thoroughly enjoying your pages. Such beautiful writing!
What wonderful reading and your photographs are amazing! I appreciate your warm greetings. We had six inches of snow this week! I would love to visit Turkey and will add it to my wish list--one can always dream! Best regards, Leslie
Thank you so much for your writings about my VT pages and also photos. I have been working as a researcher about forest plant genetic for 20 years. When I have a free time take photos and travel in the forest. It will be a great pleasure to meet you in Antalya in TURKEY. I try to prepare a page about plant species of Antalya. You can see some of them my VT "photo library". All my best wishes, Rumi
Thanks for visiting my profile and blog! :) Turkey is also on my whishlist:)
Happy holidays to you too!
Thank you for accepting my friendship
Svetlana Bellon
You're welcome Svetlana, It is great pleasure to be friend with you.