{"id":215,"date":"2020-09-09T13:02:27","date_gmt":"2020-09-09T13:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oguztansel.bilkent.edu.tr\/en\/?page_id=215"},"modified":"2020-09-09T13:02:27","modified_gmt":"2020-09-09T13:02:27","slug":"kindam-i-dazzling-beauty-i","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/oguztansel.bilkent.edu.tr\/en\/index.php\/literary-personality\/selected-poems\/kindam-i-dazzling-beauty-i\/","title":{"rendered":"Kindam I (Dazzling Beauty I)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>At the beginning before the universe found its form in infinity<br>It was a nebulous mass \u2013 Dazzling Beauty half asleep, half awake<br>Was a seamless whole \u2013 raging, red-hot and lively.<br>Suns, stars, moons were almost non-existent.<br>A luminous cloud: the space was bustling with movement;<br>Colors and seasons were reveling in unity,<br>The struggle for form was in the essence of motion.<br>Billions of light years passed by in a fiery chaos,<br>Blasts with desire, pileups with joy\u2026<br>After a long interval the mighty sun took its place;<br>In one of those firsts the beautiful earth was born.<br>The clouds carrying the seeds of love tumbled and flew,<br>The Zodiac was fixed \u2013 each planet settled into its orbit;<br>Brilliant days and tarblack nights came long after;<br>Much later space produced water from its essence,<br>And beautiful cumulous clouds with lightnings of longing.<br>Finally the laws of the universe unraveled the knots.<br>Magnificent mountains and turbulent waters converged happily.<br>The marriage of plants and animals was legendary.<br>Dazzling Beauty leavened the senses and love, then came intelligence.<br>We walked from the Jovial Dipsizg\u0151l enthralled<br>Accompanied by Dazzling Beauty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>O\u011fuz Tansel<\/strong><br><em>Translated by Nil\u00fcfer Mizano\u011flu Reddy<br>World of Tales, Elips Kitap, 2012<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the beginning before the universe found its form in infinityIt was a nebulous mass \u2013 Dazzling Beauty half asleep, half awakeWas a seamless whole \u2013 raging, red-hot and lively.Suns, stars, moons were almost non-existent.A luminous cloud: the space was bustling with movement;Colors and seasons were reveling in unity,The struggle [\u2026] <\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<p><a class=\"more_link clearfix\" href=\"https:\/\/oguztansel.bilkent.edu.tr\/en\/index.php\/literary-personality\/selected-poems\/kindam-i-dazzling-beauty-i\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":14,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/template-full-width.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oguztansel.bilkent.edu.tr\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/215"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oguztansel.bilkent.edu.tr\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oguztansel.bilkent.edu.tr\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oguztansel.bilkent.edu.tr\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oguztansel.bilkent.edu.tr\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oguztansel.bilkent.edu.tr\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216,"href":"https:\/\/oguztansel.bilkent.edu.tr\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/215\/revisions\/216"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oguztansel.bilkent.edu.tr\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oguztansel.bilkent.edu.tr\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}