KINDAM I
— Dazzling Beauty I —

At the beginning before the universe found its form in infinity
It was a nebulous mass – Dazzling Beauty half asleep, half awake
Was a seamless whole – 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 for form was in the essence of motion.
Billions of light years passed by in a fiery chaos,
Blasts with desire, pileups with joy…
After a long interval the mighty sun took its place;
In one of those firsts the beautiful earth was born.
The clouds carrying the seeds of love tumbled and flew,
The Zodiac was fixed – each planet settled into its orbit;
Brilliant days and tarblack nights came long after;
Much later space produced water from its essence,
And beautiful cumulous clouds with lightnings of longing.
Finally the laws of the universe unraveled the knots.
Magnificent mountains and turbulent waters converged happily.
The marriage of plants and animals was legendary.
Dazzling Beauty leavened the senses and love, then came intelligence.
We walked from the Jovial Dipsizgől enthralled
Accompanied by Dazzling Beauty.

Oğuz Tansel
Translated by Nilüfer Mizanoğlu Reddy
World of Tales, Elips Kitap, 2012