Gurkan Gurkas

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Aug 16, 2024, 6:29 AM

Oh, have you ever known How truly charming you are when you look on with these beautiful eyes? Neither you nor I or spooky coincidences and harsh fate nor the crowd entertained by the sea waves’ bizarre voice and the sun’s inevitable fade, can find...

Feb 10, 2022, 6:03 AM

Going Astray – 2

From the world to your world then beyond all worlds -2 We often stick around the ‘searching / seeking’ but rarely pay attention on ‘going astray’ itself. Therefore, we cannot grasp the deep meaning of ‘the search’ for us. The going...

Jul 9, 2021, 1:59 PM

From serfhood (truth of life) to selfhood (truth of self) The herd does not forgive those who leave it as that creates discomfort in them along with the feeling of disintegration. Because the herd's attitudes and stances against truth and freedom,...

Jun 22, 2021, 2:07 PM

Then love has come

Love has a heavy taste that empty words once fly like birds begin falling to the ground one by one Everything is on the tip of my tongue and I can’t even open my mouth from that weight Neither loneliness nor reality can alleviate Like...

Mar 7, 2021, 1:55 PM

from the world to your world then beyond all worlds The unquestioning consciousness does not go astray because it is afraid to ask questions, all it knows is to obey and follow only known and visible answers. Because what matters...

Feb 28, 2021, 3:26 PM

The Manifesto of Democratic Love – 2

As I said in my previous piece, love is the most complex unification/combination of feelings that one has towards another. It would not be wrong to say that love is the most necessary, direct and natural relationship of human...

Feb 14, 2021, 12:17 PM

The Manifesto of Democratic Love

Love is the most complex unification/combination of feelings that one has towards another. However, the unification/combination of feelings should be expressed on the basis of philosophical & political/ideological context in order to exchange & give the meaning of feelings...

Feb 7, 2021, 12:19 PM

Perfect Balance

Grace does not occur unless sincerity and kindness are combined. Ingenuity does not occur unless effort and ability are combined. Beauty does not occur unless aesthetic and intellect are combined. Love does not occur unless affection and feelings are combined. The truth does...

Jan 31, 2021, 1:04 PM

It was not the Devil or the God neither the bigotry nor the ignorance or the doom and conspiracy armies that occupied the entire world From deepest oceans to high mountains and to the Arctic airs and hot desert sands from a fish’s stomach’s to...

Jan 25, 2021, 12:22 PM

From You to Yourself

When the time comes You are gonna leave yourself to seek for the meaning of life... Until you found out feeling of emptiness of being somewhere and realising of incompleteness of being somebody... But will still want to stay away from yourself By giving new names...

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About Me

Originally from Istanbul, Turkey, Gurkan is an Oxford BA (Hons) graduated and pursuing a double master's in International Political Economy at Warwick & Strategic Studies at NTU in Singapore. He is also a published poet.