"Frodo'nun Yolculuğu" serisindeki 14. bölüm için bestelediğim ağıt. 

Yüzüklerin Efendisi - Orta Dünya kanalı: https://www.youtube.com/c/OrtaD%C3%BCnya_yuzuklerin_efendisi

Frodo'nun Yolculuğu Serisi: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLX_ZOahg2BtDDuq2wtYfrAGANTSH1E5uY

Şiir: J.R.R. Tolkien
Çeviri: Bülent Somay
Beste/Vokal: Yusuf Karaoğlu

"shire’da akşam alınca kurşun rengini
ayak sesleri duyulurdu tepe’de;
tan vaktinden önce giderdi
tek söz etmeden, uzun bir seyahate.

yabaneller’den ta batıkıyıları‘na
kuzeydeki ıssızlardan, güneydeki tepelere
gizli kapıdan, ejderha ininden,
geçti karanlık ormanlardan keyfince.

cüce, hobbit, elf ve insanla
ölümlü ve ölümsüz ahaliyle
daldaki kuşla, indeki hayvanla
konuştu kendi gizli lisanlarında.

ölümcül bir kılıç ve şifalı bir elle,
bükülüyordu beli yükü altında,
çınlayan sesi ve yanan işaretiyle,
yorgun bir hacıydı kendi yolunda.

tahtına kurulmuş bir irfan sahibi
kızmakta çabuk, daha da kolay gülmesi
yaşlı bir adam şapkası hırpani
yaslanmış duruyor, asası dikenli.

köprüde durdu bir başına
ne ateşe pabuç bıraktı ne de gölgeye;
asası kırıldı taşa vurunca
irfanı öldü gitti khazad-dûm’da."

Gandalf'a Ağıt

Boğaziçi Game Jam için yaptığımız Gudbrand oyununun müziği.

Gudbrand: https://erencalayir.itch.io/gudbrand

Gudbrand - Boss Theme (Boğaziçi Game Jam)

Poet: Yunus Emre 
Translate: Talat Halman
Read: Haluk Bilginer
Music Composer: Yusuf E. Karaoğlu

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Go and let it be known to all lovers:
I am the man who gave his heart to love.
I turn into a wild duck of passion,
I am the one who takes the swiftest dive.

From the waves of the sea I take water
And offer it all the way to the skies.
In adoration, like a cloud, I soar
I am the one who flies to heavens above.

He who says he sees, doesn't, though he vows;
That man doesn't know if he claims he knows.
He alone is the One who knows and shows.
I am the man who has become love's slave.

For true lovers, this land is Paradise;
Those who know find mansions and palaces;
Wonder struck and adoring like Moses,
I remain on Mount Sinai where I thrive.

Yunus is my name, I'm out of my mind.
Love serves as my guide to the very end.
All alone, toward the majestic Friend
I walk kissing the ground-and I arrive.

Yunus Emre Poem I - w/Haluk Bilginer

Mezzopotamia

Level VII

Poet: Yunus Emre
Translate: Talat Halman
Read: Haluk Bilginer
Music Composer: Yusuf E. Karaoğlu

/////

Those who have mastered life’s meaning shall know no pain,
The hearts that feel God’s truth will never die in vain.

Flesh is mortal, not the soul; the dead can’t return.
Only the body dies, souls can never be slain.

Hearts may take a hundred roads to find life’s essence;
Unless one has God’s grace one has nothing to gain.

Take care, don’t break the loved one’s heart, it’s made of glass;
Once broken, you can’t put it together again.

God created the world for the Prophet’s friendship;
Those who come into this world go, they can’t remain.

Yunus Emre Poem II - w/Haluk Bilginer

Poet: Yunus Emre
Translate: Talat Halman
Read: Haluk Bilginer
Music Composer: Yusuf E. Karaoğlu

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My God, what pain is this which has no remedy?
What wound is this, it bleeds, yet no mortal can see?

This lonely heart of mine can’t ever tire of love,
It goes and falls in love, never returns to me.

My heart turns around and showers me with advice:
True love can never make the lover grow weary.

The lover knows that all the worldly possessions
And all our fears of hell are not worth a penny.

Saying he’s dead, they chant prayers for the lover,
Death is for beasts, it’s not the lover’s destiny.

Yunus Emre Poem III - w/Haluk Bilginer

no one knows how it feels
and how a bird becomes blue
all those lies in your ears
and somehow it comes true

ah, now you realize 
all the things that happened to you 
but why?

nothing left on your hands
you feel grey but it's black
time moves around you
but there is no way to back

ah, now you realize 
all the things that happened to you
but why? 
you know it's worth.


Things That Happened To You

Memories

something in the way she moves
attracts me like no other lover
something in the way she woos me

I don't want to leave her now
you know I believe and how

somewhere in her smile she knows
that I don't need no other lover
something in her style that shows me

I don't want to leave her now
you know I believe and how

you're asking me will my love grow
I don't know, I don't know
you stick around now it may show
I don't know, I don't know

something in the way she knows
and all I have to do is think of her
something in the things she shows me

don't want to leave her now
you know I believe and how

Something

(this painting belongs to Charles Courtney Curran.)

Yusuf

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