Erzurumlu Emrah

Erzurumlu Emrah (1775, Güzelyurt, Erzurum – 1854, Niksar, Tokat) was a Turkish Turkish folk poet.

Life

He took a madrasah education in Erzurum. He interested in mysticism and was connected the Halidi branch of Nakşibendi, long lived in Sivas and Kastamonu. Erzurum Abdullaziz name with poems written by Emrah are an Erzurum is suppressed by Abdulaziz. Important figures of poetic literature were Karacaoglan, Atik Ömer, Erzurumlu Emrah and Kayserili Aşık Seyrani. Erzurumlu Emrah is believed to have died in 1854 in Niksar.

Turkish lyrics

English translation

El çek tabib el çek yaram üstünden Sen benim derdime deva bilmezsin Sen nasıl tabibsin yoktur ilacın Yaram yürektedir sarabilmezsin Sana derim sana ey kalbi hayın Kimseler çekmesin feleğin yayın Yıkıp harab ettin gönül sarayın Alıp bir taşını koyabilmezsin Emrah'ım dinledin benim sözlerim Muhabettin can evimde gizlerim Ne duruyon ağlasana gözlerim Bir daha yarini görebilmezsin

Get your hand away from my wound, doctor! You don´t know the cure of my pain What kind of a doctor are you? You don't have medicine. My wound is on my heart, you can´t bandage it. I say you, o false-hearted! May nobody pull the string of fate's bow You demolished and destroyed the palace of heart. You can´t take and put back even one stone of it. I am Emrah, you listened to my words. I hide your love in home of my heart: Why do you stop, cry my eyes. You can't see the beloved one more time.

See also

• Turkish folk literature

External links

• Erzurumlu Emrah, Ministry of Culture in Turkey