The Egret and the Little Fish
Fide Erken
The egret walks on the beachand listens to the sound of the sea
She knows this sound
'how beautiful it is' she thinks
Then, there it comes…
a little fish
good for lunch
The egret eats the fish,
now she is the happiest bird in the sea
The sea sound becomes a wonderful melody.
I have a fascination for the simplicity of Fide's poems. She speaks of the bird egret with the most truthful understanding of the earth and its inhabitants. We do not want to kill; nor does egret want to. But egret has to survive. Only humans take more than what is required.
What if we lived there with friendship and peace
We are not birds
but human beings
In the next poem "Birds Over A Tree" Fide expounds this understanding. It seems simple, but it is damnably true and deep. Lion kills a stag, not more, only to survive. Even in the hundreds of floating stags in the forests, lion does not take more.
This is what is special about Fide Erken's poetry. She knows truth is beauty and beauty is truth. Her poems are one of the best combinations of truth and beauty. Every work of Fide is novel, free and beautiful.
Editor
Fide Erken - Fide Erken is a Turkish poet, born in 1967 in Bursa, where she lives and works as an English teacher. She has a degree from Uludag University in English, and writes in both English and Turkish. Writing poetry is "a big and a beautiful part of my life, through which I try to send love from my heart to all the world's people." Her poems, inspired by nature, have been published on many Internet sites and in magazines. She maintains her own site as well. Fide is married and has two daughters.
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