Hope
Bright, strong
Growing, shining, inspiring
It gives me strengths to keep going
Light

I walk into a quiet room with one small window. Everything is gray but I can see tiny flowers growing near the wall. A warm feeling slowly fills the air. Then soft light enters through the window and touches everything. Suddenly, the room doesn’t feel empty anymore.

Şevval

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Color
bright, vivid
shining, glowing, spreading
It paints the whole around us
Sea

I am in the middle of the sea
there is ship there
It’s blue, like ocean
It gives me peace like sea and my mother
embrace
a late afternoon

Secem

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Bells
Joyous, merry, used for everything
Tiny, portable or giant
Sometimes might be devastating
Streets and churches ring, this is fascinating
Bells always feel inspiring

Cansu

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Rock
Resilient, hard
Holding, throwing, weighting
It only breaks under the great pressure
Heaviness

I walk through the desert, stopping in front of the light castle
There is no one around
It’s impossible to enter. A high mountain is looking down at me. The wind sharply blows around but wouldn’t hurt a soul. It feels like a dream you wish to explore more, but it feels scary to be there by myself. No one to share a thought with. A little feather falling down.

Laura

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Mountain
Imposing, majestic
Climbing, reaching, surpassing
The place the nature didn’t want
human to go
Kill

The place no one was supposed to go
Snow and ice have covered everything
Someone is coming slowly to take them away from the poisoned beauty

Paul

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Jungle
Green
Fresh (air)
Walking (in the jungle)
Watching (the scene)
Raining
Tree

I just opened my eyes in a fresh air
wherever I look is green
There is so much oxygen that it is able to blow my mind
The nature constructs so many wooden houses that may be a life for them
The sun is barely visible when I looked up
And then the air helps me to sleep easier when I breathe deeply

Çağan

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The women before me 

While the recipes holding comfort got bleached with time 
Its taste lingers in the kitchen of my grandmas tea 
Making me feel just quite at ease 
Life moves fast and, I am knitting slow 
Like my mom thought me quite some time ago 
Every loop filled with ancestry 
I’m shaped out of the love they have for me 
Sometimes the taste seems so strong – I forget she is gone 

Nelli

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Your eyes
Shining, colorful, full-life
It makes me an idiot, like someone who doesn’t know what they’re doing
I am in between sunshine and your eyes
The sun reveals original color of your eyes
as a honey blonde
Hours and minutes are passing while I was looking to your eyes
Yet, I have been there just a moment

Ilhan

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Mountaintop
majestic, snowy
emerging, reaching, breathe-taking
I can feel the icy freeze
above the sea level
Sun

Rustic bench I sit on
People like barely noticeable dots
can’t see what I see now
Sun in the reach of my hand
Sun off their site
Sun on my cheek
Sun melting the ice
Sun

Ewe