BEAMS OF LOVE — Rakip Eertuğrul Eriz

A beam is a slender ray of light radiating from its source It offers illumination and peace within Poetry too shines like a beam from the heart of the poet It becomes love longing youthful emotion In essence it becomes life itself To the reader it serves as a guiding light in the darkness Just as the pink tulip is the symbol of innocence Poetry gives voice to the purest most heartfelt feelings The poems in this book are beams of emotion of love of longing of youth and of the bittersweet truths that life holds Each poem flows from the poet s soul as beams of sincerity reflected gently to you the reader With every poem you read you will find something of yourself as if you had written it with your own hand And as long as inspiration fills his heart and ink flows from his pen the poet tells us in the verses below why he writes and why he must AS LONG AS INK FLOWS Let my pen remain my confidant until my final breath So that the life I ve lived won t simply vanish Let my passion never fade my ink never dry May my words live on in this fleeting world As long as ink flows from my pen may life be born May the inspirations of my heart breathe on each page So long as I have time in this world I vow to keep writing To leave behind my share in the echo beneath the sky Rakip Ertuğrul Eriz of Skopje