The Stations of the Forced Wanderer (Nâzim Hikmet Ran: 20 September 1945)

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Hungarian border police stand guard opposite refugees standing behind a fence at the Hungarian border with Serbia near the town of Horgos on Wednesday: photo by Armend Nimani/AFP, 16 September 2015

Nâzim Hikmet Ran: 20 September 1945

At this late hour
in this autumn night
I am full of your words;
eternal as time and matter
naked as an eye,
heavy as a hand
and gleaming as stars
your words.
 

Your words came to me,
they were of your heart, of your head, of your flesh.
Your words brought you,
they were: mother,
they were: woman
and they were comrade...
They were sad, painful, joyful, hopeful, heroic,
your words were human...
 

Nâzim Hikmet Ran (b. Salonica, 15 January 1902 - d. Moscow, 3 June 1963): 20 September 1945, translated by Fuat Engin

 

A refugee stands in a field at the Hungarian border with Serbia near the town of Horgos. Photo @armend_nimani: image via Stéphane Arnaud @StephaneArnaud, 16 September 2015

Hungarian border police stand guard next to a refugee woman behind a fence at the border with Serbia. @AFP @AFPphoto: image via Stéphane Arnaud @AntAFP, 16 September 2015

While you were waiting at the gate

Refugees stand behind a fence at the Hungarian border with Serbia, near Horgos. #AFP @armend_nimani: image via Aurelia BAILLY  AureliaBAILLY, 16 September 2015

 

Refugees stand behind a fence at the Hungarian border with Serbia, near Horgos. #AFP @armend_nimani: image via Aurelia BAILLY @AureliaBAILLY, 16 September 2015

 
 

Refugees stand behind a fence at the Hungarian border with Serbia, near Horgos. #AFP @armend_nimani: image via Aurelia BAILLY @AureliaBAILLY, 16 September 2015

Refugees stand behind a fence at the Hungarian border with Serbia, near Horgos. Photo @armend_nimani: image via Stéphane Arnaud @StephaneArnaud, 16 September 2015

At the Horgos Station

Drone shot of #Horgos crossing between #Hungary & #Serbia. #Refugees prevented from entering are camping on motorway: image via Oliver Varney @Oliver Varney, 16 September 2015

Desperate scenes on the border between #Serbia & #Hungary as #refugees crowd Hungarian fence and beg to be let in: image via Oliver Varney @Oliver Varney, 16 September 2015  Röszke, Csongrad

 

"Please let us through, my children are sick" Iraqi lady pleads with Hungarian police she can see through gap: image via Oliver Varney @OliverVarney, 16 September 2015

Tear gas and water cannon being fired at #refugees at #Horgos crossing: image via Oliver Varney @OliverVarney, 16 September 2015

Drone shot of #Horgos crossing on #Serbia #Hungary border as clashes start between #refugees and #Hungarian police: image via Oliver Varney @Oliver Varney, 16 September 2015

Water cannon and tear gas fired as migrants face police at Hungary-Serbia border #Horgos #Roszke: image via euronews Verified account @euronews, 16 September 2015

 

Water cannon and tear gas fired as migrants face police at Hungary-Serbia border #Horgos #Roszke: image via euronews Verified account @euronews, 16 September 2015

Water cannon and tear gas fired as migrants face police at Hungary-Serbia border #Horgos #Roszke: image via euronews Verified account @euronews, 16 September 2015

#Hungary police fire tear gas at migrants at Serbia border. Photo @armend_nimani: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 16 September 2015

 

@AFP photo: A refugee faces Hungarian police water cannons during clashes at the border near #Horgos. #refugees: image via Alejandro Alvarez @aletweetsnews, 16 September 2015

 

 Confrontation escalates between migrants, Hungarian riot police at border crossing with Serbia: image via Reuters Top News @Reuters, 16 September 2015

Water cannon and tear gas fired as migrants face police at Hungary-Serbia border #Horgos #Roszke: image via euronews Verified account @euronews, 16 September 2015

  

Tear gas & water cannon attack by Hungarian police on refugees at #Roszke / #Horgos crossing: image via Revolution News @NewsRevo, 16 September 2015

Groups of young men still near #Horgos border but noticeably calmer now since Serbian police went to fence: image via Oliver Varney @Oliver Varney, 16 September 2015

The view from a disused Serbian watchtower where Hungary's border fence ends, few miles from #Horgos. @5News: image via Peter Lane @peterlane5news, 16 September 2015

While you were sleeping

 

BMW chief executive Harald Krueger fainted Tuesday during a press briefing at the IAA auto show in Frankfurt, Germany: image via Agence France-Presse @AFP, 15 September 2015

 

BMW chief executive Harald Krueger fainted Tuesday during a press briefing at the IAA auto show in Frankfurt, Germany: image via Agence France-Presse @AFP, 15 September 2015

 

BMW chief executive Harald Krueger fainted Tuesday during a press briefing at the IAA auto show in Frankfurt, Germany: image via Agence France-Presse @AFP, 15 September 2015


BMW CEO Harald Krueger is helped after he collapsed at a presentation during the media day at the Frankfurt Motor Show (IAA) in Frankfurt, Germany: photo by Kai Pfaffenbach/Reuters, 15 September 2015

The Stations of the Forced Wanderers

#Austria updt: Train circulation to #Germany halted. 100s of #refugees cross by foot #salzburg bridge. Via @Chrislows image via José Miguel Sardo @jmsardo, 16 September 2015

#Austria updt: Train circulation to #Germany halted. 100s of #refugees cross by foot #salzburg bridge. Via @Chrislows image via José Miguel Sardo @jmsardo, 16 September 2015

 A long walk along a dirt track in quiet cornfield. More & more people heading to #Croatia via #Serbia #refugeecrisis: image via lyse doucet @bbclysedoucet, 16 September 2015

 #Croatia +: "Police capture #refugees crossing the border through cornfields and take them to #Tovarnik" @VKranic: image via José Miguel Sardo @jmsardo, 16 September 2015

 A steady stream of people making trek though cornfields NW #Serbia towards #Croatia #refugeecrisis #migantcrisis: image via lyse doucet @bbclysedoucet, 16 September 2015

 

 First migrants enter Croatia after Hungary seals border: image via Agence France-Presse @AFP, 16 September 2015

 First refugees head for #Croatia #SyrianRefugees: image via Cold War 2.0 @coldwar20_en, 16 September 2015

 

Migrants queue to board buses bound for Vienna from Hegyshalom holding centre on the Austrian border after Hungarian authorities closed the open railway track crossing on Tuesday: photo by Jeff J Mitchell via FT Photo Diary, 24 September 2015

 

As darkness falls, people still keep arriving.  #Serbia #Croatia border: image via lyse doucet @bbclysedoucet, 16 September 2015