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At the top of the page sits the poem of the day, chosen by our editors from the poems the community has shared; the previous day's selection stays beside it, so you can easily return to a poem you missed. A selected poem carries a selection-of-the-day badge on its own page.

The Latest Poems from Members section lists the community's newest poems with one poem per poet, so new voices are as visible as established ones. To see every new poem in date order and search by poem, line or poet, use the latest poems page.

The poems on Edebiyatla gather around themes such as love, parting, longing, friendship, mothers, homeland, nature, death and hope. From melancholy poems to short, meaningful ones, from verses written for special days to philosophical poems, you can find the feeling you are looking for through these themes and through the poets' profile pages.

In the illustrated and video poems section you discover poems paired with an image or a scene, and some poems can be listened to as audio poems read in the poet's own voice.

Turkish poetry draws on three main traditions of metre and form: folk poetry written in syllabic metre (koşma, mâni, türkü, destan), Divan poetry built on the aruz metre (gazel, kaside, mesnevi, rubai) and free verse, which the Garip and İkinci Yeni movements opened up in the twentieth century. You find examples of all three on Edebiyatla; most members write free verse, yet traditional forms built on syllable count, rhyme and redif live on.

By subject and voice, poetry divides into lyric poetry that foregrounds feeling, epic poetry that tells of heroism, didactic poetry that sets out to teach, pastoral poetry about nature and rural life, satirical poetry that criticises and dramatic poetry written for the stage. You can meet the masters of these forms in author biographies and place them in literary history with the today in literature calendar.

To write poetry, a free membership is all you need. Once your account is verified and your membership approved, open the write a poem page, add a title, the poem text and a short description, and publish. You can also add a cover image, a supported video link or a reading in your own voice, and schedule publication for a later date.

You can edit a published poem from the studio and, if needed, unpublish it and publish it again later. Readers can like and save your poem and follow you to see your new poems in their own feeds; all of your poems are gathered in one list on your profile page.

Edebiyatla is not only a poetry archive but a literary community that brings readers and poets together. Save the poems you love into folders, follow poets, select a single line and comment directly on it, and join discussions about poetry in the forum.

Alongside poetry, short stories and essays, literary word games that test your vocabulary, and the selection of the day at the top of the page bring you a new read every day.