Deli Boran
Deli Boran
Information about Deli Boran is extremely limited. Deli Boran was a folk poet who emerged from the Turkmen tribes in the Çukurova and Gaziantep regions in the 19th century. There is no information available about his family, profession, or education. He is originally from Çorum, and it is believed that he later traveled to the southern provinces. Based on the limited information and the available poems, it can be said that he adhered to the tradition of folk poetry, used syllabic meter (hece ölçüsü), and did not adopt the aruz meter.
Among the Turkmen tribes in the southern region, there are other saz poets such as Dadaloğlu, Deli Boran, Gündeşlioğlu, Beyoğlu, who follow the literary tradition of Karacaoğlan." Köprülü states that many folk poets who lived in the 19th century turned to the aruz meter, wrote poems similar to classical style poetry, and deviated from the taste of the people, while the aforementioned folk poets had a natural and sincere style reminiscent of the old Turkish bard.
There are not many poems available by Deli Boran. However, it should be noted that he was influenced by Karacaoğlan (Bayrı 1956: 6). Bayrı includes one of his poems in his work titled "Halk Şiiri." In a manuscript containing 58 poems by 26 poets from Sivas (Kangal-Karanlık village), Deli Boran's name is also mentioned.
His poems were compiled from the Turkmen and Barak tribes in the Akçakoyunlu region. In Vasfi Mahir Kocatürk's anthology of Saz Poetry, there are three songs and two koşma poems attributed to Deli Boran. Here is a translation of one of his poems:
I came from a distant road for my yearning
Where is my father Muharrem, where is he?
I'm a wounded nightingale, why doesn't it sing?
Where is that burning heart of mine, where is Kerem?
Oh, my poor-hearted one, with sorrowful eyes
With a chest stoned by the hands of fate
I'm wounded in the heart, with teary eyes
Where is the ruined house of my heart?
Those who listened to his cries would be fascinated
Within his cries, understanding his pain
Echoing in ruins like birds
The insane Deli Boran, where is he?
I couldn't go to school, this was my grief
It was both my grief and my father's
Both my father and my teacher
Where is the one who taught me, I'm a poor one?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac_cfNuk5vY Neşet Ertaş - Deli Boran important
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