In oral cultures, music has a very important function in learning literary (poetry) content, conveying the intended message to crowds of people, and making it permanent and effective on the audience. For many centuries, arts of music and poetry have been of vital importance in narrating, conveying and disseminating beliefs, culture, world view, history, lifestyle and conditions of societies. Minstrels played a significant role in this process. While communicating with society through art, the message intended to be given through poetry and music is conveyed to the target audience more easily, quickly and permanently. This study aims to discuss the message that Âşık Nesimi Çimen's folk poems [deyiş] both inherited from his masters and produced by himself intend to convey in the context of artistic communication and their reflections on society. As to the methodology of this study, a literature review was conducted for the conceptual framework, then available archive was scanned to identify sample folk poets with religious and political content to be examined, and finally its findings were presented in a descriptive way. Nesimi sang poems about both divine and corporeal love and within the scope of this study his works whose contents consist of beliefs and political/world views are taken into consideration. As a result, people have enabled their religious and cultural values to survive and spread throughout the ages, by processing and developing them through art and transferring them through repetitive teachings. Nesimi Çimen, as a follower of tradition and with his stance as a minstrel, has always been in communication with the target audience by producing works shaped around both religious-cultural values and political worldview. In this regard, Nesimi has continued to say folk poems with religious contents in order to keep alive, transfer and ensure the continuity of religious values he shares. On the one hand, Nesimi Çimen expressed the flaws in political understanding and his view of humanity particularly in his folk poets in light of his perspective and perception; on the other hand, as a mistrel he created work of arts and put messages enshrining peace, life, freedom, prosperity and tranquility against war, death, hunger and exploitation at their center. The impact of Nesimi Çimen's artistic communication with people through his messages in his folk poems clearly contributed to the process of learning, maintaining and transmitting of religious values as a community and with a strong sense of identity. Also political contents in his folk poems provided social awareness and a profound knowledge to his audience.

Keywords: Âşık [Minstrel] Nesimi Çimen, Artistic Communication, Deyiş [Folk Poem].