Ali Emiri was born in Diyarbakir. He lived in politically most difficult time of the Ottoman, and in the early years of the newly formed Republic of Turkey. His curiosity to read books brought him to Istanbul. He had played a key role in introducing of the Diwanu Lugati't-Turk to the science world. He has witnessed the physical transformation along with the mental transformation in the Ottoman society. Ali Emiri has attracted attention as a poets as well as a publisher. He published his opinions about various issues in Osmanlı Tarih ve Edebiyati Mecmuasi (the Ottoman History and Literature Magazine), Tarih ve Edebiyati Mecmuasi (the History and Literature Magazine), and Amid-i Sewda (1909) which is published with six issues. Ali Emiri's poems which have been published in the Amid-i Sewda newspaper are examined in terms of the theme in this paper. To do this, Amid-i Sewda newspaper numbered Millet Library A.E. Gzt. 570 was obtained. The poems of this newspaper were carefully examined in terms of theme (main idea). In total, fifty-three independent poetries have been detected in this newspaper. Apart from these poems, nearly 150 verses large and small poetic texts have been detected in this newspaper. Some part of all these poetic texts are belong to Ali Emiri, and some of them belongs to the different poets. Ali Emiri is a poet who has love of the homeland and nation in his heart. This love has been also reflected in his poetry. Also, he has a deep love to the Ottoman Sultan. Some poems belongs to other poets in the newspaper have also examined this theme. Also, many poems were written as a nazira. Ali Emiri published some poems which were selected from a poem magazine in the first issue of the newspaper. In these poems some themes like love, affection, separation, affection of the Sultan, homeland love were examined. These themes also were examined in the next issues of the newspaper consciously. The name of Amid-i Sewda includes the love of Diyarbakir city. Also the poets from Amid were frequently mentioned in the newspaper. All these show Ali Emiri's special love of Diyarbakir. The themes which were examined poems, were closely related to the bad conditions of the Ottoman State.