NUMERICAL PROXIMITY
numbers one handles
can be a sign of intelligence
or power
authority
or wisdom
populations national
or
members familial
sometimes
non-denominational
at times sectarian
otherwise
dissident agnostic
to be ignored
to be falsified
to be incarcerated
in harsh reality
or harsher visions
ahmet cafer celebiler
March 29, 2025
THE SICARII VS HASSHASSHIN VS MEDIA TROLLS
belief
and personal philosophy
religion
or
other types
of
discrimination
are not
anarchy
yet
a breeding pasture
like the golden age of assassinations
before
global wars
This era or century
or cosmic period
renewed by
character defamation
an incurable
disease
of slander and libel
replacing
and
fulfilling
the duties
of gossip groups
not meeting
in caffees or homes
not meeting at all
powerful never the less
more powerfull
when faceless
when
playing upon fears
and
despair
hunger
poverty
discrimantion
real and imaginary
replacing
hopes
with
violence
and
pursuits
divorced from happiness
Locusta serves again
not for emperors
but for all
leaders and more
in fields
of politics
and family
and media
and commerce
appearing
out of nether regions
as drooling
untaxed professionals
with pay
ahmet cafer celebiler
March 21, 2025
BOXED LIVES
precious things crave boxes
precious humans
not craving
but
duly fenced
with stakes
and chains
or wire
and
tarps to keep them dry
while their eyes
and noses
and throats
drip
droplets
to smear and rust
all boxes
chains
wire
on dry days
look for a key
or a locksmith
one
imbued with magic
and love
loving care
caring love
until the last stop
la derniere station
where
nobody greets
arrivers
anymore
at lasnaja Pojalva
Ahmet cafer celebiler
March 19, 2025
PRICE OF A BABY
an infant
on display
in minds
and dreams
placed subliminally
purchased
over the counter
or under
comes with no accessories
or parts
needed for proper
care
and functioning
not even a legible manual
with diagrams
names and numbers
and arrows
but two dimensional
and
emotional
instructions
for a
multi-dimentional bundle
and
the art
of maintenance
and upkeep
may not be available
at galleries
or museums
and eroded
or calloused organs
that
could not
read
manuals
or understand recipes
which require
forks to be picked with left hand
and knives
with the right
and
a napkin
placed just so
ahmet cafer celebiler
March 3, 2025
LIFE FOR THE AGED
bless the octogenerian
who has got his own
children may have
grand children may show
spouse may hear
own choices
own views
own visions
of the old
left in a desert
to bide away
time left
sun for the bones
wind for the mind
not a country
or time
for the old
but
timeless
for mankind
dust and sand
the whirling dervishes
visible to the old
faceless
soulless
merciless
telling the value
of the carcas
to the scavengers
related
and
unrelated
bone pickers
to be fed
to escape the sun
and the sand
for a while
till they are ready to
to be picked
for their age
and
utility
and
placed in the desert
with tears
that are swallowed by the sun
but nonetheless
with a place
in the desert
of life
and
of memory
ahmet cafer celebiler
March 3, 2025
REFRESHING THE PUZZLE
puzzles need to be redrawn
and recut
according to
contingencies
enemy deployment
and
the climate
of fantasy
and reality
usually no different
from each other
and the sum total
of clouds of ignorance
and credibility
white and gray
never totally black
depending
on
idea and faith
and sooth
saturation
pronounced
by the media
available for intervention
and purchase
and accommodation
but with
black spots
desiring
seldom reaching
goals
imposed
and disposed
with ease
despite
the thought
and the humility
of the objects
and the subjects
placed
to fit
or misfit
visions of inquisition
of
cloudy minds
and vois la
another
puzzle
with missing pieces
ahmet cafer celebiler
February 25, 2025
NOTE AND REQUEST
This is not a philosophical or literary entry.
You can tell by the use of capital letters.
It is mainly a "Thank you" note
To all the followers and readers of my blogs.
for keeping me young and alert in my eighty first year
of enjoying people, other living and inanimate things
and all experiences
mine and those of others who appear in life and book pages and newspapers and films.
My request is that you write to me if you can and if you wish
at ahmetcelebiler@gmail.com so that I can feel you are as real to me as to yourselves
at fifty or more countries worldwide, some of which I will never be able to visit.
And, if you ever have a chance of making it to istanbul in my remaining years, please call or stop by
so that I get to know you as you have known me.
Ahmet
February 23, 2025
(one day before the critical football derby in snowy Istanbul, in last ditches of denying Global Warming and reminding me of very old memories of other snowy days which closed schools for the fun and excitement of Ahmet the Kid)
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