Thursday, June 24, 2021

A DAY OF LOVE

 


A Day of Love

(for Eser's Birthday on July 2)


one of many such

each year anew

each day special





a cruise

on calm waters  

boats with containers

of thoughts as emotions

and thoughts as wishes

and the wish always the thought

and both so special 

again

this day


Ahmet 

June 24






Wednesday, June 23, 2021

DAUGHTERS DAY

 

Daughters and Dads on  Fathers Day








appear different

somehow

to viewing eyes

which find reasons for the blurring

seeing the aspirations

and the hopes 

and the fleets of fancy

sailing in the blues and greens

of their soul gates


movements of shoulders and arms

tossed hair

tossed cares

shrugged worries

packaged and packed 

in boxes and cases 

in the whirlycues of gray 

be they the clouds in the sky

or matter enclosed 

in overflowing personal storage

which will be the only burden

to be carried away

and carried far

and carried beyond

to join millenia

in a picture of dads

running

and stumbling

and creeping

knowingly nodding

marching

to the unknown


Ahmet Celebiler

July 23, 2021


Tuesday, June 22, 2021

METHINK

 

ME THINK

Why do People Think.


That

Some think to puzzle

others to dazzle

and even a few to embezzle.


But those I know, think to unravel

moods

attitudes

behavior

and movement of money and others

hoping that a time will come

when fish do not grow on trees

or when the left and right sides

become brain brothers

to emotionally load

and unload 

garbage

and verbiage

rationally better left alone

but magically and mystically

serve you in the socialization of  parts and limbs 

and tensions

fitness

and relaxations 

in harmony with some

even if a few

more so than many

lovingly gathered and nurtured

living in and around you

seen and unseen 

and felt by  known and unknown senses

to become a model abode

brick by brick,

breath by breath


ahmet

June 22, 1921

(A very new first draft)

Saturday, June 12, 2021

İstanbul ve İznik Kedileri

 Kediler


Fare yerine kurbağa

ve kertenkele

ve yarasa 

avlayıp böbürlenen 

kedilerle 

ister istemez dost olunur

onlar isterse

kuyruklarını dikip göz kırparlar

ve esnerler suratına

sevgi ile


12 Haziranö 2921



Thursday, June 10, 2021

MEMORIES TO REMEMBER

FROM THE DESERT OF TIME


I once met an Afghani prince

no relative of the Hungarian Prince Kemal of my teens

the Afghani built pyramids far from Egypt

structures of envy and greed

without mummies or artifacts


the Hungarian prince rebuilt dreams 

and visions of feminine beauty

Greek actress Aliki and a Brasilian dance group

of different eras

long gone

with the quicksand they paced


Both princes were somehow related to games of rubber bridge

which also disappeared

except for the plastic playing cards

which can still be used

to build towers 

to crumble

for others


ahmet

June 11, 2021

Tuesday, June 8, 2021

AGES OF MYSTERY

 


Ages Of Mystery


The child seeks mysteries 

and surprises 

behind doors

and whispers

in paraphernalia

and in boxes

or drawers

or a mother's hug 

and even in an ant and its friend the bug


The old seeks protection

and certainty

stead of adventure

or inventory

of things in cupboards of memory 

in parlors dusty


no longer puzzled

preferred to be let alone

and not to discover

that which has stayed hidden

 behind broken shutters

even when the smell of wild fig

drifts by.


.ACC

June 9. 2021



Life is for the living

If You Wake UP


Consider  the number of times

and the occasions

when joy of life

brought you back 

for a whiff

of the perfume of pineapple and cloves

to finally leave 

in a final sigh.

Then

hide under the cypresses

marble cold to the eye

breezy cold to the ear

and in search of another whiff

of a slightly warm

tender

caress

and its bouquet


ACC June 9, 2021

Thursday, June 3, 2021

Oh, the Brain!

Diagnosis of Almost geriatric Hydrocephalus


the brain is a depository

a section of lost and found

another one of left luggage.

with size limitations 

and content restrictions

although small size dirty underwear is welcome

as well as upturned stones 

with some of those uncovered

eroded by time.

each section originally with a key.

the edifice placed close to slow flowing  liquids

at risk against rust, flood and clotting.

and clogging

But the owner will leave the structure and contents

before they can be reinstituted and sold as ideas 

or memorabilia

even at another universe.


CTScan of June 2, 2021