Metaphysical Nature
(from Spectrum, literary magazine of Robert College students, p.22, 1963)
trying to overpower
an urge inside
gnawing at the brain
and ear
and holes in my shoes
Numbness increasing
small worlds
white ones
falling on the shoulders
then disappearing
in wetness
melting me
to my foundations
of nothingness
Maybe a ghost
of the past
or the future
conceiving
infinity
Ahmet Celebiler,
December, 1963
Another View of the Last Eartquake
Human aggravation
that leads to panic
may be cause of civil attacks
of disobedience
no surcease
in augmentation by belief
intensification
by lack of action
after a collapse too many
heart and body and abode
a tent or hut
on tremolous tremblous
but
molecularly solid
sinew and vengeance
calling out the dust
of space
and
locus
in human archeology
yet not anthropology
due for a new epic
a paean centuries long
millenia short
sensing sense
and maybe also nonsense.
ahmet c. celebiler
feb, 9, 2023
