Wednesday, December 31, 2025

INTERPRETING INTERPRETATIONS

 


SEEING SOMETHING ELSE IN SOMETHING


poems are interpeted

also judged 

by any and all

except the illiterate

holy books are judged

and interpreted

by all

including the illiterate


who also 

judge

looks

speech

gestures

mien

attire

earnings


evaluations are short

and long

and mean

and

replace 

the poem


or a holy book

in languages recherche

as litanies

invocations

and

incantations

not so divine


the poem has a short half life

the holy book lives on

for the violence

and revenge

to 

recover 

its losses to the poem

even when the poem is no more


ahmet cafer celebiler

December 31, 2025




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