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şiirler, düz ve eğri yazılar, ingilizce-türkçe ukalalıklar, seyahat algılamaları karmaşası.
a messy mixture of memorabilia: poetry, poetic prose, fiction, fictionesque travel notes, and such.Otherchelebihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14565972422599011986noreply@blogger.comBlogger218125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4872482370200671326.post-60619743143029048132024-01-12T01:39:00.000-08:002024-01-12T08:01:07.032-08:00THE END OF THE STORY II<p> </p><p>THE END OF MY STORY II</p><p><br /></p><p>This has been my story </p><p>most of the chapters</p><p>remembered</p><p>and </p><p>pages</p><p>imagined</p><p><br /></p><p>I wish i could have sung it</p><p>through my life</p><p>and to you</p><p><br /></p><p>But I could never sing</p><p>except for a discordant lullaby</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Ahmet Cafer Celebiler</p><p>January 12, 2024</p><p><br /></p>Otherchelebihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14565972422599011986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4872482370200671326.post-31594048139947291732024-01-12T01:19:00.000-08:002024-01-12T01:19:41.504-08:00GETTING THERE<p> </p><div class="article-header" style="background-color: white; 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outline: none; padding: 0px;">Can i dare to place a limit</p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Is it an age?</p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">or a state of mind?</p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Mine or just that of others?</p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Who decides, enough is enough?</p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">spouse, children?</p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">when intellect becomes insult</p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">when perception is a nightmare</p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">climate becomes only temperature</p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">of feelings</p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">and attitude</p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">using heat and cold</p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">mockery and demands</p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">life remains short</p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">nay, shorter</p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">than a few days to visit a Spring house and </p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">cats and flowers </p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">and grass </p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">that smell like me after rain and mowing</p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">but for so little</p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">so memorable</p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">a fortune </p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">to hope </p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">found too much for this age</p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: initial;">that only real family deserves</span></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: initial;">and the age may not hope or enjoy</span></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: initial;">with so much joy in its past</span></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: initial;">none of which carry forward </span></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: initial;">below the TOTAL line</span></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: initial;">which has only numbers</span></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: initial;">undecipherable</span></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">even if its ink </p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">and meaning </p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">have not disappered</p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Ahmet C.Celebiler </p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">May 16, 2023</p></div>Otherchelebihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14565972422599011986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4872482370200671326.post-2929618640294943712024-01-12T00:47:00.000-08:002024-01-12T00:47:59.324-08:00TALES OF CHICAGO<p> </p><p>CHICAGO OF YOUNGER DAUGHTER </p><p>AND MY PREHISTORIC LIVES</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><blockquote style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" type="cite"><div> </div><div dir="ltr">Something I wrote and posted in2017<div> </div><div> This time around, I will first post some of the photos before I get to the drivel, just for increased confusion.<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="margin-bottom: 0.5em; 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display: inline-block; height: auto; margin: 10px auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 8px;" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td style="font-size: 11.2px; margin: 0px;">Graduation Location in Millennium Park</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 4px; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRV-_6O3KHzhI-tHvlMcmrMvnWKY_Zbec7XWQMALLh33auwgA8MiDhGy5eeew_3seQc6qu1NwWwmV9emUFNjgtOtgS3ffPsbkl1RzpmtfGW6xqpoZIZYU2GdE7PFusxaxjjWHoqVnCklw/s1600/IMG_1631.jpg&source=gmail&ust=1705134850211000&usg=AOvVaw1Nh9vya4MP-VfQsyjSfTYv" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRV-_6O3KHzhI-tHvlMcmrMvnWKY_Zbec7XWQMALLh33auwgA8MiDhGy5eeew_3seQc6qu1NwWwmV9emUFNjgtOtgS3ffPsbkl1RzpmtfGW6xqpoZIZYU2GdE7PFusxaxjjWHoqVnCklw/s1600/IMG_1631.jpg" style="color: #009eb8; 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border-top-style: dotted; border-width: 1px 0px 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 20px 0px 0px;"><div style="border: 0px; clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div style="border: 0px; clear: both; font-family: Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.4em; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px 0px 10px; width: 510px; zoom: 1;">I have been frequently visiting Chicago since 2001, not considering one visit in the depths of history, possibly in 1970 and another old one in 1986.<br /><br />Many of those trips were before I earned my "Other"ness, but I have not let that prefix get to my head and can actually be quite truthful in reminiscing.<br /><br />The first was because a friend was driving this way from Denver and I tagged along to experience his new Mazda with the rotary engine. However, he would not let me drive and also was adamantly against my eating anything in his new car. So I remember only the negative feelings of that trip and nothing of Chicago.<br /><br />The second trip was as a friend and advisor to the GM of the national reinsurance company of Turkey, to help in negotiations with a liability reinsurance broker which had suffered and caused Milli Re to suffer due to the asbestosis catastrophe. We flew in, rented car, dove to the Drake to check in, climbed up Sears to see Chicago clouds and then drove to Evanston next day for our successful meeting to get out of the reinsurance treaty with an acceptable loss. I had a chance to show off my ability to sense places and directions by not once getting lost or missing our target even in Evanston in those pre-GPS ages.<br /><br />The trip back could have been more pleasant if I had not taught a version of two handed bridge to my friend who proceeded to win $17.45 during the short flight to our stopover in London.<br /><br />What does all this say about Chicago?<br /><br />How do these two trips relate to the future ones?<br /><br />Was that broker in Evanston acquired by a company I partnered with to open an office in Turkey, or was it acquired by another one which resulted in the forced sale of my shares in that company?<br /><br />What caused me to find School of the Art Institute of Chicago as a possible university for my second daughter.<br /><br />Come along, to discover Chicago, its people, architecture, life, food and universities from an alien perspective.</div></div></div></div><div id="m_4400884567409680925gmail-comments" style="border: 0px; 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font-family: Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.4em; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px 0px 10px; width: 510px; zoom: 1;">The fact that Chicago is one of the American cities with good architecture had nothing to do with my shortlisting SAIC as one of the schools DD2 would apply.<br />3 schools of art and one good standard university with a well known architecture school was my solution to her desire to study in an artistic environment.<br /><br />We managed to visit SAIC and Baltimore School and MICA (Maryland Institute College of Arts) in her senior year on a three day weekend with one of her like minded classmate in tow. Savannah School of Design we had seen the previous year when we were visiting DD1 at Virginia Tech and an old friend at Atlanta.<br /><br />She was offered small scholarships from all three art schools and an acceptance from Syracuse. DD2 was adamant to spend her four years in a large city and Baltimore was definitely out of the question after I managed to lose my way the evening of our arrival, finding ourselves in the Baltimore zoo reading instructions for Penguin gate or orders to not feed the animals. I think a sign which said something about lions scared us enough to exit the zoo and find ourselves on Johns Hopkins University campus.<br /><br />My excuse is that I could not follow my well studied plan to drive to a Hilton Garden Inn in a park just outside Baltimore because of road works which led us to a number of diversions which would have fooled a foreign army. The hotel restaurant was closed, there was very little nearby and our visit to a MacD was a disaster when the two girls were introduced to loud applause by some of the other female customers who cheered them for some reason.<br /><br />The two uninterested Turkish students we were introduced added to DD's negative feelings which the great offer of the school in giving her six credits to start, couple of K per semester grant and the chance to force any class she wished could not alleviate despite the great crabs of different local species.<br /><br />We also had to have time to visit <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www1.bloomingdales.com/&source=gmail&ust=1705134850211000&usg=AOvVaw2CnFOCMBgsnzjRy9grlhMv" href="http://www1.bloomingdales.com/" rel="noopener" style="border: 0px; color: #34689a; display: inline; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Bloomingdales</a> to pick graduation ball gowns for both girls in Chicago. They found their dresses and I found out that shopping with two females compounded the difficulty of shopping with one.<br /><br />Come August of 2003 we were at Hotel Burnham (currently The Alise) and the two girls at dorms on State Street just a block over.<br /><br />This was a great place because of the park in front which had a great weekly market, the monumental and mystifying department store Carson Pirie Scott which was the last large commercial building designed by Louis Sullivan, a Marshall fields and a Sears.<br /><br />Today, Sears is <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://walgreens.com/&source=gmail&ust=1705134850211000&usg=AOvVaw03mHrJo0g6TWteb5PRuHiC" href="http://walgreens.com/" rel="noopener" style="border: 0px; color: #34689a; display: inline; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Walgreens</a>, Marshall fields is Macy's and Carson Pirie Scott is who knows what. The old ones did not grow or mature like DD but disappeared like people who have had their days. Rather sad but possibly with a moral that I cannot quite understand.<br /><br />The excitement of the girls was contagious enough that we had no river cruise, On-Off bus tour or long walks to places like the Navy Pier or even Millennium park. Neither were the Blues and Jazz scene in our agenda. It was a time of rushing to a Southern <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://target.com/&source=gmail&ust=1705134850211000&usg=AOvVaw1Yzd7poN_llZTUld5i5q9z" href="http://target.com/" rel="noopener" style="border: 0px; color: #34689a; display: inline; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Target store</a> and the under construction <span class="il">Ikea</span> and somehow putting together some furniture and things.<br /><br />Eser and I loved the feeling. It was totally different from doing similar things in Blacksburg, Virginia five years before. Chicago seemed warmer and friendlier although the school building where DD would have most of her classes resembled a run down official building of Ashkabad, Turkmenistan. The large imposing building, you see, was the museum of the school and not the school itself.</div><div style="border: 0px; clear: both; font-family: Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.4em; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px 0px 10px; width: 510px; zoom: 1;"> </div><div style="border: 0px; clear: both; font-family: Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.4em; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px 0px 10px; width: 510px; zoom: 1;"> </div><div style="border: 0px; clear: both; font-family: Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.4em; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px 0px 10px; width: 510px; zoom: 1;">Walking between Randolph and Monroe last week to remember the old days,<br />I realised what a great loss was the park on Washington street, where some new high-rise buildings clutter up the already massive concrete and glass structures dwarfing the older and friendlier ones.<br /><br />I do not remember if the farmers market of over ten years ago at that space was as expensive as the Tuesday and Saturday farmers markets I visit these days in front of the Modern Art Museum and the children hospital where DD2 is employed as an assistant project manager and at Division and State just a couple of blocks from our condo.<br /><br />Were we afraid to leave our barely 18 year old in the city of Al Capone and the highest number of deaths by hand guns, interesting Democratic conventions of olden times, notorious mayors, ghost herds of cattle?<br /><br />No! We trusted the self-assurance, practicality and defence mechanisms of our DD2 to withstand the bohemian, mostly older, mostly semi-professional/part-time, different partner preference schoolmates she would meet. We were correct. She was among the 15% of her freshman class who graduated in June of her fourth year and went on for a graduate degree, thereby depleting most of our family nest-egg, but also finding happiness in marrying a young lawyer from Michigan and now giving birth to our grand daughter Arya.<br /><br />Abandoning her dorm in her sophomore year, she moved to a large four bedroom town house in the old town with three classmates. The fame of this party house may have crossed state lines not only because of the girls but also because of the pool table in the basement.<br /><br />We figured that if she could pass all her courses with the minimum B average required for her to keep the small scholarship that year, she could overcome any problems. And apparently it was so, because the next apartment, still in the old town, fully exposed to the EL and burgled twice stayed a favourite of hers, and would have graduated her if we had not flown in after the second burglary and forced both girls (the original two I had brought on the selection trip) to move to an apartment at Chestnut Place with its award winning lobby which fell victim to the greed of new owners last year.<br /><br />Other nice things about chestnut place were, the twenty-four hour open Tempo Cafe and Potash supermarket across, two pizza restaurants, one on each side, cleaners and car rental on premises, reasonably priced parking for visitors, not to mention a sex shop very close but absolutely ignored by all of us. One pizza restaurant and the cleaners are gone now as well as the reasonableness of the parking, but the others are staunchly in place, although the entrance is now on Chestnut rather than State and the lobby looks like any other.<br /><br />DD2 now lives in their own townhouse half a block away, enjoying her big city with all the conveniences of her location.<br /><br />I think we were there for all her moves as a student, but fortunately not the two after her marriage.<br /><br />We suffered Summer heat and Winter glaciers and even renting a U-Haul to move some of her stuff a few days before we drove to Cleveland for my cardio-thoracic surgery. We were gone less than two weeks, flying back on the seventh day after my double by-pass, to spend three weeks recuperating, walking a minimum of two miles a day, before I would fly back to Istanbul.</div></div></div></li></ul></div></div></div></blockquote>Otherchelebihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14565972422599011986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4872482370200671326.post-74409498071169676162023-12-13T10:18:00.000-08:002023-12-14T12:50:38.422-08:00THE END OF THE STORY<p> </p><p>END OF MY STORY</p><p><br /></p><p>This has been my story </p><p>I could not sing it</p><p>I wish i could</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Ahmet Cafer Celebiler</p><p>Otherchelebi</p><p>December 13, 2023</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Otherchelebihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14565972422599011986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4872482370200671326.post-43128683777759756892023-12-11T02:53:00.000-08:002024-01-10T05:15:03.775-08:00IDENTIFICATION<p> IDENTIFICATION</p><p><br /></p><p><span> Parents and police</span><br /></p><p><span>identify children</span></p><p><span>and culprits</span></p><p><span>guilty by location</span></p><p><span>by skin color</span></p><p><span>by ethnic background</span></p><p><span>by religion</span></p><p><span>by age</span></p><p><span>by profession</span></p><p><span>by education</span></p><p><span>and definitely</span></p><p><span>by selfish self</span></p><p><span><br /></span></p><p><span>people identify</span></p><p><span>themselves</span></p><p><span>by birth</span></p><p><span>by wealth</span></p><p><span>by mistakes</span></p><p><span>by ignorance</span></p><p><span>by psychosis</span></p><p><span>by greed</span></p><p><span>by envy</span></p><p><span>by anasognosia</span></p><p><span>and places seen and not seen</span></p><p><span>thoughts thought </span></p><p><span>and ignored</span></p><p><span>feelings felt</span></p><p><span>and dismissed</span></p><p><span><br /></span></p><p><span>And</span></p><p><span>unhappiness</span></p><p><span>and</span></p><p><span>regret</span></p><p><span>and parsimony</span></p><p><span>and</span></p><p><span>desire</span></p><p><span>to be someone else </span></p><p><span>anyone else</span></p><p><span>but not a child</span></p><p><span>or a culprit</span></p><p><span>or</span></p><p><span>a self</span></p><p><span>any self</span></p><p><span><br /></span></p><p><span>Ahmet C. Celebiler</span></p><p><span>11 december, 2023</span></p><p><span><br /></span></p>Otherchelebihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14565972422599011986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4872482370200671326.post-28606596969915441182023-12-04T00:34:00.000-08:002023-12-07T02:53:11.531-08:0033 DEVİR PLAK<p> </p><p>DEVİR</p><p><br /></p><p>Küf devri</p><p>Kokusu depodan çıkan plaklarda</p><p>rutubetli takım elbiselerde</p><p>toplanıp özensizce saklanan</p><p>deniz taşları</p><p>ve kabukları</p><p>ve </p><p>hatıralarında</p><p>mesleklerini hatırlayan </p><p>değişiklik görmeyen</p><p>gören</p><p>değişiklik istemeyen hayatlarda</p><p>bozulmayan</p><p>bozulsa bile dönmeyi sürdüren</p><p>plakların </p><p>dünyayı tanımlamasında</p><p>hep var olan </p><p>buz</p><p>ve mutsuzluk tabakalarını aşan</p><p>güneş ışıkları ile</p><p>fotosentez sürdürebilen</p><p>yosun ve küf</p><p>insanların içlerinde de gelişiyor</p><p><br /></p><p>ahmet cafer çelebiler</p><p>4 aralık, 2023</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Otherchelebihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14565972422599011986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4872482370200671326.post-63791178306680500872023-12-03T10:16:00.000-08:002024-01-19T04:30:50.283-08:00Pleistocene<p> PERSONAL PLEISTOCENE</p><p>Britannica writes: <a data-ved="2ahUKEwiUj771sumDAxWqZ_EDHb5ND5gQFnoECCMQAQ" href="https://www.britannica.com/science/Pleistocene-Epoch/Pleistocene-events-and-environments" jsname="UWckNb" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.britannica.com/science/Pleistocene-Epoch/Pleistocene-events-and-environments&ved=2ahUKEwiUj771sumDAxWqZ_EDHb5ND5gQFnoECCMQAQ" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1); background-color: white; color: #1a0dab; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; outline: 0px;"></a></p><h3 class="LC20lb MBeuO DKV0Md" style="display: inline-block; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.3; margin: 18px 0px 3px; padding: 5px 0px 0px;">"Pleistocene Epoch = Ice Age, Climate Change, Extinctions"</h3><div><br /></div><div>Ice age </div><div>in terms of my feet</div><div>climate change</div><div>for all</div><div>Extinctions for many </div><div>soon to inlude me</div><div><br /></div><div>My last epoch and those before</div><div>were lived fully</div><div>happily and sadly</div><div>never thirsty or hungry</div><div>never in needs perceived</div><div>never in greed </div><div>and</div><div>desire unfulfilled </div><div>and obeisance</div><div>or obedience</div><div><br /></div><div>Did the sabre tooth</div><div>or mammouth</div><div>feel regret </div><div>and belief in life everlasting?</div><div>even in animations </div><div>of drawings </div><div>and even in fulminations </div><div>of their more recent</div><div>reincarnations </div><div>as us</div><div><br /></div><div>So many sinned (with glee) </div><div>and righteousness</div><div> against me and each other</div><div>the concept lost meaning</div><div><br /></div><div>my judgement replaced </div><div>any and all divine judgements</div><div>and their applicability </div><div>to my personal pleistocene.</div><div><br /></div><div>The worlde is not predictable</div><div>pleistocene may be followed</div><div>or not followed</div><div>by any epochs similar to the eld</div><div>or totally new</div><div><br /></div><div>but with no improvement</div><div>to feeling or thought</div><div>or compassion</div><div>or peace </div><div>hate and greed</div><div><br /></div><div>unless a totally new </div><div>and</div><div>so far anforeseeable </div><div>life replaces </div><div>to improve existence </div><div>and imagination</div><div>and arts</div><div>and crafts</div><div>and self </div><div>and selflesness</div><div><br /></div>Otherchelebihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14565972422599011986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4872482370200671326.post-17295707505336521842023-11-30T04:17:00.000-08:002023-11-30T04:17:55.212-08:00SCHMOOZE<p> </p><p>Gossip</p><p><br /></p><p>One of my cats</p><p>loves to schmooze</p><p>silently</p><p>at times</p><p>guttural sounds also</p><p>these activities</p><p>may end</p><p>in throwing up</p><p>showing</p><p>dissatisfaction</p><p>with present company</p><p>or nourishment provided</p><p>edible or emotional</p><p><br /></p><p>My wife also</p><p>loves to schmooze</p><p>and be dissatisfied</p><p>but refrains from</p><p>unlady-like sounds</p><p>and tiny physical</p><p>volcanic eruption</p><p>of differnt types</p><p>and </p><p>it is I</p><p>who slinks by</p><p>guiltily</p><p>hoping for </p><p>recognition</p><p>befitting</p><p>a gallant knight</p><p><br /></p><p>Ahmet Cafer Celebiler</p><p>30 November 2023</p>Otherchelebihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14565972422599011986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4872482370200671326.post-83676790305079437562023-11-29T06:29:00.000-08:002023-11-29T06:29:47.254-08:00SYMBIOSIS<p> </p><p>Plants attract</p><p>humans attract </p><p>others</p><p>of their own</p><p>sometimes of other</p><p>species</p><p><br /></p><p>simbiotes are not always alien</p><p>or parasitic</p><p>or commensalistic</p><p>even mutual</p><p><br /></p><p>yet predation </p><p>of flesh</p><p>and mind</p><p>appear </p><p>in all symbiotic relationships</p><p>nuptial</p><p>and political</p><p>and business</p><p>unawares</p><p>or </p><p>consensual</p><p><br /></p><p>the threat</p><p>or act</p><p>of violence</p><p>disregarded</p><p>evident</p><p>or secret</p><p>but of benefit</p><p>as can be perceived</p><p>by all</p><p>individuals</p><p>and groups</p><p>as they all </p><p>live and die</p><p>with and without pain</p><p><br /></p><p>Ahmet Celebiler</p><p>29 November, 2023</p>Otherchelebihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14565972422599011986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4872482370200671326.post-20208118810541698812023-11-25T07:05:00.000-08:002023-11-25T07:05:23.162-08:00HOUSE OF MIRRORS<p> </p><p>Subterfuge</p><p><br /></p><p>legerdemain is a favorite of children</p><p>simpletons</p><p>lovers</p><p>politicians</p><p>sellers and buyers</p><p>in the marketplace</p><p>of money and beliefs</p><p>and absolutes</p><p>rulers</p><p>and the ruled</p><p>sudden</p><p>and timeless</p><p>told in books</p><p>and narrated</p><p>in songs</p><p>of spiders</p><p>and </p><p>scarabs</p><p>who do not </p><p>resemble </p><p>you or me</p><p><br /></p><p>Ahmet cafer celebiler</p><p>25, November, 2023</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Otherchelebihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14565972422599011986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4872482370200671326.post-1626613592271513962023-11-22T00:56:00.000-08:002023-11-22T00:56:30.296-08:00ZARARSIZ<p> </p><p>ÇİTLENBİK</p><p><br /></p><p>yeni kullanımları </p><p>sabun</p><p>sağlık</p><p>yiyecek</p><p><br /></p><p>ve</p><p>akrabası</p><p>veya</p><p>lakabı</p><p>menengiç</p><p>hatta</p><p>bittim</p><p><br /></p><p>yağsızı ise </p><p>çocukluk hatıralarında kaldı</p><p>düdük</p><p>patlangaç</p><p>zehirsiz</p><p>zararsız nefesli ok</p><p>Amazon yerlisi</p><p>silahı olmadan </p><p>oyuncaksız yılların </p><p>oyma uygunu</p><p>kabukları soyulabilen</p><p>el becerisi </p><p>hocası </p><p>ve keşif</p><p>ve icat </p><p>bilgesi ağaç</p><p>ve</p><p>az ile yetinme</p><p>ve</p><p>tevekkül </p><p>öğrenme</p><p>yaşama</p><p>dünyasına giriş</p><p><br /></p><p>Ahmet cafer Çelebiler</p><p>22 Kasım, 2023</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Otherchelebihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14565972422599011986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4872482370200671326.post-84322914947827986512023-11-20T00:32:00.000-08:002023-11-20T04:02:26.795-08:00GREED<p> </p><p>WHEN SUPPLY FALLS VERY SHORT OF DEMAND</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>ages ago</p><p>while</p><p>the demand for </p><p>fire</p><p>stone</p><p> bronze </p><p>and iron</p><p>vied with that for food</p><p><br /></p><p>quantities of love</p><p>udiscovered</p><p>were not mined</p><p><br /></p><p>hence </p><p>violence and hate</p><p>were the issues </p><p>and topics of cnversation</p><p>offense and defence</p><p>ruled those ages</p><p><br /></p><p>yet people carved</p><p>living stone was evidence</p><p>of appeasement</p><p>love and affection</p><p>unbeknownst</p><p><br /></p><p>fawning and</p><p>flattery </p><p>as art</p><p>with odes </p><p>for urns</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>obeisance</p><p>and servility</p><p>mined </p><p>from never depleted sources</p><p>within easy reach</p><p>inside us and them</p><p>and all</p><p><br /></p><p>One ore</p><p>in use</p><p>greed</p><p>never expired </p><p>or diminished</p><p>though</p><p>used through all ages</p><p>through</p><p>faith</p><p>belief</p><p>teaching</p><p>example</p><p>and thereof</p><p><br /></p><p>lives</p><p>that show and tell</p><p>in fog</p><p>behind curtains</p><p>gestures</p><p>moans</p><p>giggles</p><p>sightless eyes </p><p>and senseless senses</p><p><br /></p><p>Ahmet cafer Celebiler</p><p>20 November, 20123</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Otherchelebihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14565972422599011986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4872482370200671326.post-48415252211945126812023-11-14T05:27:00.000-08:002023-12-12T06:42:40.314-08:00A CHAT WITH HAMDULLAH EFENDI<p> </p><p>Note: A cousin brought to my attention a research paper from Erzurum University on my great grandfather.</p><p><br /></p><p><span> A Vestige of the 19th CENTURY</span><br /></p><p><span><br /></span></p><p>it seemed like only yesterday</p><p>a bearded man </p><p>requirement of his post and status </p><p>sat crosslegged </p><p>on a divan </p><p>armrests carved</p><p>older visible covering frayed</p><p>his life and dreams </p><p>of events and people </p><p>solidly in handwritten books</p><p>printers and paper only of a single dimension</p><p>memories and stories </p><p>beyond time. </p><p>a need to tell</p><p>a desire to share</p><p>beyond a monologue lonely</p><p>or a soliloquy on the stage</p><p>fragments all</p><p>appearing</p><p>and losing their way</p><p>in two and a half </p><p>even three continents</p><p>reaching me</p><p>for my gaze </p><p>and for my thoughts</p><p>silently</p><p>but visibly</p><p>I see and hear him</p><p>wishing that </p><p>that could be</p><p>for him as well.</p><p><br /></p><p>ahmet cafer celebiler</p><p>November 14, 2023</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Otherchelebihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14565972422599011986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4872482370200671326.post-55147881883094128512023-11-13T13:15:00.000-08:002023-11-14T05:28:32.334-08:00CONVERSATIONS<p> </p><p>REMEMBERING ASURBANIPAL</p><p><br /></p><p>Do you think he was a just ruler?</p><p>for his time</p><p>for his empire</p><p>for posterity</p><p>I asked </p><p>as we floated</p><p>on clouds of all shapes</p><p>kingdoms</p><p>and chimeras</p><p>and loved ones</p><p><br /></p><p>As emperors go</p><p><br /></p><p>did he have better advisers</p><p>more books of learning</p><p>and</p><p>methods and means of destruction</p><p>no matter the race,</p><p>or colour</p><p>or creed</p><p><br /></p><p>even when</p><p>he gained nil</p><p>for himself</p><p>and maybe less</p><p>for his progeny</p><p>with no names </p><p>and stations </p><p>but with large numbers</p><p>of concubines</p><p>female or male</p><p>and hunters, </p><p>human and animal</p><p><br /></p><p>Ahmet C. Celebiler</p><p>November 13, 2023</p><p><br /></p>Otherchelebihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14565972422599011986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4872482370200671326.post-56775401782661496942023-10-18T00:48:00.005-07:002023-10-18T07:42:06.343-07:00AB&B for Cats<p> </p><p>Free Room & Board</p><p><br /></p><p>slow rain</p><p>means</p><p>royal reign</p><p><br /></p><p>in the house</p><p>each bed</p><p>and armchair</p><p>and pillow</p><p>a throne becomes</p><p>warm</p><p>also soft</p><p><br /></p><p>proximity</p><p>to food savory and </p><p>caresses delicate</p><p><br /></p><p>fresh linen</p><p>but no tissue </p><p>to wipe running nose</p><p>and tears of joy</p><p><br /></p><p>Ahmet Cafer Celebier</p><p>October 18, 2023</p>Otherchelebihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14565972422599011986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4872482370200671326.post-77241510628157306802023-10-13T00:46:00.006-07:002023-10-13T00:46:37.690-07:00TURNING AN OLD PAGE<p> </p><p>Turning an Old Leaf</p><p><br /></p><p>the new newspaper I receive daily</p><p>these days</p><p>has a ninth and tenth page</p><p>unlike others</p><p>that you wish to separate</p><p>by thumb and nail.</p><p>to discover </p><p>all the hidden news</p><p>and funnies</p><p>and ancient</p><p>and modern</p><p>wisdom</p><p><br /></p><p>but the thick</p><p>thicker than others page</p><p>is just one page</p><p>and has no portal</p><p>or passageway</p><p>to other realms</p><p>so far</p><p><br /></p><p>yet </p><p>i am hopefull</p><p>that one tiresome day</p><p>will be the day</p><p>that reveals a new page</p><p>once secreted away</p><p>and</p><p>i will start reading</p><p>all the stuff</p><p>which were denied </p><p>without commitment</p><p>or sin</p><p>or </p><p>even wonder </p><p>as discoveries may not always bring</p><p><br /></p><p>ahmet c. celebiler </p><p>Oct.13, 2023</p><p><br /></p>Otherchelebihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14565972422599011986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4872482370200671326.post-54614804850086870422023-10-08T07:33:00.010-07:002023-10-08T07:40:41.691-07:00MINGLING OF AURAS<p> </p><p>Came and sprawled</p><p>warm</p><p>next to my beating heart</p><p>for love</p><p>or only for the heat</p><p>of free comfort</p><p>no strings attached</p><p><br /></p><p>checked that it was I</p><p>fingertips drawing shapes </p><p>on my arm</p><p>I muttered</p><p>and then whispered</p><p>but snubbed</p><p><br /></p><p>the twitch of eyes</p><p>and the blinks</p><p>were enough though</p><p>as signs go</p><p><br /></p><p>and i felt </p><p>warmed</p><p>wishing</p><p>it would last </p><p>many days </p><p>and such</p><p><br /></p><p>ahmet c. celebiler</p><p>October 8, 2023</p><p><br /></p>Otherchelebihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14565972422599011986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4872482370200671326.post-60473035366758817882023-10-02T12:34:00.003-07:002023-10-02T12:36:23.206-07:00NOT BEING <p> Not Being Earnest</p><p><br /></p><p>is not unearned rest</p><p>being there</p><p>rather than here</p><p>is not a conundrum</p><p><br /></p><p>birds fly </p><p>directionless</p><p>without greed</p><p>or hate</p><p>or hunger</p><p>thirst has no say in the matter</p><p>nor survival</p><p>it is simple arithmetic</p><p>multiply</p><p>just multiply</p><p>here and now</p><p>also there and then</p><p><br /></p><p>ahmet c. celebiler</p><p><br /></p><p>September 3. 2023</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Otherchelebihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14565972422599011986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4872482370200671326.post-83897356487465750382023-10-02T12:22:00.000-07:002023-10-02T12:22:07.256-07:00GRAVITY IS ADVISED<p> </p><p>All Joking Aside</p><p>when fiends</p><p>of faith</p><p>and piercings of daith</p><p>skewer</p><p>with lances</p><p>or</p><p>ordinances</p><p>omens</p><p>tell</p><p>to look out</p><p>for </p><p>gravitational</p><p>deportment</p><p>or momentous</p><p>significance</p><p>just</p><p>to be </p><p>on the safe side</p><p><br /></p><p>ahmet c. celebiler</p><p>October 2, 2023</p>Otherchelebihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14565972422599011986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4872482370200671326.post-59961856199884547002023-09-07T08:42:00.001-07:002024-02-04T12:49:06.682-08:00HOW IS COSMOLOGY RELATED TO OUR COSMOS<p> WHY YOU SHOULD NOT BELIEVE </p><p><br /></p><p>my parent were fundamental believers</p><p>in the rudiment</p><p>else was extrinsic</p><p>and</p><p>if they were not always happy</p><p>it was not for the eccentricities</p><p>thrust upon them </p><p>by the mighty</p><p>and </p><p>the not so mighty</p><p>Odin and Zeus notwithstanding</p><p><br /></p><p>A nebula or Perseus </p><p>were </p><p>as obvious as sin </p><p>and time</p><p>as dark as lights </p><p>of invisible stars</p><p><br /></p><p>until science </p><p>and telescopes</p><p>mightier than the mighty</p><p>pointed a finger</p><p>or</p><p>a ray</p><p>to disrupt the seen</p><p>and </p><p>the unseen</p><p>confusing chaos</p><p><br /></p><p>It is now</p><p>a time to wonder</p><p>of pyramids everywhere</p><p>and the henges</p><p>and the concentric pillars</p><p>closing your eyes</p><p>and </p><p>feeling</p><p>like fathers and mothers</p><p>who had so much vision</p><p>and </p><p>the ideas of many a cosmos</p><p>real</p><p>and less real</p><p>as reality goes</p><p><br /></p><p>Ahmet cafer Celebiler (Otherchelebi)</p><p>September 7, 2023</p><p>Just two short periods before 79th birthday</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Otherchelebihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14565972422599011986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4872482370200671326.post-80485804070214757942023-09-03T00:31:00.003-07:002023-09-03T00:43:28.014-07:00CULTURES AND ORGANISMS<p> Cultures and Organisms</p><p>Culture : "<span face=""Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #212529; font-size: 19px; font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;">the act or process of cultivating living material (such as bacteria or viruses) in prepared nutrient </span><a class="mw_t_d_link" href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/medium#h1" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0074cc; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">media</a>"</p><p>Organism : "<span class="mw_t_bc" face=""Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: bolder; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span face=""Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #212529; font-size: 19px; font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;">a complex structure of interdependent and subordinate elements whose relations and properties are largely determined by their function in the whole.</span></p><p><span face=""Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #212529; font-size: 19px; font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;"><br /></span></p><p><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #212529;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 19px; font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;">On the whole</span></span></p><p><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #212529;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 19px; font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;">organisms</span></span></p><p><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #212529;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 19px; font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;">belong to a culture</span></span></p><p><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #212529;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 19px; font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;">and</span></span></p><p><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #212529;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 19px; font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;">cultures</span></span></p><p><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #212529;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 19px; font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;">are sampled</span></span></p><p><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #212529;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 19px; font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;">and sifted </span></span></p><p><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #212529;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 19px; font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;">organisms</span></span></p><p><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #212529;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 19px; font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #212529;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 19px; font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;">neither have</span></span></p><p><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #212529;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 19px; font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;">arts and philosophies</span></span></p><p><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #212529;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 19px; font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;">real metamorphoses</span></span></p><p><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #212529;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 19px; font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;">only</span></span></p><p><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #212529;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 19px; font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;">the commonest</span></span></p><p><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #212529;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 19px; font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;">boring</span></span></p><p><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #212529;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 19px; font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;">endlessly repeating</span></span></p><p><span face=""Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #212529; font-size: 19px; font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;">psychological </span></p><p><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #212529;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 19px; font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;">perspectives</span></span></p><p><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #212529;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 19px; font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;">values</span></span></p><p><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #212529;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 19px; font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;">and </span></span></p><p><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #212529;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 19px; font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;">sociological </span></span></p><p><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #212529;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 19px; font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;">behavior</span></span></p><p><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #212529;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 19px; font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;">not even at the level</span></span></p><p><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #212529;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 19px; font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;">of hives </span></span></p><p><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #212529;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 19px; font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;">and even clumps of chives</span></span></p><p><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #212529;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 19px; font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;">which do not </span></span></p><p><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #212529;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 19px; font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;">popularize greed or grief</span></span></p><p><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #212529;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 19px; font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;">in their attempts to survive</span></span></p><p><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #212529;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 19px; font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;">their universe.</span></span></p><p><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #212529;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 19px; font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #212529;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 19px; font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;">ahmet cafer celebiler</span></span></p><p><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #212529;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 19px; font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;">September 3, 2023</span></span></p>Otherchelebihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14565972422599011986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4872482370200671326.post-5399115207400659312023-08-29T05:56:00.006-07:002023-08-29T07:44:26.075-07:00WORMS HAVE REAR VIEW CAMERAS<p> </p><p>Rear Views</p><p><br /></p><p>Humans who</p><p>swear that</p><p>they can see</p><p>have no rear view</p><p><br /></p><p>they cannot change direction</p><p>like a worm in its hole</p><p>cannot lead to</p><p>alternate realities</p><p>alternate futures</p><p>any alternates</p><p><br /></p><p>alternate pasts are more common</p><p>to the blind or blinkered</p><p>piddling imagination</p><p>wishful thinking ancienne</p><p>and memory borrowed</p><p>are required</p><p>but only if moderated</p><p>consulted</p><p>and argued</p><p>through lenses</p><p>for selfy shots</p><p><br /></p><p>ahmet cafer celebiler</p><p>otherchelebi</p><p>August 29, 2023</p>Otherchelebihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14565972422599011986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4872482370200671326.post-33354099797651716712023-08-25T12:58:00.000-07:002023-08-25T12:58:43.794-07:00EXPECTATIONS AND APPEASEMENTS<p> </p><p>Expectations and Appeasements</p><p><br /></p><p>wishes and prayers</p><p>even sacrifices</p><p>go unnoticed</p><p>or get dismissed</p><p>when hunger imminent</p><p>and </p><p>unintended</p><p>seeks </p><p>nay,</p><p>demands </p><p>amends</p><p>and settlement</p><p><br /></p><p> pulse and pressure</p><p>nomore </p><p>a rhythm of </p><p>poise and pleasure</p><p><br /></p><p>ahmet c. celebiler<br />25 August, 2023</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Otherchelebihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14565972422599011986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4872482370200671326.post-61949547345548918032023-08-16T08:06:00.002-07:002023-08-16T08:38:48.292-07:00APPRAISALS<p> </p><p>Appraising Subjective Values</p><p><br /></p><p>I learned</p><p>at a very early age</p><p>to appraise values</p><p>of people</p><p>and things</p><p>even people as things</p><p>or</p><p>things as people</p><p><br /></p><p>by their use</p><p>to me</p><p>obviously</p><p>but</p><p>also to themselves</p><p>and each other</p><p><br /></p><p>although </p><p>things are not aware</p><p>of their values</p><p>to each other</p><p><br /></p><p>and people replace </p><p>their own values</p><p>with recorded</p><p>and booked</p><p>values</p><p>believing </p><p>that books of charts</p><p>to be consulted</p><p>and wise men</p><p>and not so wise men</p><p>tell</p><p>depreciation ratios</p><p>to </p><p>believers</p><p>and even apply them</p><p>to unbelievers</p><p><br /></p><p>It is a time and space game</p><p>of accounts and records curved</p><p>and very gravitational </p><p>radiating particles</p><p>which</p><p>make up few </p><p>or many</p><p>as the case may be</p><p>or</p><p>seems to be</p><p><br /></p><p>Ahmet Cafer Celebiler</p><p>August 16, 2023</p><p> </p><p><br /></p>Otherchelebihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14565972422599011986noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4872482370200671326.post-2782914480239260132023-08-13T14:19:00.001-07:002023-08-13T14:19:12.320-07:00OPENING AND CLOSING DOORS<p> </p><p>DOORS IN MY HOME</p><p><br /></p><p>All the white doors </p><p>must be painted</p><p>matching hues of hopes</p><p>of adventures</p><p>mysteries </p><p>in spaces beyond</p><p>escapes and escapades</p><p>expectations of else</p><p>new and diferent</p><p>than life lived</p><p>in spaces of times lived</p><p>no more white doors</p><p>already one yellow and one blue </p><p>not yet dry</p><p>so far same spaces</p><p>behind </p><p>even for the tired mind </p><p>yet</p><p>when all different coulours are there</p><p>there will be hope of </p><p>special places</p><p>uncharted </p><p>weak-eye awakening</p><p>and</p><p>achy-leg stretching</p><p>for wondering</p><p>all new wonderings</p><p>of all the colours </p><p>and hues</p><p><br /></p><p>Ahme Cafer Celebiler</p><p>August 14, 2023</p>Otherchelebihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14565972422599011986noreply@blogger.com0