AN ALIEN SPACE OPERA

 

POSSIBLY OF ANDROMEDAN ORIGIN

maybe 

found in  a bottle

washing up

or down

space lanes

riding a meteor

a cosmic cloud

a hallucination

of an impossible 

formless life form

a dream

neither good

nor bad

telling a juvenile adventure

of reaching a treasury of sands

and connectable dots and other things

all

based on a far away philosophy

It tells of childish hands

wishes

and thoughts 

reaching the treasury

digging in

shaping the sands and dots and whatnot

to build

constructs of dreams

their own dreams 

shaped in rock and stone and marble

for their own make believe

in playgrounds

seeded and unseeded grounds

all of which

becoming melancholic

as sentience grows in and around

saddened

regretting

the children go back

to forget

leaving aimless

meaningless

rubble

and 

creatures

petty

aimless

ignorant

but with instincts

that rule life and death

and joy and misery

in

merciless hands and thoughts and desires

of  mortals

who refuse to understand

mortality, mystery, and 

planets, suns and galaxies 

which tick endlessly

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January 17, 2025

MARAUDERS IN A TABULA RASA

    LOOTING

the decision was personal

and rather immaterial 

the instruments 

were singular

there was envy

there was hope 

purposeless intention

and aspiration

much of each

it involved 

walking

and

simultaneous digging

and damage invisible

the threads qualified 

though

apprehensive

unstrung and high-strung

yet willing

and capable 

of carrying out 

the search

and 

the venture

and the scavenging

the tabula

originally rasa

became a store

an assemblage

possibly even a compendium

for those

who 

ordained themselves 

as sayers and givers

doling out wisdom

and justice

and mana

all from the tabula rasa

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January 17, 2025

YAKINDAN UZAK GÖRÜŞ

 

İÇSEL BAKIŞIN DIŞA VURULMASI

SÜREÇSELDİR

ne miyopluk dur

ne de hipermetropluk

bakıp görmemek

görüp görmemek

o delikten görülen

renkli

ve sonra

silikleşen hisleri 

donuklaşan yüzü

başka bir mahale taşımak

zamanlarda eritmek

geleceğin mekanından

azletmek 

yaşlanmak budur

oyuncaklar saklanır

oyunlar sürdürülmez

kazanmak alkışlanmaz

mutluluk uykudur

uykusuz mutlulukları algılamak da

yeni

yeniyi yeni keşfeden

yeni olmayanı yana iten

azgınlıklara gülümseten

birileri var olsa da 

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7 Ocak, 2025

ABSCISSION

 

AGES OF TRUNCATION

education

for all ages

is syncopating

as much as

loading

and

overloading

young

and also

senescent loves

spruce up

through 

joy

and beauty

and

idyllic walks

in hills

and

in life

preparing

for pruning

later

trimmed 

thoughts and abilities

tread a

path

with

nascent signs

of  sanguine peace

amidst anncestral traits

of calamity

resisting

psyche

rest

and 

indulgence

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January 7, 2025

MÜBECCEL

 MÜBECCEL

güzelse kadındır

manzara

aş

iş

değil

müşahhasdır

taş toprak gibi

din inanç değil

göz 

gönüldür

vahadır

mücerret olmadan

senin değil

benimdir

uyanık düşlerimde

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Ocak 4,  2025

PERAMBULATION

 

    Perambulation

boundaries

and 

borders

abound

between

bodies 

political

and matrimonial

bilateral

and vertical

of steps

ladders

and slopes

hills

and

dells

streets

and

skin

a detriment

for bonding

of webs 

and binds

not ever bouncing 

back to a new beginning

through

points of no return

HABERDASHERY

 

Dangerous Gender Slurs

gentlemen's clothing 

on display

sometimes

with knick knacks

but not 

knickerbockers

any more

though

milliners

survive

even 

in a Japanese animation

without

shoguns 

and samurais

but wizards

and witches

all

watching wars

with

good 

and evil spirits

all waiting for the 

winners

and losers 

to emerge from the gates

not mistaking

the swirling dust and smoke

for a targeted meadow

although still in a paddock

not a shop for men and women

but 

still frequented by

wizards and witches

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January 1, 2025