LIMITS OF LIMITED RESOURCES

 

LIMITLESS UNIVERSE WITH LIMITED RESOURCES

wealth in terms of money and goods 

as love and compassion

as shoes 

with shoes without holes

empathy or antipatathy 

in antiquity

and this day

imaginary wars

of children and adults

overflowing into reality

in realms military

and trade 

and ideas

and beliefs 

not exemplary

scattered 

as desert sand

about oases 

philososophically

the one 

and the other

the real

and the unreal

in times

and epochs

of all measurements

and dimensions

only available 

for some

some days and ways

not always subject to any senses

and thoughts senseless

limited

and raveneque

nevertheless

ahmet cafer celebiler

August 24, 2026

NON RUPICOLINE TROGLODYTES

 

UNDERSTANDING ROCKS

INHABITING CREVICES

not visiting

or hiking

or climbing 

up and down

ravines

nor spelunking

but living in 

and between

rocks

ancient

unsculpted

available

physically

and

emotionally

common but dear

unfurnished for most

without holds for thresh

that becomes whirlygigs 

in currents of thought

or

feeling

ahmet cafer celebiler

August 6, 2026

GIVE AND TAKE

 

GIVE AND/OR     GIVE OR TAKE

eser and i

we deal cards and such

also

give cards and much

to deserving and  to unknown

a fluffy bunny to a four year old

in a village

on a treed roadside

to clutch 

with

joy to behold

team logo balls

and puzzles

to  siblings 3 and 7

whose mother walking

asked for some better things

at a gas station 

on  a desert

not unlike Bagdad Cafe

sets of hand tools

measuring tapes

nails and screws

to 

design 

and build 

or just repair dreams

to six or seven boys of 8 to eleven

who weighed us

in their glances

and almost feared to ask

for a few more sets

for family and friends

in their minds 

who had not made it to the rain water ditch

on the roadside with no shade for fathoms

all of them our friends and memories

ahmet cafer celebiler

August 1, 2026

SEARCH FOR PROCOPIUS

 

SEARCH FOR ANOTHER PROCOPIUS

was it justinian or theodora 

was it the media

or the propaganda

or clandestine organizations of the time

that produced procopius

in the center of a world

ruled by 

power

and greed

and arts

and wars

infamy 

unspeakable

but writable

like or unlike today

recorded as they occurred

forgotten

or banned by decree

never to be texted for common schools 

and philosophers

who never knew 

unrelatable

narratives 

of knights of arabia

just phalanxes

or chariots

and camels and elephants

all falling

at mercy 

of historical and modern barbarians

ahmet cafer celebiler 

July 21, 2026

THE UNDERSTANDING OF NOT BEING SOMETHING

 

SOMETHINGS ARE JUST THAT

no need to name 

or specify

or categorize

just list them

as us and them

friends and foes

fears and joys

tasted and forgotten

painted all white

and all the hues of white

to take 

in

to 

ahmet cafer celebiler

July 12, 2026

A PRIORI IS SELF EVIDENT

 

A POSTERIORI IS TO BE CONTESTED

all hold

some declarations to be self evident

except for others who have no appendages dangling

or buckets

with or without handles

minds of eld

with grey matter

filled with zeal

and

self assurance

not scientific

or

methodic

followers

of Stanislavski

using the world 

as a Konstant stage 

subject to small tremors

of insignificance

ahmet cafer celebiler

July 7. 2026

APPLIES TO OTHER COUNTRIES IN THEIR OWN PERCEPTIONS ALSO

 

INTERNATIONAL MISDIRECTIONAL PERSPECTIVE

US leaders are just the window dressing. They are products of the American way of life.

We do not know who controls the American way of life, values and visions but we know that it is not a president, governor or supreme court justice. A gestalt, perhaps?

Views of US and its effect on life in America and elsewhere, change in time according to opinion makers, public relations and propaganda, some misleading some erroneous, some ignorant and some very very intentonal. Aliens?, Residents of the netherworld? Time travelers?

We are meant to sit tight and just watch and guess.

ahmet cafer celebiler

june 24, 2026