DO NOT LIKE YOURSELF FOR WHO YOU MAY BE

people do not like me much

if at all

some think i think and should not

others that I do not think but I must

it is about how 

and why

they think

that i think

but the toughts flow overhead with the clouds

not mine

nor theirs

ahmet cafer celebiler

September 14, 2026

MANY LEAVES DO NOT A TREE MAKE

 

LISTENING WITH ALL SENSES

what good are eyes that do not discern

or ears language deaf

minds walking without aim

loves without game

theories borrowed 

or just heard and stored

to be stored

taken in

and taken out

when cued

billiard balls on green

or in holes

with no depth 

no logic

yet statistically possible

beings with reasons unknowable

ahmet cafer celebiler

September 14, 2026 

DEALS NOT TO BE MISSED

 

FOOL PROOF

deals are defined

          by management

         at used car lots

         at banks

         at weddings arranged

        

      two or more sides contracted

      though one would suffice

      if delusional

      when wishful

      based on prayer

      or other ceremony

      personal 

      at times plural

      on days  and nights

      magical 

      on a mystery tour

      in life perpendicular

      and horizontal

      alone

      and with illusions

       

      counted with digits

      available

      on hands and feet

      and keys

Ahmet Cafer Celebiler

September 2, 2026 

 

 

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