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
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
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
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/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 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
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 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
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
DISTANCE NOT ALWAYS MEASURED IN A STRAIGHT LINE
sometimes
in time
somewheres
in cards
or morality
or sexuality
with no value attached
or detached
win or lose
can both be obtuse
when the distance
between past and present
shortens
shortens
leaving no space
or time
for a prospect
even in retrospect
ahmet cafer celebiler
June 22, 2026
SINGULARITY OF CYBER IMMORTALITY
systemic behavior changes
have no gender
race
or
creed
occurring in time
occasionally in space
frequently in dreams
always unpredictable
solidly in stone
phlegmatically in a spouse
incalculable
in their assymetry
yet
pining for immortality
ahmet cafer celebiler
June 16, 2026
SHANGHAI CIRCUS REVISITED
ADDING A DALANG TO A BUNRAKU
riding a dragon somedays
one remembers the child
on a beach
in the pacific
with adventure in the blood
diving down waves
to the emerald kingdom
to find a princess playmate
a whole day of royal fun and games
then asking the dragon
to fly back home
to the beach
but not finding one
with same dunes and paths
and shoreline
an old man asks the child why he was crying
because everything is different
he says
the paths the shores the sand and the trees.
ah
says the man
a day in the emerald kingdom is same as years here and now
but I did not know
and playing
with
and without time
i did not know
yes you did not know
said the old man
slowly moving
towards another place.
ahmet cafer celebiler
June 5, 2026
SPEAKING FOR SOMEONE ELSE
people you may want to speak for get fewer as you age
it does not matter if your wishes are fallen or upright
on a pedestal or a page
socially correct or full of rage
no matter how polite
offload
bespoke
on or off a cloud
with a dagger but no cloak
a few flakes
or a drizzle
to be ignored
when heard
or unheard
ahmet cafer celebiler
June 1, 2026
A few aforementioneds:
PROGNOSES FOR PROCRASTINATORS
"procrastinating economists prognose dead swans"
"procrastinating MDs diagnose after the fact"
"procrastinating students become multiple drop-outs"
"procrastinating couples may only hope for lees"
"procrastinating politicians cannot win an election"
'Beware the Ides of March' was a procrastinator's prognosis
ahmet cafer celebiler
27 May, 2026
PYRAMIDS AND CORTISOL
suffering built
edifices
nations
and rulers
without character
but
high levels of cortisol
ahmet cafer celebiler
May 27. 2026
IT HAPPENS
finding
a word
catching
a train or bus
grabbing
a thought
thought of a pet
not sought
feeling
a peace undone
not rare
enjoying
a moment
not reserved
appreciating
art
or result
of a cosmic parody
made public
on display
reliving
a sleep of innocence
survival
again
to be repeated again
ahmet cafer celebiler
HOW MANY WORDS DOES ONE USE
in science IT and engineering
education
and employment
In medicine
also in teaching related subjects
professors
students
career holders
have no age limits
for using words such as
now
like
so
etcetera
in English as a second languages
in Turkish as a first language
in congress
with spouses
and with law makers
and
law appliers
on television
news and talk shows
in text books
on the internet
in politics
in courts
where logic does not prevail
the lack of words
where
words lose meaning
not to be recovered
crooked letters
crooked allusions
from
proclaimed
temporary authority
wishing for and even
succeeding to achieve
permanence
absurd
ahmet cafer celebiler
May 11, 2026
TRESPASSES AND OFFENSES
he went to the city when young
in body
and in mind
the city of fables and mysteries
histories and labels
to face
himself and others
in streets narrow
and wide
and in eyes
sunken
and deep
uncaring
even like sheep.
wooled over
world apart
he saw brunets and blonds
who could speak to him
who should speak to him
and
was speechless
lest
they did not see
did not appraise
did not
he saw houses
with no owners visible
shops with nothing available
stone edifices
stone faces
fuming things
and fumbling people
and learned loneliness
for himself
and others
he came back
himself
and
as another
to the same
to do the same
to think
some more
to search some more
to plan to visit some more
with and without intentions galore
ahmet cafer celebiler
April 18, 2026 (rewritten)
CAUSE AND EFFECT ARE NOT ALGEBRAIC
AND SELDOM GEOMETRIC
x and y
singly
or in multiples
positively and negatively
are not as taught
whether they represent unknowns
or
known axes
when they appear as words
written
and spoken
or
looks and glances
to delight
or humiliate
through multiplication
and division
cut
long and short
carrying messages
to and from
other regions
stroking
and measuring
beliefs
and disbeliefs
in axis of virtues
and transgressions
in realms illogical
ahmet cafer celebiler
March 29, 2026
