Personal Cosmology
I was there
brother
when the rocks melted
and sand was not yet sand
I wanted to take another flow of lava
in my palms
and dream of Pompeii
on the ides of a forgotten month
I was there
sister
when hydrogen
discovered oxygen
and chose a white wedding
While helium dreamt of
floating free
as in
bloated balloons
It was when I noticed
a tiny worshipping trilobite
staring at me
with the awe of future generations of sentience
acc
July 13, 2021
autology
does not mean
my rational car
or even an irrational one
of the sort I usually drive
mostly owned
many times rented
it just means me
the one that I know
that I may even own
(although wife and kids may not agree)
like or dislike notwithstanding
long due a change for a newer model
rather difficult to consider
new technology out of reach.
Will I be able to get one
with a sunroof
and fog lights?
Ahmet
Joly 1, 2921
A Day of Love
(for Eser's Birthday on July 2)
one of many such
each year anew
each day special
a cruise
on calm waters
boats with containers
of thoughts as emotions
and thoughts as wishes
and the wish always the thought
and both so special
again
this day
Ahmet
June 24
Daughters and Dads on Fathers Day
appear different
somehow
to viewing eyes
which find reasons for the blurring
seeing the aspirations
and the hopes
and the fleets of fancy
sailing in the blues and greens
of their soul gates
movements of shoulders and arms
tossed hair
tossed cares
shrugged worries
packaged and packed
in boxes and cases
in the whirlycues of gray
be they the clouds in the sky
or matter enclosed
in overflowing personal storage
which will be the only burden
to be carried away
and carried far
and carried beyond
to join millenia
in a picture of dads
running
and stumbling
and creeping
knowingly nodding
marching
to the unknown
Ahmet Celebiler
July 23, 2021
ME THINK
Why do People Think.
That
Some think to puzzle
others to dazzle
and even a few to embezzle.
But those I know, think to unravel
moods
attitudes
behavior
and movement of money and others
hoping that a time will come
when fish do not grow on trees
or when the left and right sides
become brain brothers
to emotionally load
and unload
garbage
and verbiage
rationally better left alone
but magically and mystically
serve you in the socialization of parts and limbs
and tensions
fitness
and relaxations
in harmony with some
even if a few
more so than many
lovingly gathered and nurtured
living in and around you
seen and unseen
and felt by known and unknown senses
to become a model abode
brick by brick,
breath by breath
ahmet
June 22, 1921
(A very new first draft)
Kediler
Fare yerine kurbağa
ve kertenkele
ve yarasa
avlayıp böbürlenen
kedilerle
ister istemez dost olunur
onlar isterse
kuyruklarını dikip göz kırparlar
ve esnerler suratına
sevgi ile
12 Haziranö 2921
FROM THE DESERT OF TIME
I once met an Afghani prince
no relative of the Hungarian Prince Kemal of my teens
the Afghani built pyramids far from Egypt
structures of envy and greed
without mummies or artifacts
the Hungarian prince rebuilt dreams
and visions of feminine beauty
Greek actress Aliki and a Brasilian dance group
of different eras
long gone
with the quicksand they paced
Both princes were somehow related to games of rubber bridge
which also disappeared
except for the plastic playing cards
which can still be used
to build towers
to crumble
for others
ahmet
June 11, 2021
