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Mesut Şenol: Two poems


FLYING ON THE WINGS OF A DESERT BREEZE

Tonight I feel different, so much so I am alien to my essence

Here and there I imagine seeing us walking with the desert’s breeze

So gentle, it is a melody to our ears and a nice touch of caress

From the deep down of our soul, we anticipate the right words

It is the surrounding of a magical starry night above us

Twilight fairies must be trailing the steps we are about to take

Imagining the things so extraordinary to happen in an instance

A suspense is so sweet and strange to experience being speechless

I am dazzled inside my thinking and feeling mechanisms

Making me a flying creature on the wing of a desert breeze

So surreal, but surprisingly it feels like a totally an earthly adventure

I may find my essence as I let everything be circling around a kiss


GOING DOWN THE HILL OF THE DREAMS

the color design of the dusty horizon

being reflected

from the yellow shield of the sunflowers

its satin dull gray edges are broken

the ears are prepared in the showy prairie

screams are not caged

while being dragged down barefooted

thoughts are in a close embrace with feelings

passengers being full without taking

the lunch boxes presented by time

the desperate who find out

their thirst by seeing the horse flushes

faraway places seem near, though the station

of mirages is vacant

while going down the hill, the indicators

get loose out of the heat of the dreams…

yet myself who functions in the straight mode

strange to say, I am put to it!



*Mesut Şenol graduated from the Political Science Faculty of Ankara University. Earned his Master’s Degree in Public Administration and Public Relations. He served as a mayor, district governor and Public Relations Department Head of the Prime Ministry. His nine poetry collections were published, and many of his poetry and literary translations appeared in many national and foreign literary publications and anthologies. Attended a number of national and international poetry and literary festivals in the country and abroad, and acting as an organizer for some of them. Received numerous literary awards in the country and abroad. A member of many literary organizations. He is currently sitting on the Executive Board of the Three Seas Writers and Translators Council. He is the Turkey Culture Delegate of the Liceo Poetico De Benidorm. He teaches at the Translation and Interpreting Studies Department of Yeditepe University, and Communications at the Communications Department of Bahçeşehir University.




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