Saturday, 24 July 2021

Three Fine Poems by Aysegul Yildirim

 



Time yet to be gained 

 

I

 

we’re in a  river of     dream

                                                  

                  sleep      that

                                              

      that has     falls

                                              

                  become      in

                                               

                  the bed     water

                                               

                  it flows      when it         

                                             

                  over       ceases.

 

in a wave of  colours       white 

                                   

                      that        seeks

 

                      sound       to

 

                      like       wash

 

                      darkness     over

                                                             

                      unfolding      dreams.

 

 

II

 

The morsel of madeleine soaked

in tea. 

As the liquid captures

the elements of flour, crumbles

seconds later.

No more territory to conquer.

Withdraw your soldiers -

                         this is not a war

 

The soldiers, though

they cannot be back.

After all, they're unconscious.

deaf to the sea, at night,

blind as the sand.

But it was as if one of them

one of them gets stuck on the vast shore

in the rocks.

in pain.

he doesn't move.

the dark spot in the madeleine

persists, in pain,

only to advance and be gained

by the sea, blind.

 

 

 III

 

You tell the sea what is

            The biggest nightmare for it

In your chest.

            It’s not the storm

Stuttering the words -

            It’s warfare

Relentless search of words

            As it moves in the sand

Now deeper down

            Beating up the grey soul

If there is not any

            Depth to the enemy

Gem from the past

            conquers the future.

Comes out as

            A layer of sand

Revealing the malady now

            Digs into the wound

In her relentless

            Releasing the blue

You see the darkness

            Blanched into water, now

You see it away

Until the lighthouse

Open your eyes          

            It will not send it back again

For the light has changed.

 



Aysegul Yildirim is a researcher and writer whose poems have appeared in The Maynard, Trouvaille Review and Otoliths. She's been hiding away in the mountains in Wales and loving it.



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