…thank you for bearing with me the last two times and for the next two more times…while I only offer you my poems…I hope to return to my usual style of reflections, once my semester ends…just around the corner…As always before, I very much look forward to your next visit. May you have a laughter-filled Sunday and an identical new week.
Photography Credit: Serhat Demiroğlu
still playing
i was to be removed
not for lack of love or means
for fear of that dreadful disease
had since my share of ravened joys macaw-donned ills
sets of chains of shackled years eternalized my fasting
trite servings heaped on my plate with no shame
a honeyed blessing it was that you came
dabbed from my mind any fear of intimacy
flavored each morsel on my tray to utmost ecstasy
kneaded for me passionate love into life’s bleak reality
just when
my lungs closed up to solely heed your affectionate breath
the scarlet chamber learned to refuse a beat without yours…
the moment came that made you leave me
i was to be removed
am now orphaned by a cruel bliss
patiently await the end to grant me its fawning kiss
© hülya n yılmaz – March 26, 2014
From the “letter-poems to the beloved” collection
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