MESUT SENOL

MESUT ŞENOL

TWO WHITE SNOW WOMEN

They came from above

From inside out

From far away

From our past

They never ceased to exist

They became the landmarks

Of the meaning of a cherishing adventure

They were quick to produce smiles

Making fellows enjoy their deeds

Full of energy

With a courage to fight enmities

They came to life

To surpass all the barriers

To be more passionate

Under white snow’s dreamland

Their two fine heads

Compassion in their hearts

Free at last in their age

To make fun of themselves

And to give joy to the world

In fact you must follow their steps

In appreciating what astonishes us

It is all about nothing but a thrilling love…

PEACE AND LOVE

For Eirini

I

Hand in hand as now as it has been

Centuries past by witnessing deeds

Be them heroic or mundane ones

Many fallen in the abysses of time

Legends still talk about the Demon

Chivalry acts were not forgotten

So were not the epochs of peace

Love survived catastrophes

Eirinis do not live in vain

II

Sorceress of the holly temple

Dictating the rules for a long gone sect

Loyalty to a king of arrogance was terrific

What mattered was not that

Delinquency of the mature folks

Heavenly steps reached out

Down below flew manly halos

Embrace was the call of the night

Eirini divided her inner kindness

Thresholds were set to be crossed

Like hiking on fantasy tops

You and I were all in sweat

III

It was all about a locked door

Its key thrown away into a dark lake

Miracles were expected in one corner

Who would have been the savior

For the many centuries old stalemate

Nobody from the land came to dare…

 

A MIRAGE OF MUNDANE REALITY

The bushes rose to the air to catch the dust of daily chores of the game

A tribe of love and destitute struggles to survive

the harshest realities of life

The wise and old were given a special honor to revive what was long gone

The more flame of passion is driven deeply by beastly desires and ominous acts

The more calamities happen to strike

the most innocent folks of the nice deeds

Once a witch had told the tribesmen that a man of honor would be nothing

If a true character of a love affair would not be proven through a trying testing

Ancestors and souls of fire, wind, stones and water

could come alive in an instant

Where the beliefs and legends meld in the wildest jungle of no man’s land

Challengers are face to face to survive in the hottest sun of that grisly desert

Dragons and other otherworldly creatures come to life to reign a new era

Lovers might catch a glimpse of what would be their future in a drama

Unfolding episodes of epochs cease to design their faith panorama

When a mirage of mundane reality finds its path to appear

in a mystic scene

My love to my beloved proved to be an infinitely re-enactment of a dune

Yes, here we have you and me, in the depthless of a bottomless desert

It is not a children’s play that you can shape

some dough on your counter

It is fair to say, your amusement with the past cannot come back for good

No one desert had made your life miserable in old days of encounter

Wouldn’t you be nice to have all those horrific memories left behind?

And to start a new one…

Mesut Şenol

MESUT ŞENOL:  A poet of Turkey. Graduated from the Political Science Faculty of the Ankara University. Earned his Master’s Degree in Public Administration and Public Relations. Served as District Governor, Vice-Governor and Mayor in various regions of Turkey. Worked as an editor at the Directorate General for Press and Information, and produced and presented programs for TRT and some private TV channels. Served as Prime Ministry’s PR Division Head and Prime Ministry Advisor responsible for international Institutions and Organizations. He was on the Steering Committee to represent the Turkish Government in organizing the 9th World Productivity Congress held in Istanbul at the Çırağan Palace. Provided PR and advertisement services to many prominent organizations and institutions in Istanbul in his capacity as a PR and Communications Company (ADV Incorporated) General Manager. His five poetry collections were published, and many of his poetry and literary translations appeared in many national and foreign literary publications and anthologies. A freelance translator and instructor on public relations, communications, public speaking and voluntarism. Attended in a number of national and international poetry and literary festivals in the country and abroad, and acting as an organizer for some of them. An Honour Prize laureate of Naji Naaman’s Literary Prizes 2011. Mr. Senol is a member of the Turkish PEN Center, Union for Translators, Turkey’s Writers Syndicate, FILM-SAN, Turkish Journalists Association, Union of Authors of Scientific and Literary Works, and FIJET (World Federation of Travel Journalists and Writers. In May 2016, he was elected to sit on the Executive Board of the Three Seas (Baltic Sea, Black Sea and the Mediterranean Sea) Writers and Translators Council headquartered in Rhodes to serve for three years. He is the Culture Delegate of Spain based literary organization Liceo Poetico De Benidorm and a member of Movimiento Poetas del Mundo. He was awarded with the First Prize at the International Galeteo Literature Prize Contest in Italy in September 2017.