MESUT ŞENOL

MESUT ŞENOL

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!

DÜŞLERİN YOKUŞUNDAN İNERKEN

tozlu ufkun renk deseni gündönerlerin sarı kalkanından yansıyan

saten kurşuni kenarları kırık havalı bir düzlükte kulaklar alesta çığlıklar kafessiz

aşağılara çekilirken yalın ayak düşünceler duygularla sarmaş dolaş

zamanın uzattığı kumanyaları yemeden doyan yolcular susuzluklarını at püskürmelerinden anlayan çaresizler

uzakta gibi yakınlar, yine de serapların durağı boş

aşağı inerken düşlerin hararetinden boşalıyor ibreler…

ama hep düzde çalışan ben zorlanıyorum hayret!

BIRDS OF OBSERVATION

you’re now safe

oh birds, keep flying

you’re followed by breezes

by a ritual marsh in the sky for nothing but a walk

this step makes a sense

shortly after that

you can’t simply see it

for heartless souls can’t recognize birds of observation…

gözlem kuşları

güvendesiniz şimdi uçun kuşlar uçun imbatlar peşinizde

gökteki tören geçişi yürümekten farksız çok anlamlı bir adım

kısa bir süre sonra artık göremezsin

çünkü yüreksiz ruhlar gözlem kuşlarını tanımaz…

LITTLE BIRDS’ PARADISE

Small drops of elixir

taken by the heavenly birds They used to perch over there on a delicate balance

over the wavy but persistent ivies of the noble toiling grape

Flying wings herald good or bad news from the beloved one

who is so far away but ever present here

on the wall to look at it

or to accompany to sip the pleasure of those nostalgic moments

that are already gone but at the same time traceable

in the fine goblets of wine

KÜÇÜK KUŞLARIN CENNETİ

Küçük iksir damlaları kutsal kuşların içtiği

Onlar arada tünemeye alışık hassas bir dengede

soylu bir şekilde uğraş veren

dalgalı dalga ama inatçı sarmaşıklar üstünde

Uçan kanatlar iyi ve kötü haberleri taşır sevgiliden

o çok uzaktadır ama her an varlığı hissedilir duvarda ona bakılır

ya da o nostaljik anların zevkini içmeye eşlik edilir ama bu artık yoktur bu anlar yine de onların

izi bulunabilir

güzel bir şarap kadehinde

 

MESUT ŞENOL

MESUT ŞENOL: 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. He teaches at the Communications Faculty of Bahçeşehir University in Istanbul.