overwhelmed by
that unbearable
lightness of being
not trying to
rip off kundera
but he said it so
amazingly well
but the concept
oh yes, the concept
so very real
these days
probably real
all the days
of mankind
buoyed and
anchored
simultaneously
by the precious
pursuit of, you know,
trying to fathom
life and love and
death and disease
kindness and inhumanity
none of which
ever
go
away
none of which
will we
ever
understand
april 14, 2026
speechless
empty
gut punched
broken heart
crushed spirit
a village rubbled
a father digging
weeping and digging
in his ruined home
for his children
he already knows
are dead
april 9, 2026
i
in love with the idea
of loving you
adoring the notion
of adoring you
yearning just to
yearn for you
even dreamt about
dreaming about you
while missing the longing
of missing you
ii
thinking these thoughts
while conjuring and
scratching out these lines
from afar
from afar
some distant corner
of my fallow mind
from afar
but rooted in some
genetically coded
sameness
from afar
probably
too far
Israel Passes Law to Hang Palestinians Convicted of Deadly Attacks
Experts
say the law was written in such a way as to ensure that it was
unlikely
to ever apply to Jewish extremists who commit similar crimes.
~ New York Times, March 30, 2026
the powerless
have the power
the subjugated
now subjugating
the once pacific
armed to the teeth
those disenfranchised
now disenfranchising
once viewed as vile
less than human
viewing others
just as vile and heathen
casting them as animals
those that were gassed
about to hang 'em high
a village for a tooth
cities for an eye
a hospital for a house
the powerless
with the power
have become
what they
hated
finding my voice
using it well to mine
a wave of poems
loded in the bedrock
below the basement
of my soul
the voice
getting hoarse
i feel it waning
the vein is baning out
the well, just sludge
the river, wadifying
the metaphors
coming up lame
bereft and wandering
in a world gone mad
lonely in a loving fold
joy coming only
from the stars
in the desert
night sky of
my mind's eye
one two three, four five
expressing, something
curcina, for you
meg yergu yer-ek çors
the way my, heart works
oddly beats, when you
just enter, a room
dum tek tek, dum tek
bir iki, üç dört
wanting to, jump up
and surç bar, with you
wanting to, watch your
naz nousing, sweet dance
hoppa pa, hopa
march 17, 2026
for this one, you might need
hagop martayan dilâçer's alphabet
kaleidoscopic
continuous blossoming
fold upon fold
upon unfoldings
cacophonous harmonies
of a mobius rainbow
understandably
just out of reach
head bobbing from
gyumri to our souls
