MESUT SENOL

MESUT SENOL

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!

Flying On The Wings Of A Desert Breeze

Tonight, I feel different, so much so I am alien to my essence

Here and there I imagine seeing us walking with the desert’s breeze

So gentle, it is a melody to our ears and a nice touch of caress

From the deep down of our soul, we anticipate the right words

It is the surrounding of a magical starry night above us

Twilight fairies must be trailing the steps we are about to take

Imagining the things so extraordinary to happen in an instance

A suspense is so sweet and strange to experience being speechless

I am dazzled inside my thinking and feeling mechanisms

Making me a flying creature on the wing of a desert breeze

So surreal, but surprisingly it feels like a totally an earthly adventure

I may find my essence as I let everything be circling around a kiss

Litte 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

MESUT SENOL

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. His eight 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 Authors’ Association, Turkish Journalists Association, Union of Authors of Scientific and Literary Works, and FIJET (World Federation of Travel Journalists and Writers. He serves on the Executive Board of the Three Seas (Baltic Sea, Black Sea and the Mediterranean Sea) Writers and Translators Council headquartered in Rhodes. 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, and with the TULLIOLA-RENATO FILIPELLI 2019 Prize at the Italian Senate in Rome. Currently he teaches at the Communications Department of Bahçeşehir University and the Department of Translation and Interpreting Studies of Yeditepe University.