The only way to achieve the impossible is to start doing it. You may not achieve it that way, but there is no other way to achieve it.
Category: Poetry
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Arrow Slits
Arrow slits have to be narrow to protect the defenders of the castle.
Any wider and they will be exposed to dangers from outside.
Being narrow is what they are for.
I am a person who…
I see the world through the arrow slit of my self-definition.
Relevant images and metaphors draw my eye.
A living wood turns into Golgotha
with dead trees supporting crucifixions.
The fewer the parameters – the more important they become.
If all I know about myself is that I am a Christian,
I would be willing to die for it.
Or kill for it.
After all,
arrow slits are
for shooting out of. -
The Rise and Fall of the Ottoman Empire
As imarets
transform to minarets,
and rigid ideologies prevail –
states fail. -
Seville Cathedral
Seville Cathedral used to house Christian and Muslim worshippers side-by-side.
After the inquisition took power, the Muslim part was appropriated and built over with Christian symbology.
You can still see the interface. It is cracking. -
Entitlement
The sense of entitlement is a trap:
as you are entitled – you do nothing;
as you do nothing – you achieve nothing;
as you achieve nothing – you feel deprived of what you are entitled to. -
Cordoba
A mass of yellow stone
floating in the blue
of the clear, brilliant sky above
and the turbulent Guadalquivir below –
its enormous bulk
made weightless by the context.
Ottoman Cordoba was a univer-city,
a unverse with a small “u”.
A mess of cultures,
sweaty cross-fertilization –
exciting,
faintly indecent,
infinitly productive.
Not the golden mean of Aristotle,
not the measured path of restraint –
contorted co-mingling,
intertwined but not melded.
The way of Socrates –
clear contradiction that is growth
made stone. -
Andalusia
Andalusia is defined sharply
by the semi-abstract shapes of its endless orchards.The land is crocheted in a clearly textured pattern:
cotton – for olives,
chenille – for applesThe valleys are fluffy with blooming trees –
I want to stretch out my hand and pet them.The overwhelmingly-vivid green of the fields
screams for attention.Occasional ruins, softly mouldering,
become more picturesque by the century,
structure the landscape
and give the eye a rest.
