SONNETS ©2001 Çetin Sert [ * means extra info; cannot be found in the verse ]

 

Words of Advice - Prose
 
Sonnet 1 Sonnet 4
My poetry is barren of art and it is right of you
to see it as imperfect or unworthy as you are one
writer who is able to draw sharp, not blurred
images, better yet, benefiting past writers.
 
It may also be possible that you see me writing
in vain as I write with great dreams all turning
out to be some piece of paper but nothing more,
Or that what I write will never immortalize me.
 
(as someone seeing my art as barren) You are
worth much more respect than they now give you.
And as they refuse to see your art, you should
reach for the posterity and not let the time stop
your writing.
 
Leave not just your image behind but create
either writings or paintings and adorn naked
minds with your art.
It was a tale and you are free in regarding it as
true or as false. No matter how you see it as, it
is of great importance for anyone who sees through
reading as in Shakespeare's famous line (... learn
to read what silent love hath writ ... ). You have a
task and this tale tells of it to you.
 
You have a kindred soul to that of the writer's as
you are able to write powerful lines in your poetry
like "sea: wherein glistening stars swam" and as
you are one of the handful people who is into art
in your city. And among them you are the luckiest
for you have your poetry and painting to eternalize
yourself with. In short, you are as a great writer as
the writer who could create a diverse collection of
colours(emotions a reader feels while reading)
using something colourless(ink) for the first time.
 
Unaware of what you are worth, you are claiming
time to be an obstacle and going further, say that
publishing what you write would be disrespect to
the professional writers, which is totally unright.
No one else but you prevent yourself from writing,
and this means more difficulty for those who think
they can find their right paths in life only through
reading or dealing with other forms of art. You are,
in a sense, not letting people find themselves in
your writings. That's just what the time wishes as
your egoist foe.
 
As someone who reads a lot, you shall see that every
single word you read is challenging you to write
again and strengthen the roots of your mind and
thoughts. Or they may all collapse leaving you in
endless questionings. (* You build your house upon
questions, using your answers to those questions as
your material and if your building ever collapses,
then you again face with the questions you once
thought you had found the right answers to.)
 
Sonnet 2 Sonnet 5
Please be quiet and listen to me. I will tell you
the verdict of a court from ages ago and it tells
something to every thinking writer or artist.
 
In the beginning there was one writer and he
never wrote about the society he belonged to,
which really needed being praised once. Instead,
he wrote after his lover and only she cried when
he died, and wanted his soul to be "raised" from
death.
 
A Necromancer heard her crying and held a
summit in the middle of their town and it was
indeed a court consisting of wise, fair men and
some with fear. (* we are talking about raising
from death here, you too would probably fear)
At the end of that court they had come to a final
decision;
 
They would raise him from death only if she
accepts to let the writer write about them not
about herself. They thought; "otherwise we will
not ever be praised and this would mean unequal
status for us."
Time knows everything about this universe better
than we can ever do and it plays with you as easily
as it would play with every other thing. Despite the
fact that it's the oldest, it acts like a youngster and
neither with a glass, nor with my barren verse can
one ever show you its power (youth).
 
It's fed on skill as it not only kills a human but also
kills that human's skill, art, power, everything.
Using all the endless treasure it has, it never gets
old. Besides, for more matter, it rides someone from
one emotional state to another to make him/her be
indifferent to everything. It does it with such speed
that nothing can ever notice it or show the current
state on anything. (like a map(* think of an enemy
that you cannot locate on any map ! What could you
do to defend yourself then ?))
 
It can play the carrier of new life, or a mother to
feed this new growing grow further. Yet it can also
play the snow blowing fright into the souls of fresh
leaves (which he himself once carried to fertile
grounds) or a coldness to freeze every single wrong-
doing on this earth. What it will be depends on him
but it somewhat depends on you too. Thus;
 
You should either be a friend with this most power-
ful force of nature or let him prison you in this
earth and have control over you. It's your choice.

 
Sonnet 3 Sonnet 6
She thought much about their decision, that
she would see him but not be seen(written of)
by him. Finally, she decided his raise from
death to be a gain no matter what the case and
shouted back at them "I will forget about him
 
I will give him as much pain as I can to make
him forget about me too. I will make what he
uses to write (ink) be black and slow him down
in loving me gradually which will by time end
his love towards me and he will begin hating me
then. (Only then can he write about you)
 
What he will write about you will be all about
you or your (society's) different parts. I will not
let him write during day time and for this one
reason he will use his words like swords to swing
over me. (but he as you wished will write about
you, will praise you. I will bear all this pain but
he will write about you !)
 
From the wounds he will have given me, I will be
cured by his face (it won't matter how much pain I
will give him to make him write about you, not
about me). Yet as you are this hungry for being
praised, as to make two lovers be two foes whetting
blades behind each other, I curse you; he will write
black (the colour of night when everything is
blurry) and this will make his art worthless and
worse than it used to be."
You are meant to create as someone gifted with
such talent, therefore you should create many
things using this talent(art). Draw pictures for
examples (steal momements from time). I have
known people who died before writing or drawing
as much as wanted to. But this shall not be the
case with you, as you are one person who can bear
both the business of your life and dealing with art.
 
Or if it won't be drawing what you will do, then you
can also try writing every single thing your heart
grows. And when you look at something written,
especially if it is black, never forget you are meant
to create, to make difference and SEE. And never
think you will be deceiving yourself with writing
or that the black ink will make you lack the life's
colours.
 
And as final words, as Words of Advice I say, "You
may think but your thoughts deserve to be given
care and they (thy fair matters) can be given best
care by just moving your pen on a paper. Or if one's
thoughts are one's protection, and one's self would
make a delicious food for the ever-hungry (time),
you should always carry your thoughts with you or
time will pare them off your self and your self will
be defenseless, in other words; a "please eat me !"
message for the time.
I do want you to always be there, not be eaten away
by Time. I do want this as someone who has been
severely injured by Time, as someone having a
self begging mend from me. (* a self that has twice
lost against the time.)
 
Nomad Soul
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