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Born unto this world



With opaque angelic eyes.



Crystalline soft air, you breathed,



Vibrating with life, as strings on a harp.



And in tinkling laughter and claps of hands,



Like a firefly you lit up the world.



In pure reflective light you shined,



As if a cluster of stars had been placed



Around you, and the world had



Magically conjured, your luminosity.



You were only a little sparrow.



Who was learning how to fly,



With the gentlest spirit and kindest eyes,



But you were all too human, a blazing candle,



Which this bitter, hard rock planet



Crumpled underfoot, and you melted,



Leaving, weeping waterfalls and stone



And the unchanging shadow of your smile.
Carried like a scent on the wind,
she pulls me along quietly,
no point in fighting, I've lost.
Pushing me forward, to a red end,
love is in the air, force is present, ever so sly,
pushing, wind at my sail, don't land, it is of cost.
It doesn't get better.
It morphs, carves and twists bones and flesh, no end,
wailing and flowing from a cave in the twilight coldly,
cutting, killing, crushing, no stopping the bloodlust,
breathing into & for me, a forced life to lend,
never put to self indulgence, never boldly,
waves bleed port & starboard, tranquility's holocaust,
systematic & brutal, my ink ever wetter.
 Apr 2015 Özcan Mermaid
yasmine
tomorrow makes a year that you said you were done with me
but ironically i dreamt of you last night
my head is spinning.
A long shot of the stretch
where waves hug the shore
then freeze as a moment’s sketch
to never roar anymore!

Her footprints on the sandy turf
the winds would blow away
her trace of hunt from sparkly surf
for dead shells on the bay!

In her eyes glows red crab lust
her wings are ached for soar
so long the now not turns to dust
just once must love her more!

Fleeting time leaves one long shot
of cloud and dead trunk beach
carved with dream etched in thought
but never close to reach
!
 Apr 2015 Özcan Mermaid
irinia
In the sea caves
there's a thirst there's a love
there's an ecstasy
all hard like shells
you can hold them in your palm.

In the sea caves
for whole days I gazed into your eyes
and I didn't know you nor did you know me.

*Giorgos Seferis
 Apr 2015 Özcan Mermaid
Carolin
Wrote your name on
the sea shore. Had the
fear that the water might
wash it away during the
day. The shells from the
water gathered themselves
to spell your name out.
Pretty pink clams , seaweed
and shiny rocks as well.
The stars shined down
at night and made your
name shine bright.
Leading lost ships to
shore leading the lost
to home. Leading my
heart to fall in love
with yours* ~
 Apr 2015 Özcan Mermaid
Carolin
Sail with me into the dark.
Leave everything behind.
Go on an adventure with
me. Write words of love
and throw them into the
sea. Write poetry on scraps
of paper and place them
in a bottle. You never know
maybe one day a mermaid
might find them. Or two lovers
by the shore. Now now dear
come on and sail with me
into the dark before the light
of dawn comes along* ~
the sound of
the water
between
the sea
and
the ocean
when water
breaks
at
the shores
what
make the sound of
the water
once more
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