Best Izmir Poems

In Nineteen ninety-six, our son and wife, Majors
In US Army, moved to Izmir, their new base.
As usual, whatever place they were assigned, 
We flew to visit them as well as dear grandkids.
So off we went to spend two weeks in Turkey, this
Outstanding country we had...

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Outside the ancient city 
where the pomegranates grow,
one walks into another world
on distant shores from long ago;
a grave of stone and marble... 
monuments that stand
to guard the saddened ghosts 
of ancient souls on broken land.

These great artistic wonders, 
seen in scattered disarray,
of columns standing tall,...

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Outside the city where the pomegranates grow,
I walked into a world on shores from long ago.
Some graves and marble pillars still to this day stand 
to guard the ghosts of ancient souls on broken land.

But most lay toppled here where once they proudly stood;
works of...

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A poem is not enough to live, to love,
We must savor many other small pleasures,
A banana split or a pear Belle Hélène,
An appointment with a barber in Izmir,

Poetry doesn’t heal from every misfortune 
Sometimes you have to look at her where she’s not,
Cook a boeuf...

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