Bad Memory
Poem Fatih Guvenen Poem Fatih Guvenen

Bad Memory

I have a bad memory, you said
Many years ago when we met
And I said, believe me baby
Forgetting is bliss
Remembering is agony

A long time has passed since
We had nothing but a single kiss
And when you left, without a farewell
All I was left where your memories
Which still drag me through hell
After so many months and years..

Your taste lingers on my lips
Your breath fills the air I smell
Like a warm summer breeze
Your hair still caresses my face
In my endless, maddening dreams

But I see it in those blue eyes
You have long forgotten these
So, do you believe me now darling
When I say
Your bad memory is such a blessing

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Stillborn Baby
Poems Fatih Guvenen Poems Fatih Guvenen

Stillborn Baby

I’ve long moved on
And I am truly happy
We both knew
It wasn’t meant to be

So, yes I’ve forgotten her
She is ancient history
And there wasn’t much to remember
Our love was a stillborn baby

You see, I’d never kissed her lips
Never played with her curly hair
Or felt the warmth of her cheeks
Laying against my bare skin
On a lazy Sunday morning

So, really, what is there to forget—
I tell myself every day
And I know, one day soon
when the beating stops in my chest
Her love will have faded away

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You Ruined
Short poems Fatih Guvenen Short poems Fatih Guvenen

You Ruined

You ruined every woman for me
From now till eternity
Every touch, kiss, and smell 
Now reminds me of you
Since that day when I fell 
Under your magic spell

I hope you are happy. 

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Short poems Fatih Guvenen Short poems Fatih Guvenen

Cherry Tree

I will make love to you as we dance
You are a cherry tree, I am a vine
As I embrace you with a thousand hands,
You will drink the sweetest wine

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Kış Güneşi
Short poems Fatih Guvenen Short poems Fatih Guvenen

Kış Güneşi

Kış güneşi
Isıtsa da içimi
Bir türlü getirmedi neşemi
Bakışlarım soluk
Kalbimde bir boşluk
Gözlerim hep arıyor seni
Ve sessizce ağlıyor içimdeki
Mercan gözlü küçük çocuk

En sonunda anladım ki
Sensiz, California bile
Avutamazmış beni nafile

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Ballad of Online Dating: A Duet with my Wingman
Long poems Fatih Guvenen Long poems Fatih Guvenen

Ballad of Online Dating: A Duet with my Wingman

The app says: —I know it’s awkward to write a profile

And to tell the world how wonderful you are

So, let’s play a game of pretend,

and write as if describes you a friend

I puzzle:  —Which friends does it have in mind? 

The ones who long ago bid adieu

Because they had little to say kind? 

Or the ones whose friendship continue

Because, to my faults, they are generously blind?

A wise woman pinched me: —Are you out of your mind?

By friend, they really mean your wingman.

So, let him draw you… full of charm and flair…

an intellectual, a great dad, and a lover extraordinaire

—Yes, my wingman is great

But, how to say this, he tends to… exaggerate

The wingman said:

~~Stop it! You are not the boogeyman,

and I am not a snake oil salesman. ­

And I have heard some good things about you

from Ann, Suzanne, and Marianne.

Feeling the love in the air

and the summer breeze in my hair

(or whatever is left of it anyway),

I said, —OK then my friend, take it away.

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