Einstein is our eternal master
Who saved physics from disaster
Nothing can move as fast as light
His illumination was even faster
Murat Özer
Falsehood harms, but the truth is there to soothe
Truth is smooth but falsehood is uncouth
The opposite of a great falsehood
Is nothing but a greater truth
Murat Özer
Before you form an opinion on anything
You have to do the required reading
If you don't know the opposing arguments
Only yourself, you will be fooling
Murat Özer
Rejecting the truth and following falsehood
There comes, in the end, the decline of manhood
Illusion then takes over very quickly
And the truth bids farewell for good
Murat Özer
Truth looks like a virgin queen
Hiding from sight, thus rarely seen
Only kings can wish to wed her
Kings with heart and mind so much keen
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What's wrong and what's right
Are darkness and light
Alas, it's not that easy
To make the world all bright
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I stand at the existence's route
Conscious of being who, here I shout
İ think, therefore I am
Because I am able to doubt
Murat Özer
Surfing in spacetime's wrinkled fabric
Tormented by life's one-way traffic
Where will the waves take us tomorrow
In this illusory genuine magic?
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Finding it and being its servant is the goal
Of my life, my universe, as a whole
İ will walk only in the path of the truth
As long as I have this heart and this soul
Murat Özer
Even when captured by a sleuth
Neither the old accept it nor the youth
People dread to face it
The scariest thing is the truth
Murat Özer
Going back in time and committing a crime
Is possible only in a pantomime
That we don't get visitors from the future
Is an argument against travel in time
Murat Özer
Many a poem I wrote in my youth
For lamenting hearts, for hearts with no ruth
Now I write poems for the wise
Who wants to walk in the path of the truth
Murat Özer
It doesn't change from angle to angle
With falsehood at all, it doesn't mingle
Truth is like a strong medicine
It should be given little by little
Murat Özer
To set it free from all tangles
Light must be shed on it with many candles
Truth can be discovered only
By looking at it from all angles
Murat Özer
Mixing science with ideology
Is like mixing it with theology
Such actions are not seldom at all
Due to scientific mythology
Murat Özer
Many a paper that I wrote
Were sure worthy of quote
An editor or a referee
Rejected wrongly and knocked them out
Murat Özer
Who would form a silent alliance
Against the obvious facts of science?
Who would dare to kill the truth
Bowing to falsehood in compliance?
Murat Özer
It is not unprecedented
That scientists falsely defended
A completely wrong theory
It was the truth they offended
Murat Özer
A trait of the utmost gravity
As valuable as verity
Which may be very rare at times
Is scientific integrity
Murat Özer
Supported by much evidence
With Nature they are in resonance
All the true scientific theories are
Like a beauty walking in elegance
Murat Özer
If a science theory is not elegant
Most probably it's irrelevant
This is what we have learnt
From history's unique testament
Murat Özer
The experiment being the jury
Scientists try to answer every query
A single, wrong prediction is enough
To falsify any theory
Murat Özer
Since a new idea may have no outcome
The mainstream stick to the rule of thumb
Very few people dare to take a risk
And "follow the beat of a different drum"
Murat Özer
For a science theory to be viable
It must be truly falsifiable
If it cannot be put to the test
What it is, is not identifiable
Murat Özer
Today is 10/10/2020
One unique day, not plenty
Time will never repeat this day
From now to eternity
Murat Özer
Make a small discovery, life becomes a paradise
Make a big discovery, many problems arise
They think you are crazy, journals reject your papers
Life turns into hell that you cannot recognize
(inspired by Evgeny A. Novikov) Murat Özer
Once guarding the truth was so peremptory
No violation of it was in public memory
Come to your senses, oh you people of wisdom
Since when telling the truth is a treachery?
Murat Özer
It's not at all easy to follow it
Shallow minds don't wish to allow it
Truth is like a bitter medicine
It's very difficult to swallow it
Murat Özer
Because it's scarier than a haunting ghost
They would like it to get lost
Cowards want to veil its bright face
It's the truth people dread most
Murat Özer
A scientist's life cannot be better
If he has a wife and a warm shelter
Some books of science, books of poetry
A loaf of bread and a jug of water
Murat Özer
In a bright night under the stars
Walking side by side with the memoirs
The moonlight is executing its smphony
To soothe my heart's bleeding scars
Murat Özer
How many would fall under music's spell
Who the performer is, could anybody tell?
In an experiment in the Washington subway
The busking violonist was Joshua Bell
Murat Özer
For him life was a great fiesta
Making inventions was his true agenda
He was a time traveler from the future
The genius of all times: Nikola Tesla
Murat Özer
Until it sits in glory in its throne
And rules the Universe by itself, alone
Until falsehood is recognized and abondened
"Truth is less than truth until it is made known"
Murat Özer
If only it were possible to know
"Whether come I and whither I go
Science has no answer to it"
No matter how hard it tries though
Murat Özer
Not a causer of pain, but a reliever
A donor of charity, not a receiver
In our relations with the fellow men
We'd rather be the deceived not the deceiver
Murat Özer
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Our existence is a mystical wonder
Over whıch many of us deeply ponder
Where do we come from and where do we go?
As we surf on the waves as rivers wander
Murat Özer
Doesn't a discovery by an unknown scientist
Deserve to get the due credit?
No matter who the discoverer is
Isn't recognizing one's work a question of merit?
Murat Özer
Hearts encompassing just a bit of love
Have the beauty of a swan and a dove
There exists no trace of darkness in them
They shine more than the stars above
Murat Özer
Oh you people who are wise
Look for falsehood in disguise
Over everything that exists
May truth forever rise
Murat Özer
Poetry and music are like twin sisters
How difficult it is to find separating filters
The essence in us resonates peacefully
In the arms of these endless soul lifters
Murat Özer
You don't have to be smart
To be able to see with your heart
Just a bit of empathy
Is what you need for a start
Murat Özer
Among our relationships with the other
Fiendship definitely is the firstcommer
Is not a single dear old friend
More than a sister or a brother?
Murat Özer
Events suggest that we ought to rethink
That death is not the end of everything
Some believe and some don't that after death
Life continues in a different setting
Murat Özer
Birth and death are the beginning and the end
The sunrise and the sunset that we cannot transcend
Light and darkness are all that we see
Not all the secrets of life can we comprehend
Murat Özer
Shouldn't love be a heart's prime duty
So as to be free from getting sooty?
Love cleanses and softens
And fills its abode with mercy and beauty
Murat Özer
No matter how artfully he can compose
And to the limits of excellence he can come close
All the masterpieces by a man's hand
Do not match the beauty of a single rose
Murat Özer
The coalescence of experience and knowledge
Resulting from mistakes that we acknowledge
Wisdom is what makes a person wise
And is learnt in life's hidden college
Murat Özer
Is happiness just being glad
Not letting the circumstances to make you sad
Not complaining about the troubles of life
And accepting the sufferings you have had?
Murat Özer
In all its dignity since antiquity
Portraying the absolute human creativity
Through its distinct alternative forms
Art is the way of expressing beauty
Murat Özer
It's the subject matter of the arts
Which leaves in life its unique marks
It's so pure and immaculate that
Love resides only in beautiful hearts
Murat Özer
We have conquered the space
But not cared with grace
And failed to make smile
A sullen gloomy face
Murat Özer
A battle to conquer a heart
Cannot be won by being smart
It's easier to steal it
Learning the tricks of the art
Murat Özer
No matter how wise you are and smart
No matter how love tears you apart
No matter how you sing all the songs of love
It's not easy to conquer a heart
Murat Özer
If only I knew how to be a thief
It would make my struggle very much brief
I would steal the heart I couldn't conquer
Pure love being my deriving motif
Murat Özer