Mismatched Socks
Poetry & practice
Mismatched Socks is an invitation to inhabit the “liminal spaces” between our old stories and our new beginnings.
Where myth meets the everyday cup
Mismatched Socks is written at the threshold between poem and story. It uses allegory, myth, and everyday observation as parallel vessels for presence—inviting readers not to decode poetry, but to step into it. Rather than privileging abstraction or formal difficulty, the book embraces warmth, narrative clarity, and repetition as a meditative practice. It is designed as a meeting place: for experienced poetry readers and for those encountering poetry as a lived, daily companion for the first time.
The book unfolds in two movements:
Part I — An Allegory of Love
Without Names The Mountain and the Butterfly trace love as presence rather than possession.
Part II — The Practice
Forty daily poems written in Turkish and English side by side, born from a forty-day discipline of morning reflection.
Different vessels.
Same essence.
The Book Explores:
- Cutting the “Invisible Ropes”—identifying and releasing the old narratives and chosen constraints that “cage our kites” and divide our journeys.
- The Duality of Wholeness—embracing the paradox of being both the “steadfast mountain” and the “delicate butterfly,” and finding the courage to accept the formless rhythm beneath all things.
- The Journey over the Destination—shifting the focus from “finding” an answer to the beauty of the “looking,” as illustrated by the man’s dream-quest for the “Yam”.
- Universal Experience—exploring how “unnamed heroes” dissolve into the collective narrative of humanity, where heartache, perseverance, and passion are shared by all.
- The “Everyday Cup”—finding the sacred in half-sipped coffee, the scent of honeysuckle, and the silent spaces between words.
Who This Book Is For
- The Healing and Rebuilding—those navigating the cycles of “heartbreak, healing, and half-sipped coffee” who need a companion for their daily rhythm.
- Seekers of Daily Presence—readers who want to transition from “knowing” to “living” and are ready to engage in the “steady discipline of showing up each day”.
- Souls in between—those who live “on the bridges of existence” and appreciate the beauty of language as a vessel for the soul.
- The “Mountain” Personalities—individuals who feel the heavy labor of being “steadfast” or “majestic” and need permission to “flutter” or even collapse to begin anew.
The echos from the Mountain:
“Maybe it was never meant to end in finding. Maybe it was always about the looking.”
“The Butterfly… did she know she shook the eternal Mountain?”
“Ropes divide our stories; they cage our kites. But what if the ropes were cut?”
“Don’t borrow another person’s map. Build your own. Otherwise—where’s the joy in this game we call life?”
“Different vessels can carry the same essence.”
“The line, invisible, yet still breathing, between the lines.”
“Love stayed—not as memory, but as a presence.”