Poetry is the language of the soul, the seeds of love and the genuine existence between mythe and reality. It's a form of art where unspoken words meet imagination to express feelings and translate the hidden reality of the inner mind into a new figure of communication with the outside world. 

Cassandra Clare an American author born in Tehran, Iran, has said: "Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry". Since my teenage years, poetry has been feeding my soul with beautiful images, flooding my mind with waves of thoughts, lighting my spirit with colorful dreams and building in me the urge to reach higher levels. 

But It's not till late in my life that I started to explore the hidden world of my inner self. Poetry has helped me position myself in this mysterious world, while understanding all those mystical phenomenas that surround all of us. The stronger the analysis of my state of mind gets, the better I get in structuring and codifying my messages and letting go my imagination to expresse whatever I have to bring to the outside world. 

Although most people are attracted by the phonetic side and the structure of poems, I was more convinced by the codification and the senses embedded in poems. Trying to understand and detect the messages hidden by the poet, and studying the images conveyed by the structure of words is my favorite game. While studying a poem, I do sometimes let my imagination flow to add to the sens of words my own experience in life, projecting myself, sometimes into the past and another time into the present. My thoughts can travel to the near or far future, seeing the possibilities and different outcomes of life. 

This book "Crystal Clear Waters" is about this experience. It's a collection of poems, the result of the fusion of thoughts and feelings, derived from a lived life, rich of experiences and decorated with images. Each poem, reflects a specific situation I feel strongly about. It could be a blurred love, a depression, a separation from someone, or a message sent to a person or to the world, or just an ordinary idea that had hit my mind and which I paint with my own vision of life. Crystal Clear Waters are my thoughts. They are as pure as the way I see them, and as true and as strong as they are in my heart. Every line in each poem is originated from a strong lived feeling and codified in simple words which sometimes rhyme beautifully. But not all of my poems have music in them. I sometimes leave the rhymes to let the reader feel and live the the strong messages conveyed by the words while ignoring all the music and artistic work behind it. Crystal Clear Waters is a new experience as every book out there that has been written with love. I hope that you'll enjoy reading it as well as I loved writing it. I hope it will mark your soul beautifully and will add an accent to your life. 

Ashley Smith, an American author has once said: 
"Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams."

Khalid Belkhalfi 
The Thoughtful Poet 
Marrakesh, August 4th, 2017