Best Egyptian Poems
Below are the all-time best Egyptian poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of egyptian poems written by PoetrySoup members
Egyptian ThoughtsI sometimes think of traveling to a mysterious distant land
To Cairo and the River Nile and walk on Egyptian sand
The Ismalia Folklore Festival brings together...
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Categories:
egyptian, places, river,
Form:
Couplet
Egyptian PharaohsYour mysticism captivates my world today
Covered in gold and ruins
We try to decode
What you left behind for us so long
Its been five thousand years
And we...
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Categories:
egyptian, adventure, art, childhood, imagination,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Last Breath of SunsetRoyal blue sky scattered sapphire clouds
On horizon embroidered in navy blue attire
Summoned by the onset of marigold sun
Emitting amber gold on tuscan yellow fire
Where...
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Categories:
egyptian, heartbreak, sunset,
Form:
Free verse
Black Cockatoo
"Black Cockatoo"
I was white
as pure snow cotton
thread through the eye of God's needle
Black
he was,
not Egyptian, more ancient
he walked
in the Dreamtime
with...
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Categories:
egyptian, romance, sensual, silence,
Form:
Romanticism
At the Golden Dawn of Understanding PotdIt was late in gorgeous springtime, and I was teaching my class,
A lesson in African history, and the events of time's hourglass.
My fourth graders were...
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Categories:
egyptian, africa, christian, education, history,
Form:
Couplet
I Love Horses: A--ZI Love Horses: A--Z
A is for... Appaloosa. They have
blankets on their rumps.
B is for...Belgian. They work
hard and can pull up stumps.
C...
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Categories:
egyptian,
Form:
Couplet
Awaking From Stupor
When the enchanted
jailors of life,
siezed my soul
and those
sepals unfurling
manipulative
manuscripts
ceased to
script a twinkle
above screams,
I became a
slave to my...
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Categories:
egyptian, angst, dark, deep, emotions,
Form:
Free verse
BlossomsNow dips in peace the bay
And I must go
Beyond the hills, the luscious fields
Of jasmines purple, and down to where
The starlight gleams below,
And today I...
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Categories:
egyptian, beauty, flower,
Form:
Rhyme
In Memorywhere we are born is a coin toss
some are lucky some are not
here we live a sheltered life
ignorant of the injustices in other lands
we take...
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Categories:
egyptian, abuse, corruption, inspirational, political,
Form:
Free verse
sweetly fallen -
to swim the seas Egyptian cotton, deep
we plunge the pillows as our passions creep
...
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Categories:
egyptian, angel, metaphor, passion, sensual,
Form:
Rhyme
Living It Up In the EightiesLearned to drive in 1980; it became a must.
The car I bought soon broke down; “Another One Bites the Dust!”
With two kids by ‘81 -...
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Categories:
egyptian, family, growing up, history,
Form:
Couplet
Felony MoneyTrue definition of a hood love story,
They called him Felony.
Skin was as smooth as a shot of Hennessey.
He made a lot of other men envy.
His...
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Categories:
egyptian, imagination, love, poetry, romance,
Form:
Light Verse
The PsychostasiaThe Psychostasia
(The Egyptian Funerary Rite)
For seventy days I’ve been prepared
With oils and unguents ever so rare
And with linen bandages to and fro
Wound and wrapped from...
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Categories:
egyptian, adventure, death, faith, funeral,
Form:
Couplet
Scorpion
Collaboration: James Swartz, LadyLabyrinth
"Scorpion"
Lack of water leads to lack of life
exposed beneath the Sun like blood
from the tip of a Scorpion’s tail
Corporal attitudes aligned in...
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Categories:
egyptian, desire, imagery, life, lust,
Form:
Free verse
A Lion Looms ListlessA cold lion roams, doctrinaire and sterile,
The expanse of Africa offers him no sanctuary, the Saringehti no salvation,
He can only smell the scent of his...
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Categories:
egyptian, character,
Form:
Epic