Best Coptic Poems

A lifetime of waiting, stacks of National
Geographic half as tall as me, piled on
every step. A girl with nothing to do but dream.

The yellow-black jackets buzzed, I flowered
as I turned the pages. The relics of Tutankhamun
fascinated: gold, turquoise, lapis and the slaves
in mud-brick houses they...

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Above racism, nepotism, communism, sexism,
ambition, pollution, domination, seclusion,
God reigns!

Way above segregation, self-promotion, 
physical illumination, elevation,
apartheid, genocide,  cyanide, religious pride
God abides!

Floating above Coptic, Catholic  politics,
toxic doctrine,  elitist foolishness, 
putrid imaginings,
God in His Omnipotent Majesty reigns!...

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January

Journey into the New Year named after Janus,
the god of beginnings and transitions. 
Another year of New Year’s 
celebration and resolutions 
of new beginnings, 
putting the past behind us, 
and going forward into the future. 
Under the  Wolf Moon, 
also known as the Cold,...

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lunatic tile underneath a formica god.

he cracks at the edges.

synthetic delirium..

coptic nerve....


 in his head plastic can be holy
.in his head 
he bends but never breaks...

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Each day, a red sun arises from the emerald river, 
In the acrobatic leap in the dark with watermelon smell.
In the evening, the pale moon it is dressed up in silver  
By a dervish who changes it in a dome where he`ll dwell,
As prisoner...

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Each day, a red sun arises from the emerald river, 
In the acrobatic leap in the dark with watermelon smell.
In the evening, the pale moon it is dressed up in silver
 
By a dervish who changes it in a dome where he`ll dwell,
As prisoner of...

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Some say that God’s kingdom is in the sky, or in the sea
The birds would reach the sky before you, the small fish would have found it
The kingdom is in us and outside us, we’re children of its king 


A poem based on a translation...

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The Holy Bible is an ancient collection
Of 66 books comprised
Thirty-nine books mainly in Hebrew
The OT, by the Jewish people still prized.
The NT books were letters
Written in the Greek language.
The first five books were written by Moses,
Who out of Egypt conducted Israel’s passage.

Around 450 BC, the...

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The Hate Machine

The tail of a bird the bone of a man;
Warm red Blood upon the sand.
A hooded figure, a Nazi Cross.
Was there ever a man who could count the cost.
Of the Hate Machine.

A starving refugee, a child in pain.
A soldier dead in the driving...

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Luke’s Purpose
Luke 1:1-4

Luke: “Many people have applied themselves,
to the task of compiling an account of the events,
that have been fulfilled among us [the shelves].
They used what the original eyewitnesses [gents] -

And servants of the word handed down to us.
3 Now, after having investigated everything,
carefully from...

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In humor hides wisdom
In sadness hides Coptic truth

Empathy can hold all of the world’s treasures
Compassion the vessel of which to drink it plenty

Righteousness is not being right
Olive branches know this plight

A man without a smile
Is a desert without a mirage

Walk along the road of the...

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The Cross
It six o`clock Sunday early evening she is in
the church that looks Coptic, the sun lit up
the cross on the top and the roof looks rosé. 
 A Morocco radio station plays Arabic music 
this is quite fitting now that they have been
targeted by...

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Ignorance and darkness my Lord Your light of truth tried to extinguish but to no avail!








© Demetrios Trifiatis
       10 April 2017

* At least 45 people were killed and dozens injured on Palm Sunday bombings at two Coptic churches in...

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a grandfather clock in  the corner of the
 room turns its grayhead and sounds.

it is the hour of salt... it is the hour of aged reason. 
 and i have lost all affection for the sweet naval of
 oranges, which clamor one on top...

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In

                                         the house

  ...

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