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Premium Member - the Fabulous Queen of Egypt -
Woke up to a new life in Egypt
I was young not more than seventeen years
Adorned with gold and precious stones
My body was in the shroud...

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Categories: egypt, history, life, love, me,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Oh Jerusalem
Remember

Israel of three thousand years
expulsed at times
enslaved by the Romans
gassed by Europe
persecuted by Saudi-Arabia
murdered by Iran and Iraq
shackled by Egypt
attacked by Jordan
robbed by Syria
sold out...

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Categories: egypt, allah, bible, god, gospel,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Forgive You
You lost my life.
     Sharp as a knife...
     You lost a lot of things.
     Your memory in my heart
     Still sings...

Today...

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Categories: egypt, abuse, father, father son,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Watan - Homeland
I never saw my home land,
when I see it on TV,
a strange ache is inside me,
I do not understand.

I was born in (censored),
a country far...

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Categories: egypt, beautiful, home, longing,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Seven Kingdoms
			I

The Holy Bible said seven kingdoms would arise,
then like windblown grains of sand, fall to the dust
Six kingdoms have come and gone, blinked their eyes
and...

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Categories: egypt, judgement, religious, spiritual, truth,
Form: Crown of Sonnets



Exerpts From Hitler's Diary 1941
EXERPTS   FROM   HITLER’S   DIARY   1941

"I never travel without my diary, one should always have something sensational to...

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Categories: egypt, funnywar, crazy, june, war,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member What Am I
Who Art Thou?

Thou carriest me to distant clime, to Egypt in my mind.
I’m Cleopatra, naked. In thy folds, I solace find.
Thou art gentle, like sweet...

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Categories: egypt, me, nature,
Form: Personification
An Inspiring Pile of Shoes
I attended a large gathering and took some time
to observe the great assortment of shoes stacked on the racks
I saw new shoes, pricey shoes, and...

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Categories: egypt, humor, inspirational, social,
Form: Quatorzain
Faces
If I could have the enigmatic face of Monalisa,
If I could be that face which carries secret in a smile,
then maybe you could be My...

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Categories: egypt, imagination, sensual,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Sequestration
I never told anyone how my ears reverberate in a silent room.
The whirring drone ever present, a conquistador of my private spaces.
This is my cohabitation...

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Categories: egypt, death, loneliness, longing, pain,
Form: Free verse
Know Your Worth
You are so much more than your hips or your thighs.
More than the stares and the glares, or some young man’s lies
BUT YOU HAVE TO...

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Categories: egypt, devotion, uplifting,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Invention of Zero
Zero.
By which nothing is divided.
No zero
no negative
no opposite
no hope
no Adam, no apple, no marriage, no morning.
No mirror
no knowledge
no God, no soul, no ear lobe, no...

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Categories: egypt, father, future, home, hope,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Romance Day and Night
Romance Day And Night

How the Romans played their moonlit dreams
splashing out near viaducts of love I can only
wonder same as with knights in shining armour
or...

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Categories: egypt, romance, prejudice,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member I Say It How It Is In My Eyes
Strange this all falls on deaf ears 
a mockery of justice twist whichever way you wish 
people killed in a hospital act of terror yes...

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Categories: egypt, abortion, anti bullying, betrayal,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member All In a Day At the Louvre
Magnetic attraction, enchanting dream of a lifetime -
	majestic pyramid attracts my eye, 
	mystique draws me in
	
O, your architecture! Pavilions, colonnades; art enclosing art,
	every square inch...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: egypt, art, paris, travel,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs