Egypt Poems - Poems about Egypt

I was crafted for you long ago of bronze Carried by Egyptians like fine silk I was once the ankh pressed against your pain We crossed the Nile while pharaohs slept in lotus dreams The desert was once our home and Cleopatra, our Queen While the queen courted Caesar and General Ptolemy ruled We clung to the fevered silver of the stars But now is...

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They rise like ancient dreams From the sands of Egypt Gently kissing the sky Whispering to the heavens. How grand they are The pyramids of Giza With pride so high They paint the sky. What you see are stones stiched With hands together so neat Each edge lay in total agreement To a will of a heart with ailment. But Pharoah saw a dream One the captures the...

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I wasn't a native in the land, but I blended in wasn't a place I called home, but I dwelt it simply a misfit trying to fit in a victim of circumstance a weakened soul that knew no resistance adapted to the cruelty and swore my allegiance In the mist of the pain I found closure despite the stress, i took...

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I only remembered it for a minute second Some dream bound for the black hole. A minuscule moment it was Slipping into the fabric of no dimension. The actor forgetting their single stage moment In the shortest act created for the oblivion. Recording under my attentive fatigue: Running! In a state of dead weight Away from the fictitious villains of terror Scurrying up...

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Salt from the sands of Egypt Sprinkled into wine To banish dark memories Red wine mixed with myrrh Infused with pink salt Through wisdom Praise!...

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My dreams became galling To my fratricidal brothers My father's favor appalling Birthed from different mothers "The master of dreams is coming." Down the cistern they tossed me Their plan to kill me numbing My dreams engulfed in irony Reuben discouraged their plan They sold me to a caravan My father instead reaps deceit "Wild beasts he could not defeat." From Dothan to Egypt I...

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POEM TO RENEE, MASTER HEALER Perfectly proportioned Greek goddess except her philosophies were somewhat eastern or eternal Gold locks alight magical medicine woman aflame with Sakara heat feeds us walnuts wrapped in dates Blond lashes thick as a witches broom crown holding vine veins entwined Serpent spirited she blows crimson notes into our stretched out poignant palms Dissolve untenable unfathomable fears ! dissipate sorrows of...

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the Egyptian queen's eye make-up had to be perfect she instructed her face painter to make it extra green and the blackest ebony you can imagine she instructed him the harried creator had to add more lead and more copper each time he thought it was right she shot him down More green, more black, and she frowned at his...

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Serpents in Egypt engraved images for each being Unveiling the lack of discursive reasoning in the heavens Not manmade patterns to represent sounds and reasonings...

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Augustus was on his way to conquer her people powerful Nubian Queen Amanirenas launched her own surprise attack on the Romans lead army of thirty thousand conquered three Roman Cities...

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scarab glinting indigo and peacock symbol of resurrection desert phoenix you are a jackal waiting, traitorous, by my grave to lunge and devour me, licking my blood from your snout you cannot consume my heart, organ of my soul for it has been weighed and measured and I am gone to Osiris but – see there peeking out, brilliant with the sun, a tiny hint of emerald glimmers in my smile...

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pharaoh's scarab eternity's talisman regenerative afterlife rebirth ancient Egypt's obsession winged scarab takes flight great significance scarab held in diseased hand talisman of hope 'T' Words - Poetry Contest Chosen Word: Talisman. Sponsored by: Constance La France 13/04/2023 Pixabay Image: PatternPerfectArt...

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These are modern English translations of ancient Egyptian Harper's songs. Harper's Song: Tomb of Djehutiemheb translation by Michael R. Burch The sky is opened for you, the earth opened for you, for you the good path leads into the Necropolis. You enter and exit like Re. You stride unhindered like the Lords of Eternity ... Harper's Song: Tomb of Iki translation...

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Behold Queen of Priestesses I bow my head in your sanctuary Of cool stone, circling your obelisk Receiving roses and papyrus to cover my breasts of aching love and thorns Glyphs pierce my skin I thank you for God’s grapes put before me and the many Jewels for my altar to the Sun Your emeralds dissolve in the Rivers...

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I miss her, Mother Egypt and those friends I left behind, timeless history, marvels and mysteries etched in stone by her own scribes. Longing for the waters of the nourishing River Nile and surrounding seas, the laughter and smiles of everyone who once loved and greeted me. Near the shores of Alexandria, Abu Qir and Fort Qaitbey, Where Cleopatra's palace once stood in somber ruins, she...

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