Egypt Poems

KEMET LIVES

Along the River Nile
Lies a potent earth so fertile
Before it met a sudden death
In the cold hands of civilization.

Now it lives only as a ghost
Once a symbol of becoming
A beacon of hope
A name we carried like breath.

They stripped her of her story
Wrapped her in another’s image
Called her ruins what was once glory
And buried her truth

confidence of Pharaoh Akhenaten

Pharaoh Akhenaten liked his potbelly to show
He told the artists to draw him Rubenesque without woe
An Egyptian monarch with confidence back in the day
So, the skilled artesian painted Akhenaten exactly that way.

A PROMISE TO M

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

PYRAMIDS OF EGYPT

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

A Step Back to Egypt

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

The Walls of Egypt

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

SPHINX STONE

 
I am Sphinx Stone, Sun stationed statue
silent sculptured synoptic, not marble or 
granite nor black tourmaline or crystal 
timelines cutting cross my magnetic 
magenta miracle to dissipate in dry 
desert winds, my gaze unmoved 
as quizzing quantum queens swirl 
around a Blue Planet ascending

Sphinx Stone gathering goddess’ goodness 
whilst slippery Sophi-el sprinkle sparkle 
Nile

Communion Wine of Wisdom

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!

Glue of Goshen

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

POEM TO RENEE : MASTER HEALER

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

More Green and the Blackest Ebony

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

Hieroglyphics of Heaven

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

Powerful Nubian Queen Amanirenas

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

Anubis

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

Talisman

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







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