Egypt
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This narrow vein
pulses in red earth
blood of thousands
meanders
through valleys barren
a surface wounded
cries dry tears
down to Iskandariyya (1)
White sails cover
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Categories:
khamsin, culture, sad,
Form: Free verse
The Wild Winds - Not the Williwaw
...As the screaming Sirocco swept the sands,
Suffocating the Shiekh's Sixth Sick Sheep,
It's sister, Simoon, soon sought to strike
The sweat-suffering Sultan's sweet sleep.
Then came the Khamsin, an...
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Categories:
khamsin, fun, humor, nature, wind,
Form: Alliteration
Misty Clouds
...Suddenly it looks misty
and cloudy.
A miasma of our duplicitous past
Is hanging over the Niger.
Blowing down from the polar.
It looks like rain again.
Rain again,
Whoever wants it to rain again.
Wh...
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Categories:
khamsin, allegory, confusion, courage, dark,
Form: Didactic
I Am Africa, I Am Man
...I am Africa, I am man
Hear my drums, know my heart beat
My sorrow is not metered in iambic lines
Life does not speak that way
So artificial this enumeration of joy
So false this constant rise an...
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Categories:
khamsin, inspirational, on writing and
Form: Free verse