Khamsin Poems - Poems about Khamsin

...-1- 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 ......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...