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Luxor Poems - Poems about Luxor

Shifting Gears
...Daffodils were bobbing, I never thought to ask why? January was the coldest - dreams don't care and the yellow trumpets were almost speaking and I almost listening. However, sex got through ......

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Categories: luxor, poetry,
Form: Free verse
TUTANKHAMUN
...Tutankhamun, a small bird of prey This pharaoh of Ancient Egypt Akhenaten’ son and his sister “the Young Lady”. Alas! Alas! Alas! Ay that was the name of his vizier His minister or favourite H......

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Categories: luxor, allegory,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member A Cautionary Tale
... Great is the battle, small the victory when all that is won is lost to mankind - in this war of worlds its great casualty is the fallen consciousness in our mind. From spear tip and ar......

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Categories: luxor, culture, humanity, perspective, world,
Form: Sonnet
Long Night
...He turned off the running water, soaped his face not glancing at the mirror, a long night ahead. He had four shadows on the four walls of this rental, not a good sign. When later he turned ......

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Categories: luxor, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Too Much Sun In Luxor
...Staring wide out from the past; Never seen to blink. Superior; nonchalent. As kings and as gods. Trace, as on a wall of air Speech; decipherable. As fades, fades, in front of each Awe which ......

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Categories: luxor, riddle,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Memories of Egypt
...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 su......

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Categories: luxor, allegory, allusion, christian, islamic,
Form: Rhyme
The Sun Kings
...A lone Nile felucca threads a path through a sorrel haze. Morning tea outside the Winter Palace. A Turkish cigarette mulling my wine. The waiter is Nubian. He whistles a Cairo melody as he sweeps......

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Categories: luxor, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member No Rosetta Stone
...the nile denial look sir have we found luxor seti who said he Open poetry 1 poetry contest Sponsored by: Charlotte Puddifoot 01/22/21......

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Categories: luxor, history, irony, word play,
Form: Haiku
The Sun Kings
...A lone Nile felucca threads a path through a sorrel haze. Morning tea outside the Winter Palace. A Turkish cigarette mulling my wine. The waiter is Nubian. He whistles a Cairo melody as he sweeps......

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Categories: luxor, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Felucca Dreams
...drifting drifting off to sleep going down the Nile once when now it seems i was a child and childishly these dreams were real never making it to Luxor at least by boat bec......

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Categories: luxor, muse,
Form: I do not know?
Doggy Woggy
...V.1: I know I acted like an odd fool When I told you I’m not at school I know I acted like I was so smart, But that’s all bull, not my work of art Pre-chapter: You got me singing my doggy wogg......

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Categories: luxor, deep, dog,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Egypt
...Green scene that caught and took me clean away, captivated on the sights as the train excels, on our progress in the same day, a rare place I will never know and gain. The Nile amongst the f......

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Categories: luxor, travel,
Form: Sonnet
I Grew Up In a One Roomed Shack
...I grew up in a one roomed shack a king size Coca-Cola space crammed like Marlboro cigars in a pack a place I ran to for defense my home which some see as a plight where my family had to find the......

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Categories: luxor, memory,
Form: Narrative
Egypt
...Luxor, oh Kharmack Temples to Amon, Amon Ra Pharaohs in sacred reverence For both gods lifted Along the majestic Nile Through Upper Egypt What an elite ... to stand quiet There, on the King......

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Categories: luxor, africa,
Form: Blank verse
Egypt!
...I know I haven’t been there yet, It’s the one thing that I do regret; There’s no place I would rather go Such history from so long ago Someday I will make that trip, Maybe by plane, maybe by......

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Categories: luxor, history, holiday, hope, life,
Form: Couplet

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