Short Egypt Poems
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The cadaver of an emperor
Lying in wait at the bottom of the catacombs
He is halcyonily waiting
Not for bandits but for Life
Form:
Murky of echoes as ancestors surround them
Dusty whilst heat stuns my skin and breath
The sun settles as the pyramids carve me a memory
Behold the eye of Horus
Ancient Egyptian deity of protection
Royal beauteous goddess
Safe travels –
AP: Honorable Mention 2021
Sphinx
Sits on
Burning sands
Sunning herself
In the noonday sun
She needs no chaise
She is a
Bedrock
Sphinx.
egypt calls to me
a past life there beckons and
i visit in dreams
scenarios rolling by
what ancients sages reveal
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!
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
Magic is how I describe ancient Egypt
A source of amazement, this long-ago secret
It baffles the mind
This magic designed
Structures based on techniques most recent
There was a camel in Egypt with mumps
That infected his humps with huge lumps
The vet shook his head
Said, "You're better off dead"--
After finding some new lumps in his rump
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
The Egyptians walked sideways I figure
to conceal the fine points of their figure.
In a desperate scrimmage
with their own body image
diet mania they would prefigure.
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.
Do you have a different
Way of giving?
Perhaps you've been trying
To be like everyone else.
When you start to question your
Reasons for leaving,
Remember;
Even the Israelites fled Egypt.
You, too, need to go.
Mubarak's "soul" appears to be,
Mere shoe waves in the air,
Said he'd go, changed his mind,
The people are still there!
Now nothings been resolved,
Not a solitary thing.
But what we know, for certain,
CYBERSPACE is KING!
Cleopatra, the last Pharaoh of Egypt,
could have had Caesar or Anthony as a co-regent,
but rather than putting such power in either man's grasp,
she put leadership decisions in the path of an asp.
Like a star...
in the sky.
Like a bird...
don`t be shy.
You will always..
be able to fly.
You will stand
you will pray.
No one can..
let you die.
you will always...
be my sly.
O`my home...
O`my country.
I`ll never..
let you cry.
egypt
anurous goat
cornelian bullfinch
bareheaded
antiproton
in a banknote
hawfinch
with urinalysis
the approver
was seasick
hallelujah ?
treasurership
will prove
responsibility
again
factual
(Weekly Magnetic Poetry Challenge • August 3–9, 2026)
her copper desert
flames old pyramid's headstone...
earth's timeless mystique
incense fill the wall
to seal odor of glory...
preserving legends
PremiereContest 120: Brian Strand
History fascinated us
From the hither and the beyond
Kings and Queens
Tutankhamun
His curse
His life
His youth
Would I have ventured into that tomb?
Had I been an archeologist?
On that dig?
In Egypt?
Of course!
In some ways I think
his curse has returned
I had a lekker time in Egypt
even though I didn’t visit a crypt
I drank, smoked, had fun with friends
later back on board someone stole my tens
still had fun on the last night there
and the cab ride was quite a scare
that was one of the ports I have seen
as a young sailor at age nineteen
“There is nothing worse than ignorance in motion” Goethe
Roaming round the white altars
Where pharaohs raised their arms
The black pig of ignorance
Casts a passing shadow
Across the shafts of Lotus columns
Erect Egyptian guardians of stillness
Watching undisturbed over eternal time
passion and grapes
elixir of lots
life mingled
with venom
power and youth
brush fire fingers
flickering
burning
yearning
caesarean coins
weigh down the neck
of the divine
so called
basket of snakes
Kim Rodrigues © 2017
EGYPT
IN OUR eyes IT LAYS
IN OUR HEART IT STAYS
FOR ITS LOVE WE CRAVE
IT FILLS OUR DAY AND NIGHT
till THE TWILIGHT
IT IS THE PLEASURE
IT IS WHAT wE MEASURE
WE WOULD TRAVEL AWAY UNTIL MAY
BUT ITS LOVE WOULD STAY
WE HIDE UNDER HER SHADE
AFTER EVERTHING we MADE
EGYPT IN OUR eyes LAYS
IN OUR HEART IT STAYS
Violence in the streets
Mankind seeks democracy
Cyberspace is KING!
Mubarak refused
To step down as President,
Uprise, Heaven Sent.....
The future is clear,
Blood will spill and Armies fall,
Cyberspace rules all ...
As Plan B unfolds,
The Whole World Is Watching You
Go Forth, See this through...
The glory that was Greece; the grandeur that
was Rome. The mystery of Egypt and
the Pharaohs' giant tombs. A Sphinx-cat
guards all treasures past in Ancient Egypt's land
Today the Sphinx bears witness to miles and
miles of sand. Glory faded, dessication
~ Pharaohs' pyramidal desecration
Iambic Pentameter