Short Luxor Poems

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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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 silent nods.

"All of this rubbing of Time
As fierce these sands blow
Is, in defacing, blunt-clawed!
Bears Nile's hexopods"....

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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 right way
it was my bedroom at night
my mother's pantry by day
a lounge where my dad like a doc upon a cadaver dissected
The Star while his kids goggled at Luxor television
I grew up in a shack protected
by corrugated irons walls of a mansion...

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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 because

a wall of wonderment
was approaching
from the north

and as so suggested
docking and battening
down the hatches

before going below
i looked up to see
the only sandstorm

i've ever seen
but it blasted
my mind into

a glass
memory...

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