Tag: egypt
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Cat Temples (Karnak and Memphis)
See the people Living along the Nile Dedicated ailurophiles None dare defy nor defile The feline idols which stare At sand keeping Djinn away Protecting busy quays and bays From sudden invasions By the sea people.
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Night Drive Neon Stained Skies
Key to things beyond my ken Obelisk tip is called Ben Ben It represents primordial land Song stage on which Atum stands. Drive what feels like ages Trees instead of walls still cages My life a thousand variations on beiges Need captain’s holiday on a Bejor lakeshore, no room on Risa Always expecting a downpour,…
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When I was twenty
When I was twenty, plenty notions and mouthy Pouting when I’m scant potions Anything potable I’m mouthing Feeling shouty, my demons crawl out me A fiend freed is a fiend indeed Scouting for potential excitements I’m like Pharaoh in violence Ra’s scythe swung the trial ends Sobek drinks a red Nile You said yes but…
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Sligo
Here every gatepost is one Yeats leant against It’s like they’re obsessed, facades wearing fragments of stanzas Strangers mates you haven’t met yet, enemies friends kept at breast He’ll be a second coming now he’s gone, due after Godot, gone with winds he worshipped His cold eye cast like a spell, his grave aligned to…
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Lorebrandisher
Every blade two sides the stoved hoards cleft by my Jove sword Smashed at Djahy the sea peoples, horned helms wave-stolen Red foam the rivers, delighting Sobek’s kin, devouring the deads’ skin Jah he spoke through Selassi imperial preference divine communion Thessaly Where Princes go for quests, ram-obsessed uncles hell bent on dominion, crown kept…
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