The Bride of the Nile
The Bride of the Nile
Hassan Hegazy Hassan
Egypt
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The hidden is revealed
The berries' leaves are scattered
One of the most beautiful Egyptian maid
made her way to the Nile
To marry herself to the King
Of Kings
after the loss of the dream
The white knight has lost his way,
and has taken another way
from the valley towards the north,
Searching for the white seagulls,
The crocodiles of the Nile used to
tramp under the winter lazy Sun
In the time of barrenness.
When the Nile asked for
his pride every year as usual
The white pigeon on the wedding dress,
has waited for the dream-knight
in vain, but
As the Moon may Knock at the door
Of those who are waiting at the door of hope
Asking for shelter and marriage,
To solve the bad luck
and the black magic
The mills may run
and the age flowers can smile,
The " Clever Hassan " may come
with his handsome face to explode
the spring of love
even without a white horse
or a Legal Maazoun from Al-Azhar
He may write the deal
and declare wedding and joy
So the singer happily chants :
" Please tell the Maazoun of our country to come
And fulfill our happiness and marriage ".
Is this love in the time of Globalization
and the open - door economy?
in the alternation of the Privatization
and the Privatization of the dreams?
we are lost between " The Two Palaces "
we are wasted between " The Two Ages "
we tied waistbands
we fastened bands on our lips
and chanted :
" No voice is louder than the voice of the battle "
The battle of " peace and security "
For the sake of the owner of the palace
Let what is for Caesar to Caesar
As tomorrow's bread can not feed
today's hungry men!
Do not wonder if you find me naked,
On one of the statues of Ramses ǁ
accompanied by the mummies
to my last destiny on the Sun ships
filled with tears
humble with low head
few words are still in my heart
from a message, left from a beloved,
dead, drowned, on his journey,
looking for tomorrow,
on the death steamship,
written with the heart blood,
It says :
"I married you to myself"
Whose letters are defaced
Between the dreams of the present
and the phantasm of tomorrow!
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Submitted by Hegazyhhh on February 21, 2020
Modified on April 02, 2023
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| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 2,119 |
| Words | 405 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 72 |
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