Fling him into the Nile, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth.

Latin proverbs
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Don't demand that what you write in the Nile will be read in the desert.

Ethiopian proverbs
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Sinister Crocodile

A muddy water, beyond ground, abound,
jazzy verses, happy lol, gals are on kohl,
to accompany my brisk stroll, a big dhole!
wants to bite my behind, a sinister hound..

I playfully swim, in river Nile, for a long mile
cute birds around peep, the water is deep,
joyfully splashing I flip, stunning to beep!
kissed resurrected vile - sinister crocodile!

Fast I start propellin', so forgive my spellin',
in Nile salvation lies, under a swarm of flies,
dead spirits there rise, to ask for apple pies,
I swim clearly yellin', and fly as a Zeppelin..

The dhole sits on the banks, horridly barks,
frightful feeling hopeless, Nile is bottomless,
nevertheless, the croc wears bikini topless,
like with idiots or drunks, my power flunks!

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poem by Giorgio Veneto
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Faith' is a fine invention

faith is Nile's flood
setting ground for grace
faith - it flies in and out
a mother bird divides feed
the blessed a bushel
the others little by little
the almighty plays a game of chess -
- listens to spiritual music -
- and hums his heavenly nursery rhyme
that calms terrified earthly souls -
faith is Nile's flood that springs silent cheers from heart to heart

inspired by

'Faith' is a fine invention
When Gentlemen can see—
But Microscopes are prudent
In an Emergency.
Emily Dickinson

poem by John Tiong Chunghoo
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We are no guiltier in following the primative impulses that govern us than is the Nile for her floods or the sea for her waves.

quote by Marquis de Sade
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Words of Consolation on a Wet Day in the Lake District

I dreamt I flew as ibis fly
o'er sand and palm and sunny Nile
when all at once, there caught my eye
a host of grinning crocodile

poem by Michael Shepherd
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Between Africa and Europe I

Between Africa & Europe
We sat on the rocks of the islanded Nile
Somewhere below Aswan
The inkwell water smooth running between our toes
The silt of Africa behind Aswan's mighty hand

Why did we leave?
Why did we come home?

Between Africa & Europe my mind halts
In this poem of last returns.

There we are placed:
I swimming
You watching
The light of the Sahara still burnishing our skin
The cold dark depths of the river
Hiding our last desires
And they will never resurface beyond this picture
I treasure here

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poem by Tommy Stroller
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In the Tavernas

I wallow in the tavernas and brothels of Beirut.
I didn't want to stay
in Alexandria. Tamides left me;
he went off with the Prefect's son to earn himself
a villa on the Nile, a mansion in the city.
It wouldn't have been right for me to stay in Alexandria.
I wallow in the tavernas and brothels of Beirut.
I live a vile life, devoted to cheap debauchery.
The one thing that saves me,
like durable beauty, like perfume
that goes on clinging to my flesh, is this: Tamides,
most exquisite of young men, was mine for two years,
and mine not for a house or a villa on the Nile.

poem by Constantine P. Cavafy
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Sheth

Give me this beautiful young woman as a wife,
For i am lying on my bed waiting for her;
Becasue my heart strongly wants her love,
And i am Sheth from the land of her muse.

Speak tenderly to my heart oh my sweet one,
For you are the only woman that i want;
And by the River Nile i will wait for you.

by the River Nile,
There i sat lonely to watch what goes on;
For beauty and pleasure came and bathed my eyes,
And out of the river came seven cows!

They grazed among the reeds of my love,
For on the river bank i do wait always for my lover;
So give me this beautiful woman as a wife.

poem by Edward Kofi Louis
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Today the traveller on the Nile enters a wonderland at whose gates rise the colossal pyramids of which he has had visions perhaps from earliest childhood.

quote by James H. Breasted
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Life Becomes An Experience Of Wild Delight

I’m convinced that the karma I have to carry,
laid upon me by the Western heritage while
being born in Africa, where maize is the staple
and I’m allergic up to suffocating; is the result
of negative levels of consciousness inherited
from many previous lifetimes living in abject
misery – now is my chance to raise the vibrations –
this crocodile-mind driving me to seek knowledge
and information at the speed of a Grand Prix,
might help to raise my state of consciousness

From its normal level of three, where life seems
meaningless, through level four where life seems
futile at times, to level five with its bubbly feeling
of happiness; and level six – the magical state where
life becomes an experience of wild delight - I have
to acquiesce to the Nile-Crocodile and its anti-social
demands; when Alice wants to go out and socialize;
when Cinderella dreams of beautiful gowns, pumpkin
coaches and footmen; the Nile-Crocodile simply

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poem by Margaret Alice
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Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile: Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.

quote by Muhammad Iqbal
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Distance from America

Africa so far away, where the Nile River parts its roots
A savanna oasis of desert plumes
America fills its belly with drums
To unmask the dark flames of night

poem by Angela Khristin Brown
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To The Nile

Month after month the gathered rains descend
Drenching yon secret Aethiopian dells,
And from the desert’s ice-girt pinnacles
Where Frost and Heat in strange embraces blend
On Atlas, fields of moist snow half depend.
Girt there with blasts and meteors Tempest dwells
By Nile’s aereal urn, with rapid spells
Urging those waters to their mighty end.
O’er Egypt’s land of Memory floods are level
And they are thine, O Nile--and well thou knowest
That soul-sustaining airs and blasts of evil
And fruits and poisons spring where’er thou flowest.
Beware, O Man--for knowledge must to thee,
Like the great flood to Egypt, ever be.

poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley
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There was an Old Man of the Nile,
Who sharpened his nails with a file,
Till he cut out his thumbs,
And said calmly, 'This comes
Of sharpening one's nails with a file!'

limerick by Edward Lear
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Poem about Poetry - when poetry comes

when poetry comes
a full moon pulls
at the sea

the mind's
flooded
with ideas

the nile
overuns
its banks

and a page
flows
and
shines
with lunar
wisdom
and blessings

poem by John Tiong Chunghoo
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Down The Nile

Lying right beside you all the things we done
This I didn't plan now I understand we're one
We belong together no more time to fight
Underneath the skin we can let it in and float it through the night
And I aint never been here before
And you you , you come and knock on my door
(chorus)
Floating down that moonlight river
Lighter than a child
Warmer than the seven breezes
Floating ~ floating down the Nile
Softer than the clouds around us
Filling up my eyes
Silky like your burning kisses
Floating ~ floating down the Nile

song performed by Heart
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Nile Crocodile In The Sunshine

The Nile Crocodile
needs to lie in the sun
to digest her
crocodilean breakfast
and longs for a swim
in the cool blue water
though it is winter
in Crocodile country
the evergreen leaves
sparkle with drops of diamond
in winter’s silvery sun
sky shining in brilliant blue
the Nile Crocodile
lies in the sunshine
warming her cold-blooded skin
guilty as ever
for not checking the kids
or helping with homework
leaving the kitchen
in a state of horror

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poem by Margaret Alice
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No, 'tis slander, whose edge is sharper than the sword, whose tongue outvenoms all the worms of Nile, whose breath rides on the posting winds, and doth belie all corners of the world.

quote by William Shakespeare
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4 And 8

A very hard anddifficult road to climb,
Like the unusual kind as noted by others;
But the sings of the numbers 4 and 8 are in your mind,
And like the White Nile closer to your house.

poem by Edward Kofi Louis
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