The Story of River Nile with Egyptian Women

Once upon a time in the beautiful ancient Egypt
The sun asked the river Nile
From where you got this golden color?
The river Nile said
It's the color of the Egyptian women skin
When they come to bath
I melt some of their skin's color
The sphinx asked the river Nile
From where you got this sweet taste? The river Nile said
My sweetness is from the sweat of the Egyptian women.
The pyramid asked the river Nile
Why you flooding up every year
The river Nile said
When i feel longing to have more women
The Egyptian men protested against the Nile
Please stop your sexual harass
They always come back asking for more
The river Nile asked
So do you give them what they need?
The Egyptian men said

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poem by hosny Soliman
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Ancient Egyptian Women Bathe In River Nile

The River Nile, the sphinx, the pyramids,
ask questions of us all, as do the bodies,
skin tones, sweet sweat, female Egyptians.

Ra and Nile melt golden skin colours,
into fresh taste of sacred Nile waters,
pyramids watch longing as Nile floods.

poem by Terence George Craddock
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A Letter to the River Nile!

It was 20 Hijri during Second Caliph of Islam Omar (RTA)

Egypt was conquered by the Muslims Led by Amor Ibnul us (RTA)

It was intense drought in Egypt Then!

The Nile has become Dry

People raised a conviction

When they throw a beautiful girl with rich clothes and ornaments on 18 day of the month

The Nile begins to flow with water!

Hearing this The Military commander in chief

Disapproved the idea saying it's a Jaheli Culture

And told people to wait and they waited for three months! But still the Nile didn't flow

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poem by Mohammad Jahoorul Islam
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I know my name.

The Nile does not know
That she is called the Nile.
New York does not know
That it is called New York.
I can not be like them
As I know what I am called.
03.04.2006

poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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Night Boat To Cairo

Night boat to cairo !!.....
Its just gone noon
Half past monsoon
On the banks of the river nile
Here comes the boat
Only half-afloat
Oarsman grins a toothless smile
Only just one more
To this desolate shore
Last boat along the river nile
Doesnt seem to care
No more wind in his hair
As he reaches his last half mile
The oar snaps in his hand
Before he reaches dry land
But the sound doesnt deafen his smile
Just pokes at wet sand
With an oar in his hand
Floats off down the river nile
Floats off down the river nile

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Poet Honours Poet Across Cultures

the wheel turns
full circle
turning turning

‘Terence George Craddock
With Honour On My Page’
is the poem ‘Ancient Egyptian

Women Bathe In River Nile’
which was inspired by the poem
‘The Story of River Nile

with Egyptian Women’
by Hosney Soliman.
Poet honours poet all with ears

to listen, hear our mind song,
flowing from the River Nile;
the sphinx, the pyramids,

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poem by Terence George Craddock
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The son of the nile thirsts for water.

Ethiopian proverbs
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One who drinks from the Nile must return.

Egyptian proverbs
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Greetings

Greetings to the tune fish in the Italian Coast,
And of the struggle of the Africans that crosses over!
From the Mediterranean Sea to reach out to your people,
But we still have the Blue-Nile nearby us.
Life in Sudan and of the heat of Africa,
You cannot separate the Pharaohs from the Nile;
And like olive oil, wine and vegetables.
Of the Berber and the Tuareg,
And my hope in Africa lives forever;
Greetings, greetings!
From slaves and camels i was sold together with you;
But today, i am free and i am sitting closer to the River Nile.

poem by Edward Kofi Louis
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He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.

quote by William Golding
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It is like using a spoon to get water from the nile.

Ethiopian proverbs
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Merciful Maker of Waters and Whiles

Merciful Maker of waters and whiles,
Spare please my son from the fierce crocodiles,
Then he too will know you.
I'll rear him to fear you.
He cannot survive in the waters of the Nile.
This trial is too great! The boy is my child!
O Merciful Maker of waters and whiles,
Spare please my son from the fierce crocodiles.

Pharoah's command is most certainly vile:
'Kill each boy child born in all of Israel! '
I hear mothers weeping.
The monsters are feasting.
A child's meat is sweet to those beasts in the Nile.
Revile this intrusion lest I fall beguiled,
O Merciful Maker of waters and whiles.
Spare please my son from the fierce crocodiles!

Alas, and I fear never more will I smile.
They've taken my baby boy down to the Nile.

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A Flower To Auroville Mother-49

African lily(Lily of the Nile
Agapanthus africanus)
White Lily of the Nile
(Agapanthus africanus f. albus)

So my journey will never end
As Lord hath shed His mercy
Flowering all over the land
Ceaseless to make me crazy

And on my journey such one day
I saw you oh, Lilies of the Nile
And rushed to you without delay
Bewitched by your umbel-style

Oh, wonder of all new wonders
Ever since then perennial you're
My heart steady in fresh visuals
Visioning blue and white flare

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poem by Indira Renganathan
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Chocolate look

Chocolate look
Cocoa lips
I saw Nile in your eyes
Standing at the subway!

poem by Framarz Bagheri
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When the Nile knows a secret the desert will soon know it too.

Ethiopian proverbs
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Orion's Belt Pyramids

The River Nile,
the sphinx,
the pyramids,

haunt humanity
with mystic life
giving generations

golden waters,
questions
transforming

mind body
through time,
echo trio stars

Orion's Belt
in star sky
ground images,

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poem by Terence George Craddock
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The Crescent

The sun's boat is broken and drowned in the Nile
But a piece is floating about on the water of the Nile

The twilight's pure blood drips into the sky's basin
Has the lancet of Nature drawn the sun's blood?

Has the sky stolen the ear ring of the evening's bride?
Or has the fragile cord in the Nile's waters strolling?

Your caravan is afoot without help of bell's call
The human ear cannot hear your foot-steps' sound

You show the spectacle of rise and fall to the eyes
Where is your home? To which country are you going?

O star-like planet take me with yourself
The prick of Longing's thorn keeps me restless

I am seeking light, I am weary in this habitation
I am the restless child in the existence's school…

poem by Allama Muhammad Iqbal
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The nile has no resting place it wanderes around carrying a log.

Ethiopian proverbs
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The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.

quote by Charles Caleb Colton
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Cover up the good you do -- do like the Nile and conceal your sources.

Egyptian proverbs
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