Ahmad M. Bassioni Poems

Oh, dear love in nights of old
Your sweet sour sting over my lips
Deep in the Old City's bar, cold
Shivers my decayed spine with your tips
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For she walks in starlight
Amongst the vacant Cosmos lie
Deep in the caverns of night
Where rays of hope fade
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I

It was a night of heavy rain
In a cheap hotel room in downtown Spain
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Deep in the forest of memories
Beneath a black cold stone
A rose, planted by Hades
Stranger, to others... unknown.
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Silence I hear in this night
Different from what I'm used to
A cold chill and a dim light
Dawn came with hope and dew.
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October rust,
Dark clouds gathering over the mind
October dust,
Shivering wind aching the spine.
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Gather thee and gather me
Gather the mages to kill the night
Summon the witches, summon the three
Light the candles of black light.
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By the approach of winter,
Fog covering thy shores,
Though heavy but tender,
Ghost ships with bloody oars.
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Dark Embrace in winter's grace,
Burdened with warmth in thy
Arms holding me tight under space
Sky, stars surrounding a glittering eye.
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Under thy light in the midst of doom
Hell on this earth brought by thy race
Over itself through the same womb
Turned love to a shameful disgrace.
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