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Wreckage afloat ..
Batteling
an inevitable fall
With a tenuous grip
Hanging to a
vanishing hope
Oh distant birds
coming or
departing away…
Is it a sunrise treat
or a sunset ailing and
doped
Mayday , mayday..
ashes in thin air …
A battered soul holding to
wreckage
officially … still
afloat ..
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Nubian Motifs
I wish I could have done some justice to the beauty of Nubia. Despite of my absorption with it, I have not in reality seen it…or at least the true one…what I visited last year was just a Nubian village in Aswan..you can call it Nubian Tourist settlement… meant for people like me with white shirts and shorts to see ,take pictures and buy cheap Galabiah (which I did..as I was supposed to do)… I have managed to feel through the fake…I didn`t miss the true Nubian soul, the architecture and the interiors… I am now fantasizing about the real thing ..the true Nubia…further past the catracts in Northen Sudan…who will take me inside a house of a Nubian who have never seen a toursit in his life…what would that feel like… I am dreaming of walls built by hand, mixing golden soil with sweat…then someone grabs a brush and paints his ancestors souls right there…. Pride and history on walls for us to see…. I now understand how the displaced Nubians feel… How can we repay them … if ever possible….
My last Pictures of Nubian Motifs concludes my journey through the Beautiful Nubia….
You can read further about Nubia in this excellent article…
http://www.saudiaramcoworld.com/issue/200604/the.decorated.houses.of.nubia.htm
Golden desert sliced by the blue Nile…
Nothing beats the sharp line between the golden desert , the blue sky and the blue Nile…. so clear..sure.. and confident… thousands of years of coexistence.
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Freelance Tourist Guide
We were in a Falouka in the middle of the Nile at Aswan…and this boy just showed up…floating on his makeshift board against our mighty Falouka… what is he doing?…. a tourist guide offering his services in different languages….
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