Sharm El Sheikh

Angela Topping

As far from home as we have ever been,
we gaze at strange stars in a desert sky,
cold distant suns which long ago have died.
As if assembled here on seventh day
an alien world appears in wilderness
a crazy lego Egypt built on sand
where palm trees tantalise in jewelled gowns;
Anubis, bastardised and sulking, sits
outside casinos with sarcophagi;
a price attached to everything except
the landscape: bluest sea and jagged rocks,
magnificent against a dusty land;
below the turquoise sea, fish cities thrive.
The Call to Prayer reverberates a sigh.

 

Sharm El-Sheikh is a major Egyptian resort on the Red Sea. It is on the east coast of the Sinai Peninsula.

Poetry Atlas has many poems about Egypt ancient and modern.


Main Location:

Sharm El-Sheikh, Qesm Sharm Ash Sheikh, South Sinai Governorate, Egypt

Sharm El-Sheikh, Sinai, Egypt

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