A Cairo’s Museum Jocular Fantasmagory
Yitzhak Rosenbloom 1934 (Alexandria)
A Cairo’s Museum
Jocular Fantasmagory
Cairo - 1949
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Satanic quatrains
Toll an apostasy knell
Summoning grim
And sunless hell
My noisy overflowing tram
In unbelievable deafening cram
Announces, in ‘Bukhur’ scents
Its Cairo’s Museum Immense !
Impatient and fidgety as ever
Eager to enter I stood in line
Sensing intense
Extra-sensorial sense
I marveled at everything there
Becoming its true, and I’ll swear
unconsciously conscious
Of turning in thin air
Then became I,
ferocious, so was I told
Viciously malevolent,
and wicked occultly bold
Turning deep darker
In the blackest muss
My blood turned to a fetid
malodorous sickly pus
And as much as
I NOW know
Refraining from timely
And lucid saying NO !
Joined I
Apopsi’s (*) demonic mystery
And sunk in its wild-eye
Murderous tyranny
I knew too much, so was I told
summoned and accused
Of worst sidereal galactic
calamity, of times of old
Facing a vengeful
Cruel maledictory
And demonic
woe valedictory.
BUT THEN SALLY CAME
Tel Aviv - 1958
Swearing a new loving
faith eternal
I lightly forswore
my vow infernal
And the sweetest girl
I so much love
Now is my divine
most delightful dove
(*) Apopis / Apep: in ancient Egyptian creed an unruly disorderly Demonic Serpent that spreads madness, confusion and chaos
About this poem
A 15 years old youngster in 1949, is deeply moved during one of his visits to the Cairo Museum - these were then his imagined impressions - Many years later he chooses to add sunshine to the poem and dedicates it to his lovely wife -As a matter of fact, his English is mostly self-taught
Written on July 02, 2023
Submitted by rosbri31958 on February 19, 2023
Modified on March 14, 2023
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Quick analysis:
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,318 |
Words | 246 |
Stanzas | 13 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 6, 4, 1 |
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