THE AMBASSADORS
Special Peace Issue
THE AMBASSADORS
Special Peace Issue
REFLECTIONS
Volume 2,
Issue 1
January 1999
Ms. Hala M. El-Banna has been writing
poetry since her early childhood and was awarded the Editors
Choice Award for Outstanding Achievement in Poetry presented by
the National Library of Poetry (NLP) for two consecutive years in
1994 and 1995.
She was also nominated by the Board of Directors and Advisory Committee of the International Society of Poets (ISP) as a distinguished member. Ms. El-Banna was inducted as International Poet of Merit for 1995 at the ISP Convention and Symposium in Washington, DC. She has nine excellent publications to her name, and she obtained her M.A. in the field of literary linguistics from the faculty of languages at Ain Shams University, while holding the position of Assistant Lecturer at Sadat Academy in Cairo, Egypt.
The Ambassadors previously published other poems written by
Ms. Hala El-Banna. Those can be
viewed in the past issues ARCHIVES section.
THE SEARCH
Feelings of perplexity mingle in the heart and mind,
A strange ocean of thought with a low and high tide,
A quest for the best and a refusal of any less,
Is what makes the search a little hard and tough.
Imagine a world of deep serenity;
Where anxiety is forgotten
And dreams are all begotten,
A world where truth exists
And lies perish in mist,
Where hopes and dreams come true
and the rules for thee might be:
Conquer the bad, try to be strong.
Never give in for he who's wrong.
Defend the poor, orphan and child.
Have mercy on him who's sick an' old.
Remember that love is the only code,
Whereby to achieve the only goal,
Of a world so right, yes a world so bright.
