THE AMBASSADORS
Special Peace Issue
THE AMBASSADORS
Special Peace Issue
REFLECTIONS
Volume 2,
Issue 2
April 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 four other poems written
by Ms. Hala El-Banna. Those can be
viewed in the past issues ARCHIVES section.
IN THIS LIFE
In Our Life
Families have drifted apart
A gap so wide has separated
Brothers from sisters
Uncles from aunts
Husbands from wives
And Oh!
Kids from parents
In this Life
In Our Life
In complete
images
fill the portrait;
broken bits and pieces everywhere
reds, yellows and blacks have become
the colors of the day;
fire, death and plague
famine...
Are we still
there
admist thunderous echoes of pain
Are we still there
Amongst the ghostly blurred
Could we break through
to a brighter path of dignity
or is it our destiny?
