Egypto-mania 2000
REFLECTIONS
Egypto-mania 2000
REFLECTIONS
Volume 3,
Issue 1
January 2000
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 many publications to her name, and obtained her M.A. in the field of literary linguistics from the faculty of languages at Ain Shams University. She is currently enrolled in a PhD on psycholinguistics at Cairo University.
She currently has 16 publications in the National Library of Poetry (NLP),
"Poems of the World," and "Portals" quarterly magazine. Two
of her most recent works are currently in press at NLP. These are:
It's a jungle out there! (scheduled for publication in Winter 2000) &
Slaughtered dreams (scheduled for publication in Spring 2000)
The Ambassadors previously published six other poems written
by Ms. Hala El-Banna. These can be
viewed in the past issues ARCHIVES section.
A lifetime Journey
I
traveled far and wide
In search for a desire
That was made to inspire
The soul to aspire
And the mind to acquire
New horizons as power.
I was eight months and my tears
Were the only echo of my fears,
When I first started a journey of years;
Through London, Italy, Austria, Germany and Greece,
Belgium, Switzerland, Spain, Kuwait and Qatar,
Remembering France and the States.
Each and every one of them
A gem so precious to remember
With goals to achieve,
Memories and dreams;
Dreams to realize,
And memories to hang on to when down
A lifetime journey that molded me.
Now, viewing that portrait from afar
I appreciate and value
Every thorn that made me bleed
And every rose that made me bloom and blossom
Every moment that made me freeze
And every other that made me bleed
Every day and every night
Every winter and every summer
My rainy days and sunny ones
Every moonlight that inspired me
Every sunlight that woke me up
Every beat and every rhyme
The gift from above,
The faith within;
The lantern in the caravan of my life
