A Cairo’s Museum Jocular Fantasmagory



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

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Written on July 02, 2023

Submitted by rosbri31958 on February 19, 2023

Modified on March 14, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XAA BCXC DDBB AEBB AABA FGXG ABXB BHIH FAFI GXJG KAJA XXXKAK XLEL B
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

Yitzhak Rosenbloom

Born in Alexandria, Egypt in 1934 - Retired -� Three beautiful daughters nine grandchildren very much in love with Sally my lovely wife more…

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