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    DREAMS FROM THE NILE: Poetry Inspired while Living in Egypt
    DREAMS FROM THE NILE: Poetry Inspired while Living in Egypt
    DREAMS FROM THE NILE: Poetry Inspired while Living in Egypt
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    DREAMS FROM THE NILE: Poetry Inspired while Living in Egypt

    By Alfred Greenberg

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    My time in Egypt came after many seasons of frantic activity in life: raising a large family, meeting deadlines, overseeing projects, and striving to achieve goals—going, going, going. Being in Egypt allowed me to switch into a different mode, to stop all my running around and learn to simply be. While there, I lived for much of the time in Luxor and Aswan, close to the Nile.

    I found that I not only drew energy and strength from the iconic river, but that it also became a calming source for me, allowing for many deep emotions to rise and be felt, engendering a renewed sense of peace within. In essence, I ultimately found the soul of the Nile to be my comforter, my friend, and my teacher. This collection of poems reflects the peace and healing I found within the framework of such beauty and simplicity.

    The poetry collection is divided into seven parts, each one representing some element of the land and people, as well as lessons they taught me while I was there. Just as my experience in Egypt was teaching me to be a more quiet, contemplative person, poetry became a new form of expression of that new state of being, a mystical language, a way for me to freely articulate my deepest feelings.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAlfred Greenberg
    Release dateFeb 16, 2019
    ISBN9781386586739
    DREAMS FROM THE NILE: Poetry Inspired while Living in Egypt
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    Alfred Greenberg

    About the Author Mr. Greenberg left the United States at the early age of seventeen, upon hearing George Harrison’s song for Bangladesh. He set off on a humanitarian quest to help relieve the suffering of people in that war-torn land, and while en route, helped establish halfway houses for drug addicts in India, Nepal, and Afghanistan. In Calcutta, he met and joined forces with Mother Teresa, who was in the early days of her work there, helping her in caring for people at the Home for the Dying. He later went on to open a humanitarian project in Bangladesh, where he remained for five years. Later, while back in the United States, he, along with his sons, launched the pop brother band, Bon Voyager, releasing three CDs of original music, and performing throughout the country to help promote various charitable causes. As a middle-aged man, he set off again, this time to live in the heart of the Middle East. He arrived in Cairo shortly before the revolution broke out, living through historic times with the Egyptian people. What he experienced there profoundly affected him. This book, part memoir and part travel odyssey, is an account of that journey. Mr. Greenberg is the author of two other books due to be released soon. For further information, kindly visit the website: www.apilgrimsdiary.com.

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      DREAMS FROM THE NILE - Alfred Greenberg

      DREAMS FROM THE NILE:

      Poetry Inspired while Living in Egypt

      Alfred Steven Greenberg

      Copyright @ 2018 by Alfred Steven Greenberg

      All rights reserved. This book or any portion thereof

      may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever

      without the express written permission of the publisher

      except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.

      Printed in the United States of America

      First Printing, 2018

      www.apilgrimsdiary.com

      Dedication

      This book is dedicated to Egypt’s poor. The simplicity of their lives, and the heartfelt kindness they exuded, impacted me greatly. I was able to re-focus on what is truly essential in life, helping me become a more centered, grounded person. I was once again reminded to follow the way of simplicity and to be filled with gratitude for the small things that come my way. The language of poetry became the medium by which I could best express those sentiments.

      I also want to dedicate this book to Egypt’s martyrs and their families. I am convinced that the young men and women who so bravely and unflinchingly gave their lives for the betterment of their country, left an indelible mark on our world.

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      Contents

      Part I Letting Things Be

      1 Into the Beautiful Unknown

      2 Beautiful Nothing

      3 If Time Stood Still

      4 The Pillow

      5 Any Dream

      6 Obscurity

      7 Imperceptible

      8 Heavenly Sleep

      9 Delicate

      10 Something Pure

      11 It Is of Men

      12 Let Dreams Be Born

      13 Confessional

      14 Walk with Me

      15 Reborn

      16 Small

      17 Bounce

      Part II People of the Nile

      18 Come to Egypt

      19 Blue Rain

      20 Sleeping in Your Womb

      21 Egypt Is Me

      22 Holes in Your Clothes

      23 Magic and Mystery

      24 Martyrs

      25 Mother of Life

      26 Poor

      27 Tea Shop

      28 Curtain of Light

      29 Accepted

      30 Knitted

      31 Smoke

      32 Perfect Egypt

      Part III Beauty of Islam

      33 Robed Men

      34 Domes

      35 Mosque

      36 Portals

      37 The Veil

      38 When You Knelt Down to Pray

      Part IV Life Lessons by the Nile

      39 Where

      40 Throw Yourself to the Wind

      41 Integrity

      42 Nomad

      43 Sea of Life

      44 Know

      45 When…

      Part V When the River, Mountains, and Desert Speak

      46 Where the River Speaks

      47 Desert

      48 The Golden Stairway

      49 The Humble River

      Part VI Luxor of Gold

      50 Luxor Horse

      51 Luxor Temple

      52 Luxor Village

      Part VII Love Songs from the Nile

      53 Only the Heart Knows

      54 The Imperial Decree

      55 I Breathe

      Part I

      Letting Things Be

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      1 Into the Beautiful Unknown

      No, walls cannot define me

      Liberty, the author of my destiny

      Imagination’s story bursts dynamic,

      potent truths to be unmasked

      And so, I sail

      into the beautiful unknown

      A free man on a journey,

      where

      parameters are nonexistent,

      stretched beyond my dimensions,

      when

      the highest principles of the heart

      form the adjoints of the universe

      And so

      I fall

      into

      the beautiful unknown

      A student of angels,

      the deepest abyss safe mud

      anchoring me,

      then

      sailing

      into exquisite waters

      into the beautiful unknown

      The darkness of my womb

      unleashes the fury of my power

      and my grain of truth

      swirls with atomic energy

      The little me

      becomes a powerful being

      I am returned to myself,

      delivered from the hands of

      strange men

      into the beautiful unknown

      Inexplicable yearning,

      overpowering fascination,

      everything immense,

      beyond this safe space

      and

      into the beautiful unknown

      2 Beautiful Nothing

      I dive into beautiful blue nothingness,

      losing myself in its depths,

      and we become one

      Nowhere to go

      Nothing to do

      No one to be

      Just being and

      swimming in

      utter

      nothingness

      Beautiful nothing

      Letting yesterday

      be yesterday

      and tomorrow

      be tomorrow

      Just

      letting

      and hanging suspended

      between the two

      in the

      beautiful nothing

      of now,

      where there are

      no mistakes and

      there is

      no failure

      because everything

      just is

      There is nothing

      to question

      because I am living the question

      And there is

      no confusion,

      only reason

      And all the imperfections

      rise and fall into

      beauty and rhyme

      3 If Time Stood Still

      If time stood still

      And here and now was all there is

      And

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