GEORGE ONSY

GEORGE ONSY

YOU ARE LOVE – 2

You are love

And so often

In my distress,

You surprise me

With a tender breeze

That softly soothes

My complaining skin.

Oh, such a bliss!,

And I wish to ask you:

Was it your whisper

Or your kiss?

YOU ARE LOVE - 3

You are love

And so it happened

That you formed me

Out of the bottomless

Abyss of nothingness

With your vision

Of a Divine Poet,

With your hands

Of an Almighty Sculptor,

With your fingers

Of a Harpist

Of eternal melodies.

Oh, oh, how I love

The miraculous masterpiece

Of art that I am!

FROM DEATH TO HIS WORST ENEMY – 5

I am DEATH,

So they call me

And so they fear me.

Again, you tiny poet

Whom nobody knows about

Dare veil my very existence

With your soulful doubt?

Don’t you know that

I’ve been there

Since the birth of life

And the irresistible LUST,

Since the beginning

Did I take for wife?

Yes, with her I used to

Hook Mortals unaware

That they would go

Empty handed

At last.

And I humbly reply:

Dear Death Sir,

In my helpless admiration,

I once depicted her

Somewhere in my past

As an Aphrodite’s statue,

Facing your fearful Anubis

Yet, my Beloved is still there,

Central, calling me to come out

Of her Kingdom of Dust.

THE TWENTIETH CENTURY'S LEGEND

In Memory of Mahatma Gandhi

Drowned deep into the Ganges

For love of my second Homeland,

My eyes raise from its holy core

To see those tiny pixels still floating

On its surface whispering to the shore.

The never-lying warm sunrays

Are still weaving a shining image

Of a little body with a giant soul,

Standing on history’s endless road

Forever and ever proud and tall

Having bowed for a long tough lifetime

Before human rights to freedom an’ dignity

Challenging the oppressors’ crime.

Shall I ask the pebbles who came

Dancing with those flowing pits

To tell me his name of great fame?

But as water pebbles can’t utter words,

Even letters like Ai, Bi, an’ Dhi,

Out of my depths the soul shouts loud:

It’s the ashes of Immortal Gandhi.

George Onsy© 2018

GEORGE ONSY

Dr. GEORGE ONSY (b. 1953) an Egyptian thinker, poet and artist, is a Professor of English and Art-architecture History at The Egyptian-Russian University, Cairo and other academies. His outstanding works of poetry and art calling for a universal unifying spirituality have been published in several international printed anthologies, magazines and e-zines. He is a recipient of several awards notably "The Global Icon of Peace Award”-2017 and “The Most Outstanding Peace Poet-2017” - 2018 (Nigeria) and “The Best Poet Award”-2017 (World Nation Writers Union, Kazakhstan). He is an Advisor/Intern. Director and a Jury Member for several international literary organizations, like the World Union of Poets (WUP) and Writers International Network (WIN), Canada. His mystical paintings have been exhibited in many countries. Two poetry-art collections have been published in India to his credit and an e-book on Bookemon.com.