Nermin Nazim• Show poetry

 This is  a present from my friend Andrew Wilkinson to me, thank you Andy Dearest

And this is a precious Jewel I add to my crown and it was the present of my dear Bedovitch,
thank you my dear.

“Of the pharaoh’s”
• of the pharaoh’s city I met a girl
Her hair spangled in pearls
Surpassing the beauty of Nefertiti
Excelling her kindness and hospitality

• through the Nile her eyes so blue
Glittering along the beads of morning dew
From the kingdom of ancient Egypt
An angelic pharaoh slipped

• And it happened to be you
A pharaoh girl that no one knew
Among all those in sarcophagus that sleep
Time failed and one pharaoh did seep

• Among all those that left jewels in pyramids
Within the deserts amid
One had left riches inside me
And that pharaoh girl happened to be thee

• Of the pharaoh’s land I came across you
Jumping among reeds and reading papyrus too
King Tut didn’t knew about you
But you became close to my heart so true



Yunus Emre is my favorite
and I quote him
"Your love has wrested me away from me,
You're the one I need, you're the one I crave.
Day and night I burn, gripped by agony,
You're the one I need, you're the one I crave.

I find no great joy in being alive,
If I cease to exist, I would not grieve,
The only solace I have is your love,
You're the one I need, you're the one I crave.

Lovers yearn for you, but your love slays them,
At the bottom of the sea it lays them,
It has God's images-it displays them;
You're the one I need, you're the one I crave.

Let me drink the wine of love sip by sip,
Like Mecnun, live in the hills in hardship,
Day and night, care for you holds me in its grip,
You're the one I need, you're the one I crave.

Even if, at the end, they make me die
And scatter my ashes up to the shy,
My pit would break into this outcry:
You're the one I need, you're the one I crave.

"Yunus Emre the mystic" is my name,
Each passing day fans and rouses my flame,
What I desire in both worlds in the same:
You're the one I need, you're the one I crave."


  Yunus Emre