THE AMBASSADORS

REFLECTIONS 

Volume 1, Issues 2
September 1998

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 nine excellent publications to her name, and she obtained her M.A. in the field of literary linguistics from the faculty of languages at Ain Shams University, while holding the position of Assistant Lecturer at Sadat Academy in Cairo, Egypt.

The Ambassadors previously published one of Ms. El-Banna's poems in issues 1&2 entitled "Instead of an emotion landing, I took off." To view go to ARCHIVES

Pollution

What is it, nobody knows
Where is it, no one can tell
An epidemic, a rash, or a ...what!?

It's getting at a lot of souls
Spreading like poison in blood
Falling like acids from rain

It's destroying all the good
Torturing the purity in man
Ending all hopes for future

An alien body; fighting the love inside

fighting the love ouside,

fighting love everywhere

substituting it with another

Forcing hate to get hold of
Forcing grudge to control
Forcing pollution on him; yes man

Now man has become so much polluted and deformed;
Polluted in thought with ideas

that are so destructive and unjust

Polluted in body with a physical waste

that's indeed disgusting

Polluted in manner with a behaviour

that's far from decent and manly

Polluted in talk with a diction

that's so demenial

Polluted in sight with all the input

that's obscene

Polluted in attitude with an obduracy

that's intolerable.

We need to turn off all these polluted bodies

and search for others healthy or purified

Man needs to be strong
Man deserves to be happy and ecstatic
Man has every right to love with pride and dignity
Man is to be rewarded the most beautiful roses
Man was and is honoured by the Most Generous, by his Creator
Man definitely deserves the best
Why then 'man' do you accept what's less?

Hala M. El-Banna

Email: ambassadors@sprint.ca

The Ambassadors Homepage