Gamila El Alaily Poetry

Love and Romance Poetry

Love of the Impossible Reproach To the Forgetful I Adore You Do You Remember? I Complain to My God Love A Nights Dream From Beyond the Telephone Believe Me O My Heart Confession A Talk With You Rejoice, O World Morning Sun Rose Lost in Nights O Singer, We Heard Tears Dried, Beloved This Beautiful World Wanderer of Valleys Kiss Youth, Heart Take My Heart Shatter, O Heart My Love, Where Beloved Heart, Come O Artist, Come You Drag My Heart Beloved, If Absent Pain Befriends Solitude Realm of Dreams Appearing Soon Soaring Spirits Resonance I Send Farewell, Ascetic World Garden of Flowers Open Your Eyes To the Noble Ideal Autumn and Spring Woman and Man My Beloved, My Hope Sing, O Bird

Contemplative Poetry

Confusion The Prisoner Beautiful Dream Echoes of my Breath Moon Greeting Life Cries Hope Grant Me An Artist Wish The Roaming Bird A Passing Reflection The Thirsty Soul The Enchanter The Wandering One O Nightingale Where To? Despair and Hope Reflections of Solitude O Heart To the Artist Echo of My Dreams I Wish From Beyond the Graves Who Am I? Between Despair and Hope From Beyond the Phantoms Adam O Seller of Patience Inspired by Mahatma Gandhi A Poetic Crime The Captive Maiden Whispers of the Soul The Cup Divination An Artists Wish My Solitude Breaths of Solitude My Testament The Parched Soul To Where?

Patriotic Poetry

A Salute to Farouk Salute to the Peace Conference To President Sadat Inspired by Unity To the Fighter The Martyr Inspired by the Battle To King Faisal To Jaafar Nimeiri Echo of the Foreign Tour Echo of the Tripartite Aggression Pioneer of the Free Voice of Egypt Egypt Spy of Zion To the Transformer I Said, Honor Her Genius That Soars

Social Poetry

To My Mother My Mother O My Mother Greetings, O My Mother Her Birthday My Mother, Arise Breath Returned Echo of Her Anguish Mothers Day Remembrance To My Mothers Soul When the Crescent Rose The Infant When He Spoke Carefree Childhood I Fear for You A Mothers Counsel A Mothers Forbearance After His Return Do You Hear Me, My Son? If Only You Knew Our Birthday Words of Reproach Between Doubt and Certainty The Captivating Prose Poem My Absent Brother Reproach to the Absent World of Delusions Companion of Youth After Youth To the Maiden Virgin The Most Loyal of the Loyal Why Love the Poet Alas, Bitter Day Rise, O Sun Al-Ahdaf Showed Us Haifa Sings Softly To the Saint Artist I Said, Harsh I Cast Rejection Enchantress and Killer Torch to Bearer

Complaint Poetry

The Wretched Beauty The Lamenting Bird A Hearts Groan Sorrow The Convalescent Echo of Solitude

Nature Poetry

Spring On the Shores of Aswan Birds of Spring With the Dawn O Night The Moon Springtide Inspiration of the Sea Circumambulation Reflection of a Phantom The Countryside Aswan, Bride of Upper Egypt The Free Bird Purest Love The Canary Bird The Divorcee Birds of Autumn The Canary The Singer I and the Sea From Mansoura, Bride of the Nile, to the Dam The Shepherdess

Spiritual Poetry

Between Me and God O Lord My Devotion A Wish Whispers of a Worshipper Between Me and God Ask Me Certainty’s Sentiments Grant Me A Strange Heart God, My Healer With God Were It Not for My Devotion A Call Supplication Echo of My Love I Love None But Him A Colloquy My Physician Private Supplication O Cupbearer of the Soul Mighty Works Concealed Soul Wakes to Light Howling in Our Ears Her Speech Is Magic There I Saw Yesterday Bloom After Withering Love the Poor Shepherd O Singer of Hearts The Shepherd Replies I Live As I Please Here My Wedding Lives All in It Lawful If I Came, Lord Work Mirrors the World Is Love Without Harm Heart's Dweller, Gentle Hope Appeared to Me Work Is Struggle Tell the Frivolous They Knew, Explained Opener of My Heart If You Wish, Friend Try to Understand Me I Saw You Gifted These Lands, Rejoice I Never Forget Meeting Waves Rose and Leaned God Inspired Your Love Give Me Appointment My Wish in Heart Beauty and Grace Joined Seller or Buyer Lover, Is Love Shame He Died Unheeding Life All They Hope Lord, You Pacify Me Had They Taught Me I Prostrated Humbly Tell Me, Maiden Once No Gazelle Captured Does Love Surround Us Enough, O Gazelle Sailors Find Rest Phantom I Kissed Word of God What My Soul Poured

Life & Timeline

From her youth to later life

Her Literary Works

From poetry to novels

Literary Salon

The weekly meetings with contemporaries

Gamila's Library

The vast collection of books

El Ahdaf Magazine

The monthly publication that spanned decades