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A Poem A Day by Romilly Wilde

366 poems day-by-day for a leap year

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      “Homesick in London” Ahdaf Soueif, Egypt (1950-)

      May 17, 2026

      Rain streaks the glass —

      it is not Cairo’s sun.

      I drink tea,

      but it tastes of absence.

      I am always walking home,

      but the road bends away.

      From A Poem A Day: Middle East & North Africa

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