When spring comes to the Sahara
Ifrit in spirals fly through the sky
Nothing can be seen, when gritty sand flys
Dimming the sun itself …
When did the devils reach Europe
Ignoring the traditions of time
Now will we too have the Khamseen,
Driving us into our homes?
Wandering from it’s ancient home
Insistently blowing for days
Northern lands rocked by it’s might
Desert breeze visits our land.
Inspired by the acrostic about rain written by julesgemstonepages I wrote about our wind which has been blowing since Friday.
Bastet and Sekhmet's Library 
I love how it slowly goes north, like the wind is just passing through and it has somewhere it wants to go 🙂
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Glad you enjoyed…this morning it was still blowing, and had brought in rain clouds too!
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And these clouds cast an ominous shadow :p
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But that’s all they did…the wind is still at it today!
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What an honor to inspire you. I have put a link to your piece on my post. I hope you get some visits too 🙂
Now I will have to go and look up your names for wind! Even in here there are several names for wind…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_local_winds – there are much more than I realized!
Thank you for teaching me something new today too. ~Jules
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I’m honored for the link. The whirlygig like funnels of wind are often called sand devils so that’s where ifrit came from. Thanks for linking the list of winds from the Wikipedia!
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Oh, the Khamseen! We learned about it in secondary school ages and ages ago. That’s a lovely poem, Georgia. Here from Jules’! 🙂
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🙂 I learnt about it when I lived in Ethiopia and it accompanied my springs for years living in North and North-East Africa. 🙂 And a “cin-cin” to Jules!
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