CAIRO: "The Egyptian January 25 Revolution pushed me to write poetry about the cotemporary scene," said Egyptian contemporary poet Ahmed Abdel Muti Hijazi. There is no doubt 20 years is a very long time to collect poetry, Hijazi said during a symposium discussing his poem collection called the ‘Debris of Time.' He noted the Egyptian revolution pushed him to write poetry again but he prefers poetry that he doesn't force out of him but comes naturally. No one can avoid the charm of poetry when it was natural for him to write. Poetry is like love but can also be harsh and inevitable as death, he said. Hejazi is writing a new poem but stopped to read political books for research and to not make a mistake while writing his poem, since he is not a specialist in law or politics. The critics understood his collection culturally; they said it imposes its opinions upon the reader. The collection consists of poetry about lament. The poems also tackles the Egyptian January 25 Revolution and the tyrants, the former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, and covers the different pasts, the present, and the future, where towns and cities are without hearts and passion is lost along with the mind and thought. The poetry brings together time and places, and so is called, the ‘Debris of Time.'
