Rural Poems is one of Charbel Baini's books translated from Arabic into English

A Rainy Day


Today...

The sky poured down more than it should,

That's why you see me huddled near the fire,

Delighting my ears with its musical murmur,

Like the rustling of the wind 

Coming from behind the distant peaks,

And the whispering of the trees scatters in the air,

With its moaning, 

It wounds and bleeds the body of the rain.

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