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

A Spring Cloud

 

O child, inoculated against sorrow,

Emerging from the laughter of the valleys

And the whispers of the streams,

Lend me a lock of your silken hair

To swing the butterflies,

And tease the wheat stalks.

Give it to me...

So, I may send it soaring on the wind, 

A spring cloud,

Its dazzling white colour

Rivalling the patches of snow resting peacefully

On the rocks of our (Qurnat as Sawda).

Your tenderness...

Encourages me to ask for more,

So won't you show me some compassion?!

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