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

The Blossom of Femininity


...And when you adorned yourself 

With the blossom of femininity,

My garden clung to the hem of your dress

And became fragrant!

O you who draw your face on my pages,

Who swim in the sea of my longing,

Who rise like a dream from my long sleeplessness.

At your doors, my waiting is sweet.

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