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

The Blue Sea


Yesterday,

You were here, my beloved,

What has taken you away from me,

You who are the light for my wandering eyes?

Tell me...

Is there another horizon beyond the horizon?

And the blue sea,

Has it been invaded by ships of flowers?

And have the ducks of this season

floated upon its surface?

My blindness has made me very curious,

So, forgive me.

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