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

The Purity of the Rose

 

Penetrate the heart of the rose, my fingers...

And do not fear the painful scratch of the thorns

And their bloody mark,

And choose for my beloved a bud

That no eye has gazed upon,

And no bee has tasted.

For the purity of the rose 

Sometimes rivals its fragrance!

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