A love song to Australia is one of Charbel Baini's books translated by Paul Abdul Ahad

ORANGE

 -1-

Your cherries

Are the Blue Mountains' earrings

Opposing the wind

Embellish with them

Strut

Bell with a stunning look

O, Orange

Your morning is a song in memory

Your evening is a praise

Spin me your prairies a scarf

Offer me your staunch rock

To pick the kohl off the hills

And smear a line on your eyes

-2-

Your gardens are a bunch of colours

Spreading Lebanon in front of me

Take me back to my childhood

To a village with coral houses

Flying birds around me

Melodies danced on its sound

O, Orange

Your name is a great name

Riddles in riddle

!To solve it

I tried hard

Only He, the Lord, can solve

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