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

PORT MACQUARIE

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Port Macquarie

Port Macquarie

I'm afraid of you spreading my secrets

How many kisses I flew to her

How I offered her my flowers

The sea is girdling it all around

My heart is drowning

And I don't know

I feel that its sea is jealous of me

I feel that its beach had collected my stories

Its sand is becoming a life coal

Its wave is running off my fire

I've fallen in with it

And my blood is boiling

Because my flow is sweeping me away

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Port Macquarie is a city

But I'm confused

?How did I love it

?How did it love me

?How did it steel my poems

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