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PWB Peeps Open Thread: Poetry of Saloomey [1]

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Date: 2023-04-14  

My Lebanon

by Edna K. Saloomey (no dates given and Wikipedia doesn’t even know she exists)

I dream of Lebanon by an azure sea;

Wave-kissed shores, and rocky glades;

Snowcaps on mountains, glistening gorgeously;

O sweet-scented pines’ serenades.

I see a land laden with fruits of the earth;

A tropical jewel ablaze

With myriad flowers and wee children’s mirth.

Rainbow sunsets prolong their days.

Purple dusk is tinted by a lustrous moon

And broidered with a million stars.

For lullabies—the sea plays a crooning tune

Of golden notes on silv’ry bars.

Blessed of Christ, O, Lebanon, my paeans

Echo the lyrics of sages.

Thy beauty is lovelier than gossamer dreams.

Thy glory shall crown all ages.

This poem is in the public domain. Published in Poem-a-Day on April 8, 2023, by the Academy of American Poets.

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