Goodbye Bcharré
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Poem and Painting Goodbye Bcharré
Copyright To Anne Frandi-Coory All Rights reserved 19 April 2016
Painting 500cm x 410cm Acrylic on canvas
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There we stood above Bcharré the land of our fathers
in the shadow of a magnificent tree of kings, scarred and riven
beyond which stretched the Qadesha Valley deep below
beckoning, engulfing all with its lonely mists of woe
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Long have blood thirsty invaders stormed poor Lebanon
fortifications of rocky cliffs and great King Cedrus Libani
his powerful roots hidden in caves and rocky outcrops
once protected animal and peasant alike, for millennia
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Phoenicians and Romans, to name warriors but a few
decimated Lebanon’s cedars for agile fighters’ garrisons
mighty, heavenly temples, fleets of foreboding ships
their planks they withstood thousands of salty tides
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Dedicated to my Lebanese grandparents
Jacob Habib El Khouri Eleishah Fahkrey and Eva Arida Fahkrey
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