Qadesha Valley | anne frandi-coory

Goodbye Bcharré

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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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**Read the rest of my poem in DRAGONS, DESERTS and DREAMS

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Dedicated to my Lebanese grandparents

Jacob Habib El Khouri Eleishah Fahkrey and Eva Arida Fahkrey

**Read more about my poems and short stories …