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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE PALM TREE, by ABD-AR RAHMAN I
First Line: In the midst of my garden
Last Line: Never forsake you.
Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Palm Trees
First Line: In the midst of my garden
Last Line: Never forsake you.
Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Palm Trees
IN the midst of my garden
Grows a palm-tree;
Born in the West,
Away from the country of palm-trees.
I cried: You are like me,
For you resemble me
In wandering and peregrination,
And the long separation from kith and kin.
You also
Grew up on a foreign soil;
Like me,
You are far from the country of your birth.
May the fertilizing clouds of morning
Water you in exile,
May the beneficent rains besought by the poor
Never forsake you.
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