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Rosemary
Romarin - إكليل الجبل
Description
Rosemary is an aromatic Mediterranean shrub appreciated for its evergreen foliage and enchanting fragrance. Its small, dark green, needle-like leaves give off a pleasant scent when crumpled. In summer and spring its purplish-blue flowers attract bees and other pollinators. Easy to grow, it is drought-resistant and prefers well-drained soil.
Used in cooking, it flavors many dishes, but it also has medicinal properties, particularly as a digestive aid.
In ancient times, rosemary was a symbol of fidelity.
In Lebanon, it is known as the ‘crown of the mountain.’ It is used in cooking and as a natural air purifier.
There are two types of rosemary in the garden: climbers and ground covers. The latter are planted along the borders and in the nursery.
Poem
Summer Concerto
The heat throbs like a tam-tam drum
Pounding our eardrums with its fury;
The sun at noon blazes through the trellis
Sizzling like a hot oven.
The clammy afternoon is unbearable.
Mountains of white gold seem to be melting.
The air crackles between the heavy sky
While the sweaty soil tries to put itself to sleep.
When evening comes, the stifling heat
Suffocates the leaves and flowers,
That release feverish, delirious scents
Then comes the breeze, with a hint of the sea
Gently rocking the rosemary,
The cool air lets the garden breathe again.
Published in La Petite Cosmogonie Sentimentale. Collections “Poetic works” Volume 6, Éditions de le Revue Phénicienne, 2004.
The Good Seed
The Good Seed
A seed withers away from the stingy ground where it lies,
Stuck between the frigid walls of a dreary tower bloc
It seeks to escape its prison,
And reach for the providential air…
But beneath the long shaft of shadow where fate has placed it,
In a cramped pot, hidden from the glorious day,
How can she live up to seize
The vital rays?
Then, across thirty leagues, a whirlwind
Sweeps beyond the horizon of blue altitudes,
The godly wind delivers it from its prison!
A fertile land welcomes the emigrant;
And from the sun and unfettered love buds a rose,
Filled with butterflies!…
Published in La Montagne Parfumée. Éditions de le Revue Phénicienne, 2004.
