Oasis
(Marrakesh)
All these proud palm-trees,
a thousand and one, now bow
before your beauty.
*
A road of roses,
an avenue fit for a king –
just right for you.
*
Desert dust reaches
for your ankles of marble,
envied by my hands.
*
Christina Egan © 2016
This is actually a set of winter poems: Morocco in midwinter is like northern Europe in midsummer! Marrakesh welcomes you with warm sunshine, thousands of palm-trees and tens of thousands of roses in all colours… Around the city, wherever the ancient irrigation system does not reach, the land stretches dry and dusty.
Photograph: Orange-trees and rose-trees within the rose-coloured walls of Marrakesh. Christina Egan © 2012
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