1. The horizon's coquettishness is a dazzling whiteness
My body shed its skin months ago

2. Woe to the biting, stinging frost when
People fall silent before it, stunned

3. The hair on our bodies stood on end
With blueness - oh the woe of it - bent

4. As if I were a furnace poker
They said the frost dough in the ground - mashed

5. How much does the frost spit on a beard
And how much does thunder say in the face - Hush!

6. How the horizons knot the knot of cowl
Of it and how it scatters the sprinkling of crumbs

7. How much it foretold snow when it came
Like a discarded stone before petrification

8. How much the trace of fire when it grazes
The snow, its water flowing before melting

9. The flea in the water tried
To tell the courses of its dripping - it burst

10. Neither was that dripping from it, nor
Did it repeat in its days the word 'drip'

11. How many nights whitened with snow and how much
Ink of its wings after being soaked

12. The celestial bodies above us clinked with it
And around the horizons from us it slid

13. And it passed violently in our ears
As if it were plucking twigs from them

14. I have no power with the door of snow
And its fear of my liver has taken root

15. So protect me from it with incantations
Or cense me with pebbles and potash

16. When will I see rain's mercy
That dispels what disintegrated from the base

17. When will I see the pocket of clouds burst open
And the chicks take fright in it - hatched

18. Those who take refuge today from Hatem
As if he were ravenous among them - inhaled

19. They huddled in the house in fear of it
So the house or its arranger is a bird trap

20. They returned with Ahmed's blessing, so they took
From it to repel the snow, easy customs

21. The one with the lofty pen, alive or sublime
Oh what a branch he lowered or towered!

22. And he spent generously but for
His servant did not yield from its abundance

23. So where from Egypt will he who
Opposed its east a dress of fringe, mew?

24. Whence for the first people who undermined
Your boiling mind like a relaxed bow

25. This one has power over the people
And yet the sheikh Adi is just a sheikh