1. Dust lies between me and my thanks to Shukri
Now that his death has brought the greatest calamity

2. Shukri died, so gather no more around Shukri
After this, his friends and companions

3. Shukri died, so if you leave him today
For something from which no response has come

4. Shukri died, so Shukri has nothing on earth
As was his coming and going

5. Shukri was dragged from among his family and friends
By a disease which overpowered him

6. His last farewell came before he left
Like a shooting star falling in daylight

7. Pens wept for him, broken
Morals and literature wept for him

8. I see no clarity in the air of life
Mist covers his beautiful face

9. News of his death came suddenly, so my
Nerves burst in my body

10. It was as if lightning had struck me there
Or a sword had torn me to pieces

11. I drink tears from my flames
Until the blaze leaves me

12. From the air of my soul, worries approach
When I remember him, and do not diminish

13. I have wasted no part of my life with him
And a friend without fault has grown scarce

14. There are no people on earth who lived virtuously and died
Like people on earth who died and became virtuous

15. Do you see one who surpassed the prayer niche early
Like the tardy one who misses the prayer niche

16. He was indeed a gifted writer
And a frank literary man who did not fear

17. Taking the new as his religion in poetry
While never doubting what he believed

18. How much evidence he has in supporting the new
In poetry, more striking than swords

19. Dawn struck night and night passed
With a sword that split its darkness

20. Poetry in Iraq has an ear
Tall, even if ears are cut off

21. And if poetry is not practiced by gifted people
There would be no revolution in it

22. This life is like a loud river
Roaring on its path

23. And when it meets the sea one day
It is neither left abandoned nor foaming

24. It is as if time is a stormy sea
And man on it is like floating froth

25. And the secret of time will remain hidden
From mankind, truly veiled

26. It has causes that ward off death
And when they are disrupted, the causes kill

27. Nature is but a journey
Whose title perplexes reason

28. Do not trust the foam that overflows gushing
For when the sea recedes, the foam recedes

29. In life there is nothing I swim without worry
Except that it is fleeting

30. After life, there is nothing but desolation
After civilization, nothing but ruins

31. The earth is nothing but a graveyard
People emerged from it and in it they disappeared

32. Old age meets death
Those who died in it were replaced by the youth

33. I do not know, when fate decides our end
Whether we will wear the rags of misery or blame

34. Do you see it as a newborn we argued with
Upon which death is destined

35. Or do you see it flying from death over us
Like flocks behind flocks?

36. In its release, it has airplanes
With vast roads in this open space