1. Poetry is the poet's war spoils
Each person contains as much as his vitality allows

2. Hence the breadth of ample means in his coins
And hence the tightness of scarcity in his carats

3. And a person's thoughts are what occurred in either
His ascendance where he proceeds or decline

4. So a lad whose anus oozes with pus from his pains
And a lad whose clothes emit musk from his wraps

5. And I see the son of Saqati versified his poetry
From what his father selected from his rags

6. And when Abu Ju'ran comes with his poetry
From his camel hide, excuse him for his excess

7. Descriptions of your glory are a bouquet by which
He has thus turned away from his mat

8. Look to Awad and the meaning of his name
And use your intellect, you will know him

9. And whenever he recites his poetry
Write it with a ta and make errors in it