1. Despite death's defiance, your memory endures
Your poems still resonate, echoing through the ages

2. You were eulogized in verse, so poets lamented
With finest poetry, wailing in grief over you

3. And knowledge overflowed, so its sources surged
You examined it closely, and its springs gushed

4. A philosophy you illuminated in verse
Now bereft of its beauty, finding none who chant

5. I swore an oath not tainted by pretense
My heart bears witness to what my tongue avows

6. You were Iraq’s pride and its finest ornament
Balancing its literary circles and schools

7. Iraq’s fertile soil bore you as witness
Whenever we lacked glories, you showed the way

8. Your nature was the gentlest and most refined
Your gatherings, the most charming that convened

9. You revived poetry after its dormancy
Since you, poetic endeavor has been bleak

10. A scholar rests today in this grave
Probing its secrets with his intellect

11. His faith was anchored in truthful knowledge
No friend to superstitions' specters, driving them away

12. Pure in thought and creed, steadfast
In his rejection of corrupt doctrines

13. He affirmed religion as love and mercy
Justice – no doubt God is One

14. Whoever exploited faith covetously
Was to God a denier, an ingrate

15. Today a poet rests in this grave
Protesting injustice, championing justice and right

16. Old age had cast its shadow on the world
And still he defended his views, battling staunchly

17. O father of poetry! Herein lies its domain
For listeners are present, and throngs gather

18. Seeking a leader, o tribes of science and verse
Will you be that brilliant, consummate leader?

19. Where is the unmatched poem you crafted?
Where are those exquisite, splendid verses?

20. Where are those charming, fetching notions
Like gardens watered with dew, ever flourishing?

21. Where are those shimmering eyes, so pure
Whims appearing, disappearing over them?

22. Jamil enriched the Two Rivers with a third:
His poetry, nourished by overflowing seas

23. Bringing life to souls, a mercy
To succor those yearning souls

24. It yielded to him, like
Brides adorned in their beauty, shining

25. I say to poets seeking one to rouse them:
Let these verses kindle and spur you!

26. Come to Zahawi's grave, there we will seize
A breath of his soul, pursue it, and grasp it!

27. Though only stillness fills verse with trepidation
Tranquility cloaks Zahawi's grave, prevailing

28. Make pilgrimage to a home, Art itself
Venus and Mercury illuminated its courtyard

29. For the homes of poets are sanctuaries
And the graves of the eminent, hallowed shrines

30. O father of poetry and awakening thought!
A beloved nation grieves you are now at rest

31. That he who shook resolute souls
Now lies still, wrapped in soil, inanimate

32. That a heart radiating light and strength
Is now darkened, its flanks unmoving, cold

33. Are you content with the life you knew
In practice? Or are you angry, raging?

34. They lost you in life, and sought you out only in death
But this is a glory you adamantly spurned