1. Listen to the speech of my brother Abu Yahya
Who sincerely expresses his affection for you in secret and openly

2. What wrong or blemish has he done
That the claws of the one called Beaked should strike him

3. I mean the son of her whose pupil was ruptured in the womb
So miserable for folk who are not free

4. She whored for a time, then when she aged
She led every pimp and wine-seller

5. She directed the son of vile parents towards him
A mother cloaked in humiliation and shame

6. I know no emptiness in her womb except
Birds in a cave could settle in

7. The shameless whore befriends the sinful
And cares not for the wrath of the Creator

8. A dinar to a lustful vagrant is more pleasing
To her heart than a thousand dinars

9. Behind her a hideous, restless daughter
More burning in her sting than embers of fire

10. O you whose eye has seen the deformed whore
Fornicating behind her without objection

11. She came with a shameless, cold, harmful bastard
Of an unclean birth without purification

12. The loins of porters do not shy with their gaze
From indecency, even if skewered with a nail

13. How can degraded filth have dignity or shame
Or heed rebuke and warning

14. If her identity were revealed
She would only be fit for abomination or playing the flute

15. Every day you see a man above her
Lashing her repeatedly without tiring

16. A hide that if you struck its backside
Its snout would bend without tiring

17. With a wide nostril, daily soliciting
Pleasure, thousands of scrolls circulating

18. I jested with him, ignorant of his vileness,
In verses praising in eloquent poetry

19. But he showed ignorance and faced me
With evil, not befitting his worth

20. If Ubaydullah knew the extent
Of my status, he would fear my outcry and claws

21. O son of her who farted from beneath her skirt
The braying fart of a donkey's gallbladder

22. A rare joke, a monkey overstepping
Without appreciating the fierce lion

23. Indeed, the experienced Ismael told me
Yes, and counseled me with honest news

24. That in your constitution is coarse, harsh poetry
Severing loins without claws

25. When its insides are penetrated by your coarseness
Every measure is increased

26. Abu Yahya, you were watered with rain but not
The lands of your rivals by the flowing spring

27. Verses have come to me from you that delighted me
In beauty, occupying my thoughts for ages

28. And in them, a reproach that denied my sleep and burdened me
With worries in tending the rising star

29. Who do I have like you in manners and propriety
And preserving the love of a free brother and preferring him

30. You have taken the place of my soul in my body
Becoming a companion for me without evening entertainment

31. Indeed, Ghassan ibn Abi Mansur betrayed me
With enmity while you are among my supporters

32. I will string rhymes about his vices
Like stringing the anklets of a perfumed lazy walker

33. Until I leave him as meat on a carving table
The blades of butchers slash his throat

34. Or he returns to apologizing, and I will leave him
Because he is a wretch from the family of little girls