1. أنابيب من القند

    على لاطباق مبيضه

    Tubes of sugar candy,

    white upon the platters.

  2. كأن الجام كف وهي

    أطراف لها بضه

    As though the bowl were a hand, and they

    were its plump fingertips.

  3. حكت أعمدة صيغت

    من الثلج أو الفضه

    They resembled pillars fashioned

    from snow or silver.

  4. حكت شهبا غدت في

    في ذلك المجلس منقضه

    They resembled shooting stars that were, in—

    in that gathering—plunging down.

  5. شفاء الشارب الظمآن

    من أطرافها عضه

    The thirsty drinker's cure

    is a bite from their tips.