1. My bride wished for divorce
And asked me for separation after calm

2. She stood to show you in the morning of departure
Slender shins, thighs and legs

3. With dangling bracelets that widen
With a flower or bangle

4. Sweet to taste like ripe fruits
Upon which spring poured its bounty

5. She asked about my longing - did you find
Kabus on your trip to Iraq?

6. I said I met the heroes
Setting out on Thursday hastened

7. Driving the steeds to enemy land
The horses kicking up motes of dust

8. Litters put aside for the companions
The maidens lead the maidens

9. Treading heavily like gazelles
Leaving no young in the valley unstartled

10. I greeted him when I saw the crowds
Press to swear him allegiance on the right

11. Shoulder bones and arms
Scattering the horses in separation

12. God said to him “Give and grant”
And glory sold to him freely

13. No lion from the lions of the den
Embraces seekers more boldly than he

14. No one more daring in resolve
Or quicker to loyalty and friendship

15. The sea with its great waves
Is not more generous with wealth

16. My friend, see how the lightning did not wink
Its flickers flashing and meeting

17. Lighting up a beloved near, its rain pouring
Maintaining surges and spreading surges

18. Watering the plains, hooves pawing
Kicking up above the meadow kicked up dust

19. When he descended from his foal
And touched earth’s fine motes

20. The breeze greeted him and the south wind caressed him
Shaking the dust off him in layers

21. He cast his forelock on his shoulder
As if it were a companion on his arm

22. Bending his neck to his cheek
Like a Phoenix chick greeting with opened beak

23. For three nights and their days
Water streamed from him pouring

24. He tossed his tail in its meadows
Lifting what its dust had lowered

25. I watered my mount Tayyi’ with it
And did not water Damascus or Iraq with it

26. Rather, I watered a town
Whose minaret rivals ours in height

27. They did not expect us to be a people
Who roamed far and controlled the lead

28. We break the nose of the arrogant
If the spindly one frowns in the hallway

29. We claimed through scowling noses
The protected domain of the lion with defiance

30. We raided them with blades in a raid
That gave them from death a bitter cup to drink

31. After it the sons of Asad
Walk with limps like lightning’s zigzag