1. Your fourth question went astray
Solace drew near or went awry

2. A drawing, some of it erased
And some left unerased

3. Elucidating the dots of tha’
Not dots but marks

4. And curves as if a crescent
Fell down upon the ground

5. Disheveled covering the plaits
Of hair with curling locks

6. If passion raved, patience
More fitting to act equally mad

7. The clutch of fate won't be denied
From my rein, though it extended

8. If time errs, time's not
To be trusted when erring

9. It never stopped substituting
Me something prized for precious

10. As youth, as if it
Was an untied rein

11. And lowly life makes me
Content with moderate living

12. I enjoy frivolity when
Its abode from me departs

13. Exultant it takes me flying
Through open space, confused

14. Imagining it stretched
Out importantly, though not stretched out

15. Its sky a ruby
Its earth mere wood

16. If it comes say lofty
If gone say fallen

17. A night as if dawn tied
To its edges with ropes

18. When will I ever encompass
Knowledge of it, as if never encompassed

19. From its rainy clouds pours
An abundance without store

20. As if it growls with
Its rein when descending

21. As if it splashes the shore
When splashing

22. And my companion is decisive
If you call it fairness, precise

23. As if a comet's trail
Ripping through the sky

24. As if a book dotted
Was translated for me in it

25. I rise with it while the earth
Swells with hordes of jinn

26. As if the palm faded
Of henna and peeled

27. Where the winds in the land
Have place and goal

28. Adorned with reddish dye
Like dyeing of cloth

29. Embroidered by a thread
Of fire where it embroidered

30. So it ripped while its
Youth was that rip

31. As if it had eyebrows
In its betrayal, kept wiping

32. Jagged are its coasts
By serpents' trails jagged

33. Hear in its regions
The birds' prattle and racket

34. As if among it are hamlets
Where al-Nabat reside

35. When the north arises
Arrogantly to a shore, it shreds

36. You'd think its inner depths
The waves thrash, but waves thresh

37. Whatever clad woman
In shirt and garb unsewn

38. As if they glow
From ivory oil well-rubbed

39. I strive toward it while my hand
Holds a Murth wood staff

40. Best of cups if never
Attributed a folk one day

41. Onto it I hurl from a perfumed
[waterskin] while the strap's twisted

42. My soul where'er you point it
Already went and landed

43. Like an arrow, nay swifter
Than arrow when archer intentional

44. As if seeking a debt
From adversary who refused

45. As if its talon
For the ear of birds, circled

46. I lead along connected, granted
Tied up tents, by fibers knit

47. Assigned to roll them up
And fold like outspread mats

48. As if they are wickerwork
Interwoven with ivory strips

49. As if their ears are lilies
Never plucked once

50. As if their eyelids
Protect from ember sparks

51. Laughing, though they laugh
Only when lines cross

52. I asked for every granted thing
At the bedouins' camps with no conditions set

53. As if when it exerts itself
It digs them into the ground aggressively

54. As if its light hair
On the side of its head is a comb

55. It strings them on its thread
As if stringing of beads

56. Our kettle is ever
Lifted then settled

57. As if the sound of its boiling
Is the babble of a crazed person babbling

58. Yes, for a companion
Of splendor and decorousness

59. Mother of my bliss when
Time gathered and tied

60. Smiling, its udder
Of plentiful bounty sucked

61. They are the bosom of terror when
Terror departs from the bosom

62. Deed is a flower to pluck
Word is a pearl to pick up

63. Bestowed on them a share of
The lofty inheritance none bestowed