يا دارُ أَقوَت بَعدَ أَصرامِها
عاماً وَما يُبكيكَ مِن عامِها
O house that was inhabited after its desolation
A year has passed and what makes you cry of its years
هَل غَيرُ دارٍ بَكَرَت ريحُها
تَستَنُّ في جائِلِ رَمرامِها
Has the wind made any house virgin but yours
That hopes in the darkness of its ruin?
فيها لِوِلدانِ الصِبا مَلعَبٌ
كَأَنَّما آثارُ أَقدامِها
In it is a playground for the boys of youth
As if the traces of their feet
صَحيفَةٌ رَقَّشَها كاتِبٌ
لَم يَتَقادَم عَهدُ أَقلامِها
A parchment a writer has dotted
The era of its pens has no antiquity
قِف صاحِبي أَقضِ بِها لَوعَةً
عَناني بَعضُ أَسقامِها
Stop, my friend, and let it ease your worries
Some of its illnesses have bothered me
أَستَخفِها إِذ نَحنُ فيها مَعاً
عَن بَعضِ أَيّامي وَأَيّامِها
Take it lightly as long as we are together in it
Away from some of my days and its days
بَحرِيَّةٌ إِن نَطَقَت دُميَةٌ
أَو أَفصَحَت مِن بَعدِ إِعجامِها
It is a sea if a statue talked from it
Or was eloquent after being incomprehensible
عَيناكَ غَربا شَنَّةٍ أَرسَلَت
أَوراقَها مِن كَينِ أَخصامِها
Your two eyes have sent western winds
Whose leaves come out of the sheaths of opponents
أَفضى بِها الراوي إِلى خَبرَةٍ
فَاِبتَدَرَت أَفواهُ أَهزامِها
The narrator has led to experience through it
So its mouths have silenced defeats
إِذ نَشَأَت غَيرَ فَتى مالِكٍ
لِنِيَّةٍ شالَت بِأَجذامِها
As it was born unlike a knight of Maalik
With a determination that carried its corpses
كَأَنَّها لَمّا اِحزَأَلَّت ضُحىً
وَأَنجَدَت مِن بَعدِ إِتهامِها
As if when it cleared in the morning
And was rescued after accusation
نَخلُ القُرى شالَت مَراجيحُهُ
بِالوِقرِ فَاِنزالَت بِأَكمامِها
The palms of homeland folded their swings
With burden, so they lowered their sleeves
لَقَّحَها الأَبّارُ فَاِستَوسَقَت
قِنوانُها مِن قَبلِ إِتمامِها
The clouds pollinated it, so its cans
Sought rain before being completed
تَظَلُّ بِالأَكمامِ مَحفوفَةً
تَرمُقُها أَعيُنُ جُرّامِها
It remains covered with sleeves
Eyes of oppressors watch it
أَضحَت قَلوصي بَعدَ إِهمالِها
في جُزأَةِ الذَبلِ وَتَسوامِها
It has become barren after neglecting it
In the gown of dryness and its evils
أَزرى بِها وِردُ مِياةِ الفَلا
عافي مَطاميها وَأَسدامِها
The roses of Miyah Falah have harmed it
Its shelters and lion dens
يَدمى أَظَلّاها وَقَد أَخلَقَت
مِنها شَريجاً بَعدَ إِجذامِها
Its shade bleeds though it has created
An orchard from it after mutilation
إِلَيكَ يا اِبنَ القَرمِ أَطوي بِها
مَجهولَ أَرضٍ بَعدَ أَعلامِها
To you O Ibn al-Qaram I fold with it
An unknown land after its flags
حَتّى اِنطَوَت طِيَّ رِداءِ الفَتى
وَاِستَبدَلَت ضُمراً بِإِجمامِها
Until the youth's cloak shrank
And it substituted concealment for tying
تَؤُمُّ مِن قَحطانَ أَنقى فَتىً
مِن عارِها قِدماً وَمِن ذامِها
It aspires to the purest youth of Qahtan
From its nakedness, step, and blemish
فَرعاً نَماهُ مِن عَرانينِها
أَهلُ مَساعيها وَأَحلامِها
A branch he raised from its saplings
The people of its endeavors and dreams
يَسعى بِمِقراتِكَ قَومٌ حَبَوا
لَم يَتَناهَوا دونَ إِفعامِها
A people who love your gifts strive
They did not refrain before completing them
أَصَيدَ مَحزومٍ عَلى ظَهرِهِ
غُلبُ الحَمالاتِ وَجُرّامِها
A tied game on his back
Loads fatigue and pulls him
مُشتَرَكِ الكَسبِ طَويلِ الغِنى
وَصّالِ أَسبابٍ وَجَذّامِها
Of collective livelihood, long wealth
Joining reasons and gathering them
حَمّالِ أَشناقِ دِياتِ الثَأى
عَن عِدَفِ الأَصلِ وَجُشّامِها
Carrying the ransoms of distant blood vengeance
From the chastity of origin and fortress
كَأَنَّهُ في القَومِ غِبَّ السُرى
بَعدَ وَنى الخَيلِ وَتَسآمِها
As if among the people the journey was hidden from him
After the emaciation of horses and their boredom
بازٍ غَدا يَنفُضُ عَن مَتنِهِ
نَضحَ سَماءٍ غِبَّ إِرذامِها
A falcon that went in the morning shaking
From his back the drizzle of pouring rain
أَقسَمتُ لا أَمدَحُ حَتّى أُرى
في ذاتِ لَحدٍ رَهنَ أَرجامِها
I swore I would not praise until I see
In the side of a grave the pledge of its pillars
إِلّا فَتىً لِلحَمدِ في مالِهِ
قَسمٌ إِذا ضُنَّ بِأَقسامِها
But a youth in his money is for praise
A share, if reckoned with its shares
يَمنَعُ ما شاءَ وَيَعطي الَّتي
تَسمو إِلَيها عَينُ بِأَقسامِها
He refuses what he wants and gives what
Eyes aspire to through its shares
مَتى يَعِد يُنجِز وَلا يَكتَبِل
مِنهُ العَطايا طولُ إِعتامِها
Whenever he promises he fulfills and does not
Deceive from his gifts the length of his darknesses
كَفّاهُ كَفٌّ لا يُرى سَيبُها
مُقَسَّطاً رَهبَةَ إِعدامِها
A palm whose palm is unseen sufficed him
Moderating the fear of his destruction
مَبسوطَةٌ تَستَنُّ أَرواقُها
عَلى مَواليها وَمُعتامِها
Extended which its lobbies hope for
Its loyalists and confidants
وَكَفُّهُ الأُخرى بِها يَبتَغي
نَقضَ ثَأى قَومٍ وَأَوذَمِها
While his other palm through it seeks
To break the distance of a people and their injuries
إِن فَتَقَت لَم يَلتَئِم فَتَقُها
أَو أَرأَمَت عيشَ بِإِرآمِها
If it cracked, its crack would not heal
Or if it wanted life through its pieces
فيها عَلى الأَعداءِ عُرضِيَّةٌ
في حَشِّها الحَربَ وَإِضرامِها
In it for the enemies is vulnerability
In its courtyard, war and its flames
يَفري الأُمورَ الحُذّذا إِربَةٍ
لَيِّها شَزراً وَإِبرامِها
He cleverly arranges fearful affairs
Binding its knots and concluding them
وَيَجتَلي غُرَّةَ مَجهولِها
بِالرَأيِ مِنهُ قَبلَ إِنجامِها
And reveals the unknown of its perplexity
Through opinion before accomplishing them
ماضٍ إِذا الأَنكاسُ بَعدَ الكَرى
تَباعَجَت أَرواحُ أَحلامِها
Decisive if after the cycles souls
Of its dreams were disturbed
وَدارِ قَومٍ أَشِبٍ شِعبُها
دائِمَةٍ هَبوَةُ إِقتامِها
And the house of a people whose hills are difficult
Whose darkness is continuous
شُمِّ الأَعالي شائِلٍ حَولَها
شَعراءُ مُبيَضٍّ ذُرى هامِها
Smell the heights, around it skeptically
Poets of courage, the delusions of their zeal
خادِعَةِ المَسلَكِ أَرصادُها
تُمسي وُكوناً فَوقَ آرامِها
Deceptive in method, its observations
Spend nights and days over its wildernesses
طَعَنَت بِالجَيشِ بِها هادِياً
خَوفَ مَلاقيها وَأَهضامِها
It stabbed the army through it, guiding
The fear of meeting it and its assaults
قَدَّ التِهامِيَّ بِإِزميلِهِ
عَن قُدرَةٍ مَقروظَ آدامِها
Until when a night darkened
It assaulted, then flew after its darkness
حَتّى إِذا ما لَيلَةٌ أَظلَمَت
ثومَّتَ طارَت بَعدَ إِظلامِها
Like the black dress, so its edges
Are a dawn that revealed the greenness of its garments
كَجُبَّةِ الساجِ فَحافاتُها
صُبحٌ جَلا خُضرَةَ أَهدامِها
He raided it with a raid that multiplied
The family of its days and orphans
بَثَّ عَلَيها غارَةً أَكثَرَت
عَيلَ أَياماها وَأَيتامِها
With horses whose lands have dried up
And the cunning of criminals failed
بِالخَيلِ قَد جَفَّت مَبادينُها
وَآلَ مِن حيلَةِ أَجرامِها
Destroyer of wars, he managed it
Distinguishing money and spoils
مِردى حُروبٍ مِثلُهُ ساسَها
مُتلِفِ أَموالٍ وَغَنّامِها
Pale-lipped, it seeks blood
Its jaws from the long bridling
شاحِبَةِ الأَفواهِ تَهمي دَماً
أَشداقُها مِن طولِ إِلجامِها
The birds twitter when it takes
Its breaths in the process of bowing
تُرَنِّقُ الطَيرُ إِذا ما عَدَت
أَنفاسَها في قُبلِ إِرخامِها
It divides the sheep with the flock
Of the silent biting fangs of its flags
يُجَزِّئُ الغُنمَ بِمَحشورَةٍ
خُرسٍ خَفِيٍّ ضَرسُ أَعلامِها
They transgress with the hands when employed
From it lightly due to their bodies
تَجورُ بِالأَيدي إِذا اِستُعمِلَت
مِنها عَلى خِفَّةِ أَجسامِها
The transgression of the gazelles of Luwayy Hatham
Remembered the chastity of their yards
جِوارَ غِزلانِ لِوى هَيثَمٍ
تَذَكَّرَت فيقَةِ آرامِها
