وَشاعِرٍ أَثقَلُ مِن هِجرَةٍ

حَلَّت فَحَلَّت عُقدَةَ الوَصلِ

And a poet heavier than a migration

That untied, untied the knot of connection

يَقيسُ أَشعاري بِأَشعارِهِ

وَمَن يَقيسُ الرَأسَ بِالنَصلِ

He measures my poems with his poems

And who measures the head with an axe