زارَني في أَوائِلِ الشَهرِ بَدري
وَالثُرَيّا كَأَنَّها تاجُ دُرِّ
At the month's beginning, my full moon came to me,
while the Pleiades seemed a crown of pearls;
وَكَأَنَّ النُجومَ نَردٌ كِبارٌ
وَكَأَنَّ السَماءَ رِقعَةُ بَحرِ
the stars seemed like great dice,
and the sky an expanse of sea;
وَكَأَنَّ المَجَرَّ جِسمُ لُجَينِ
وَكَأَنَّ الهِلالَ زَورَقُ تِبرِ
the Milky Way seemed a body of silver,
and the crescent moon a skiff of pure gold.
فَاِعتَنَقنا ما بَينَ صَحوٍ وَسَكرٍ
وَاِفتَرَقنا ما بَينَ صُبحٍ وَفَجرِ
We embraced, somewhere between sobriety and intoxication,
and parted, somewhere between morning light and dawn.
Sol 5.6