عَجَباً لِأَحدَبَ في دَمَشقَ وَكتبه
هُنَّ الكَتائِبُ عثنَ في الحَدباءِ
What a wonder: a hunchback in Damascus and his books!
They are battalions that have wreaked havoc in al-Hadba.
وَكَأَنَّهُ الزَوراءُ وَالأَقلامُ أَس
همه بِها يفري كُلى الزَوراءِ
And he is like al-Zawra; the pens are arrows
of his, with which he rends al-Zawra’s kidneys.
آراؤُهُ شُهبُ البزاةِ فَسَل بِها
حَلَباً إِذا اِنقَضَّت عَلى الشَهباءِ
His views are grey falcons; so ask about them
of Aleppo, when they swoop down upon al-Shahba.
في نِقسِهِ المسوَدُّ أَذهب طرسه ال
مبيَض دَولَة آمِد السَوداءِ
With his blackened ink, his whitened page has ended
the dominion of Amid the Black.
Sol 6.1