هاجَ المَنازِلُ رِحلةَ المُشتاقِ

دِمَنٌ وآياتٌ لَبِثْنَ بَواقي

The dwellings yearned for the journey of the longing one

Blood and verses remained as ruins

لَبِسَ الروامسُ والجديدُ بِلاهما

فتركنَ مثلَ المهرقِ الأخلاقِ

The bankruptcy wore new clothes without them

So they left like torn morals

للحارثيَّةِ ، قَبلَ أن تَنأى النَّوى

بِهِمِ ، وإِذ هيَ لا تُريدُ فِراقي

For al-Harithiya, before the motives withdrew

With them, and when she does not want to part from me

ومَجَرُّ سارِيةٍ تَجُرُّ ذُيولَها

نوسَ النعامِ ، تناطُ بالأعناقِ

And the orbit of a raised hand dragging its trains

Like the plumage of ostriches, clinging to necks

مِصرِيَّةٍ ، نَكباءَ أعرَضَ شَيمُها

بأشابةٍ ، فزرودَ ، فالأفلاقِ

An Egyptian woman, whose nature arrogance had turned away

With an Abyssinian, so it mingled, and the horizon

هَتكَتْ على عُوذِ النِّعَاجِ بُيوتَها

فيقمعنَ للركباتِ ، والأوراقِ

Her houses were ravaged over the shelters of sheep

So they hurried to the riders, and the papers

فتَرَى مَذانِبَ كُلِّ مَدفَعِ تَلْعةٍ

عجلتْ سواقها من الإتآقِ

So you see the flanks of every roaring canon

Its drivers hurried from integration

فكأَنَّ مَدفَعَ سَيل كُلِّ دَميثةٍ

يعطى بذي هدبٍ ، من الأعلاقِ

It is as if every blood-spiller canon

Gives those with humps, from the summits

منْ نسجِ بصرى والمدائن . نشرتْ

للبيع يوم تحضُّرِ الأسواقِ

From the weaving of Basra and the cities. She spread out

For sale on the day the markets were prepared

فوقفتُ فيها ناقتي ، فتحنَّنتْ

لِهَوَى الرَّواحِ ، تَتُوقُ كُلَّ مَتاقِ

So I stopped my she-camel there, and she yearned

For the passion of the wind, craving every pleasure

أَرسَلتُ هَوجاءَ النَّجاءِ ، كأنَّها

إذْ همَّ أسفلُ حشوها بنفاقِ

I sent the madwomen of salvation, as if

When the contents of her abdomen intrigued with hypocrisy

متخرّفٌ ، سلبَ الربيعُ رداءهُ

صخبُ الظلامِ ، يجيبُ كلَّ نهاقِ

A wanderer, whom spring had stripped of his cloak

The clamor of darkness, answering every brayer

منْ أخدِ ريَّاتِ الدَّنا ، التفعتْ لهُ

بُهْمَى النِّقاعِ ، وَلَجَّ في إِحناقِ

Who took the scraps of the lowly world, it cooked for him

With the gloom of squalor, and he entered into strangulation

صخبُ الشواربِ والوتينِ ، كأنَّه

مما يُغَرِّدُ مَوهِنا بِخِناقِ

The clamor of the moustaches and braids, as if it

Is what our weakness chirps with strangulation

في عانةٍ شُسُبٍ ، أَشَدَّ جِحاشَها ،

شُزُبٍ ، كأَقواسِ السَّراءِ ، دِقاقِ

In a dazed state, its blindness intensifies,

Dishevelled, like the arcs of Sira’a, thin

وكأنَّ ريقتها ، إذا نبَّتها ،

كأسٌ ، يُصَفِّقُها لِشُربٍ ساقي

And its saliva, when it oozes, is like

A cup, which a pourer claps for a drinker

صِرْفٌ ، تَرَى قَعرَ الإِناءِ وَرَاءَهَا

تودي بعقلِ المرءِ قبلَ فواقِ

A draft, you see the bottom of the vessel behind it

It would take away the mind of a person before awareness

ينسى للذَّتها أصالةَ حلمهِ

فيَظَلُّ بَينَ النَّومِ والإِطراقِ

He forgets the origin of his dream in its pleasure

And remains between sleep and dozing

٠فتَرَى النِّعاجَ بِها ، تَمشَّى خِلْفةً

مشي العباديّينَ في الأمواقِ

So you see the sheep walking behind it in single file

Like the walk of devotees in sanctuaries

يسمرنَ وحفاً ، فوقه ماءُ النَّدى ،

والنَّبتَ ، كلَّ علاقةٍ ونطاقِ

They stand still in a circle, above them the dew water,

And vegetation, every bond and range

ولقد هبطتُ الغيثَ ، حلَّ به النَّدى

يرففنَ فاضلهُ على الأشداقِ

And I had descended rain, on which dew descended

Spilling its surplus upon the lips

أَهدِي بهِ سَلَفا ، يَكونُ حَدِيثُهُمْ

خَطَرا ، وذِكرَ تَقَامِرٍ وسِباقِ

I gift it to predecessors, so it would be their

Talk, and mention of gambling and racing

حتى إذا جاءَ المثوبُ ، قدْ رأى

أسداً ، وطالَ نواجذُ المفراقِ

Until when the found came, it had seen

A lion, and the tufts of separation became long

لَبِسوا ، مِنَ الماذِيِّ ، كُلَّ مُفاضةٍ

كالنّهِي ، يَومَ رياحِهِ ، الرَّقراقِ

They wore, of soft leather, every deluge

Like the anklets, on its windy day, tinkling

منْ نسجِ دوادٍ ، وآلِ محرقٍ

غالٍ غَرائبُهُنَّ في الا فاقِ

Of the weaving of Duwad and the House of Muhriq

Its oddities are expensive in the horizons

ومنَحتُهُم نَفسي ، وآمِنةَ الشَّظَى

جَرداءَ ، ذاتَ كَرِيهةٍ ونِزاقِ

And I gave them myself, and the security of barrenness

Bare, of ugly nature and bickering

كالصَّعدةِ الجرداءِ ، آمنَ خوفها

لطفُ الدَّواءِ ، وأكرمُ الأعراقِ

Like bare jaundice, its fear is secured

By the kindness of medicine, and the most generous of constitutions

تشأى الجيادَ ، فيعترينَ لشأوها

وإِذا شأَوا لحِقَتْ بحُسنِ لَحاقِ

It desires the steeds, so they are ridden because of its desire

And when they desire, they catch up with beauty of pace

وأَصَمَّ صَدقا ، مِن رِماحِ رُدَينةٍ

بيدي غلامِ كريهةٍ ، مخراقِ

And it silenced truth, with the spears of Rudaina

With my hand, an unpleasant adolescent, tearing

شاكٍ ، يشدُّ على المضافِ ، ويدَّعي

إذْ لاتوافقُ شعبتا الإيفاقِ

Doubtful, insisting on the addition, and claiming

When the two statements of spending do not agree

إني امرؤ ، من عصبةٍ سعديَّةٍ

ذر بى الأسنَّةِ كلَّ يومِ تلاقي

I am a man, from the Sa’idi tribe

Leave the sons of donkeys every day you meet

لا يَنظُرونَ إِذا الكَتِيبةُ أَحجَمَتْ

نظرَ الجمالِ ، كربنَ بالأوساقِ

They do not look when the battalion recoils

The look of camels, they fled with the fleeces

يكفونَ غاسبهمْ ، ويقضى أمرهمْ

في غيرِ نقصٍ منهمُ ، وشقاقِ

They restrain their adversary, and their matter is decided

Without any defect in them, and conflict

والخَيلُ تَعلمُ مَن يَبُلُّ نُحورَها

بدَمٍ ، كماءِ العَنْدَمِ المُهرَاقِ

And the horses know who wets their necks

With blood, like spilled sweet basil juice