1. كأنَّ تأجُّجَ كانونِنا

    تَكاثُفُ نَوْرٍ من العُصْفُرِ

    It is as though our brazier’s blaze

    were a dense cluster of safflower blossoms.

  2. وأحدثَ إخمادُه زُرْقةً

    تَأجَّجُ في مُدمَجٍ أحمَرِ

    And quenching it produced a blue hue

    that blazes within a compact red mass,

  3. كَبِركَةِ جَمْرٍ على صَاجِها

    بقايا تَفَتُّحِ لَينُوفَرِ

    like a pool of embers, on whose iron plate

    lie remnants of water-lily blooms.