ضحكت ثغور حدائق ورياض — محمد الغلامي 29 قصيدة

ضحكت ثغور حدائق وَرياض

وانساب مآء جداول وَحياض

The lips of gardens and meadows smiled,

and the water of streams and pools flowed.

ضاع النَسيم فقم بنا يا صاحبي

نقضي بالاستقبال حال الماضي

The breeze wafted fragrance; rise with us, my friend,

let us erase the past's condition by welcoming what comes.

ضربت طبول الرعد في جوّ السما

وَالطير يَشدو من خلال غياض

Thunder's drums were beaten in the sky's expanse,

and birds sing from within the groves.

ضبّ الرَبيع بها سرادِق عزمه

وَجياده تأبى عَلى الرواض

Spring secured there the pavilion of its resolve,

and its steeds defy their tamers.

ضفت الظلال وَقَد صفت أَنهارها

وَتدبجت حمر الربا ببياض

The shadows spread wide, and their rivers grew clear,

and the red hillocks were embroidered with white.

ضع كلّ شخص لَيسَ بارقة الصبا

تلهيه بالايمآء والايماض

Set aside anyone whom the lightning of youth does not

divert with gestures and flashes.

ضرج خدود اللهو من كأس الطلا

وأَسحب لذيل مسرة فضفاض

Crimson pleasure's cheeks from the cup of wine,

and trail joy's ample train.

ضآء الزَمان وأَغمضَت عَن فعلنا

عين الحوادِث أَيما أَغماض

Time shone bright, and to our deeds was shut

the eye of calamity—utterly shut.

ضيع جَميع العمر في لئم الطلا

عوضاً ونعم معوضة المعتاض

Squander your whole life in communion with wine,

in exchange—how fine the recompense for its taker!

ضعفاً أَرى بَل ذاكَ عجزاً من فَتى

أَمسى عَن الأَرواح في اعراض

Weakness I see—nay, impotence—in a youth

who has come to turn away from spirits.

ضجت بها الأَكيار ترفع صوتها

فَلَها الغنا غرض من الأَغراض

The bellows clamored within them, raising their voice,

for song is one aim among their aims.

ضاهَت بذاكَ السجع مدحي لِلَّذي

فاقَ الأَنام بجوده الفياض

With that rhymed song they matched my praise of him

who surpassed humankind with his overflowing generosity.

ضافى لباس المجد أَحمد سيدي

ذو الرشد ذخرى جابر المهياض

Ahmad, my lord, wears glory's ample robe,

possessed of sound judgment, my treasure, mender of the broken-winged.

ضراب أَرقاب العداة بصارم

يَبقى بها متهم ندوب عضاض

He repeatedly strikes enemies' necks with a keen sword;

upon them remain [unclear wording] scars of fierce bites.

ضرم الحروب يثيرها بحوافِر

من كل أَجرد للحصى رضاض

A firebrand of wars, he stirs them with the hooves

of every sleek steed, a crusher of pebbles.

ضيف الخطوب نفاه عنا اذا سطا

بغرار عضب لِلفَتى غضاض

Calamity's guest he banished from us when he struck

with the edge of a keen blade that brings a young warrior low.

ضرغام بأس حل ما عقد العدا

أَمراً برأي مبرم نقاض

A lion of valor, he unraveled what his foes had knotted,

a scheme, through firm, knot-unraveling judgment.

ضاقَت بجحفله البقاع فخيموا

بطوال أَقطار الفلا وَعراض

The lands were too narrow for his host, so they encamped

along the length and breadth of the desert's reaches.

ضحى الجمال غداة ما نحر العدا

وَرماهم من ذلك الرضراض

He sacrificed camels the morning he slaughtered the foes,

and hurled at them some of that gravel.

ضجت نجائبهم فأرسل اثرهم

يعسوب خيل للحصى رضاض

Their noble camels cried out, so he sent after them

a chief among steeds, a crusher of pebbles.

ضعفوا وقد أَكل الوجيف لحومهم

فالكل أَنقاض عَلى أَنقاض

They weakened, and swift galloping had consumed their flesh,

so all were wrecks mounted upon wrecks.

ضجروا وَقَد أَفتى بسفك دمائهم

وَحسامه في الحرب سم قاض

They grew distressed, for he had decreed their blood be shed,

and his sword in battle is a deadly poison.

ضبطت أُمور المؤمنين بعزمه

وَبعدله تلقى الجَميع رواض

The believers' affairs were set in order by his resolve,

and through his justice you find everyone content.

ضرّ العداة بنفعه أَهل العلا

وَدَعاهم حرضاً من الاَحراض

He harmed his enemies by benefiting the people of eminence,

and called them wretches among the wretched.

ضاعف له الأَمداح وأعلَم أَنه

فرد وَلَيسَ الغمر كالخواض

Double his praises, and know that he

is peerless; a novice is not like a practiced wader.

ضنك المراس شديد عزم في الوَغى

لا يَستَكين لحادِث مضاض

Hard to grapple with, firm in resolve in battle,

he does not yield to a bitter calamity.

ضد الشرير وعون عان فاقد

يَسمو عَلى عمرو العلا وَمضاض

Foe of the wicked, helper of a bereft captive,

he towers above Amr al-Ula and Mudad.

ضوء الصابح يُضاهي منه بهجته

وَمن المَكارِم مملأ الأوفاض

The morning visitor's light rivals his radiance,

and with noble gifts he fills the satchels.

ضرب الزَمان عليه قبة سودد

ما سلّ في الآفاق سيف ماض

Time pitched over him a dome of sovereignty,

as long as a keen sword is drawn across the horizons.