“Halt here friends.
Allow me private pause alone
to remember a love, a longing, an unrequited right
here where the sand dune’s rim whorls between where
we’ve abandoned and where we’re bound for.”
Atlal Imru Al-Qays
Modern Translation by Irish poet desmond o’grady, 1990
Marrakech
“Look!
Crowning that stormcloud.
Lightening! It flashes like a bowman’s hand
flicks arrows from his quiver.
A brilliant blaze of light
Like that of the lone hermit when he splashes oil
On the twisted wick of his nightlamp.”
Mu’Allaqat Imru al-qays
Desmond o’grady, 1990
Essaouria/Mogador
The
” … the vessels of ibn-i yámin
their mariners steer now, tack by tack, now straight forward;
their prows cleave the streaks of the rippling water
just as a boy playing will scoop the sand into parcels.”
mu’allaqat, tarafa
A. J. arberry, 1957
A Trip to the Sahara Desert
“Their howdahs should pile hung with dark damasks
and finely spun veil transparencies with red-rose fringes.
In their costly clothes they should look coyness personified.”
Mu’allaqat Imru al-Qays
Desmond O’Grady, 1990
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