Winter kept its vow
Winter kept its vow,
fulfilled its promise to the lily of the valley.
A summer day had waited all through winter.
Then the lightning came, proclaiming
that the earth had given painless birth
and that her babes were nursing at the breasts of clouds.
Look how the earth is laughing, look how soft
her cheeks, just yesterday so hard.
The beds…
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Speak, messenger, my greetings to my friend,
a man whose like does not exist on earth,
whose wondrous gifts my heart will ever praise
and not forget as long as it may live.
He sent a salver full…
Betrothed to the earth’s dust
Betrothed to the earth’s dust, whose husband is the dirt,
far from any lad, she lost her maidenhood.
As she approached the [burial] mounds, to join their graves—
She was a woman in her maidenhood.…
For the mountain of Zion
For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate (Lamentations 5:18)
I will groan and be astonished.
For the mountain of Zion I will complain,
and I will have mercy upon its dust.
For the mountain of…
I bear my wandering
[The Jewish people:]I bear my wandering; I take delight in my exile.I serve my subjugator; I am hopeful in my sickness.Let my captivity be pleasing to me, let me not reject the [moral message of]…
The Lord judges nations
The Lord judges nations; the Lord, for all times;
He is the Protector of widows, and He is the Father of orphans.
Have you seen the marvels of God, who has created and perfected?
He also saved for…
I have a beautiful friend
Ismā‘īl:
I have a beautiful friend who repaid the helpful with the harmful and permitted what was forbidden to her.
Qasmūna:Like the sun from which the full moon perpetually acquires its light but…