مبسمها

أوتار مبعثرة
ترجمة إنجليزية
شارك:
كَأَنَّهَا وَرْدَةٌ تَزْهُو بِمَبْسِمِهَايَزِينُ لُؤْلُؤَهُ رَحِيقُ بَلْسَمِهَا
وَإِنَّنِي نَحْلَةٌ تَشْتَارُ مِنْ فَمِهَاحُلْوَ الرَّحِيقِ، وَتَحْوِينِي بِمِعْصَمِهَا

Her Smile

  1. She is like a rose that glories in her smiling mouth1,
    whose pearls are graced by the nectar of her balm2.
  2. And I am a bee that gathers from her mouth
    the sweetest nectar3, and she holds me at her wrist.

Notes

  1. Mabsim is the smiling mouth, the place of the smile. The 'pearls' of the second half are her teeth, a classical image. ↩
  2. Balsam is a healing balm; here it is the sweetness of her mouth, which soothes and heals like balm. ↩
  3. Tashtār is from ishtāra, to gather honey from the comb. The bee draws the nectar of her mouth, and then she keeps it at her wrist, where a bracelet would lie. ↩

English translation prepared by artificial intelligence and reviewed against the Arabic for accuracy of meaning and rhetoric.