بَعْدَ عَهْدٍ لَنَا بِبُرْقَةِ شَمَّاءَ ۞ فَأَدْنَى دِيَارِهَا الْخَلْصَاءُ
Translation: After a time when we stayed at Burqat Shammāʾ, the nearest of her later dwelling places was al-Khalṣāʾ.
Baʿda ʿahdin introduces the interval of remembered time. Burqat Shammāʾ and al-Khalṣāʾ are proper place names. Their exact coordinates are less important to this lesson than their literary succession.
The accumulated names make the departure feel expansive. The poet reconstructs a geography of absence rather than merely listing a route.