VersesSceneLiterary effect1–3Ruined camps and elapsed yearsDistance in time and place4–5Seasonal rain and rumblingMotion, sound and renewal6–7Plants and wild animalsLife without human habitation8–9Writing and tattoo similesTrying to read the past10Question to the ruinsContrast between memory and silence
Two kinds of survival coexist: renewed wild life and remaining human traces. Neither erases the poet’s separation; hence he addresses the ruins and receives no reply.
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Labīd ibn Rabīʿah: Deserted Dwellings, Seasons, Wildlife and Traces of the Past (Verses 1–10)
VersesSceneLiterary effect1–3Ruined camps and elapsed yearsDistance in time and place4–5Seasonal rain and rumblingMotion, sound and renewal6–7Plants and wild animalsLife without human habitation8–9Writing and tattoo similesTrying to read the past10Question to the ruinsContrast between memory and silence
Two kinds of survival coexist: renewed wild life and remaining human traces. Neither erases the poet’s separation; hence he addresses the ruins and receives no reply.