لِخَوْلَةَ أَطْلَالٌ بِبُرْقَةِ ثَهْمَدِ / تَلُوحُ كَبَاقِي الْوَشْمِ فِي ظَاهِرِ الْيَدِ
Traces of Khawlah’s former camp remain at Barqat Thahmad; they show faintly like the remains of a tattoo on the back of a hand.
Aṭlāl are the remnants of an abandoned dwelling. Talūḥu suggests that these traces are visible, though indistinct: the poet sees no complete home, only scattered marks. The past survives through signs of what has disappeared.
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Ṭarafah ibn al-ʿAbd: Ruins, Ships, Gazelle, and Beauty (Verses 1–10)
لِخَوْلَةَ أَطْلَالٌ بِبُرْقَةِ ثَهْمَدِ / تَلُوحُ كَبَاقِي الْوَشْمِ فِي ظَاهِرِ الْيَدِ
Traces of Khawlah’s former camp remain at Barqat Thahmad; they show faintly like the remains of a tattoo on the back of a hand.
Aṭlāl are the remnants of an abandoned dwelling. Talūḥu suggests that these traces are visible, though indistinct: the poet sees no complete home, only scattered marks. The past survives through signs of what has disappeared.