Tag: Serpent
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The Serpent of the Stones.
This poem has been adapted from Al-Nabigha Al-Thubiani’s poem, That Al-Safa. The poem is enclosed below. The agéd bard wrote down with quillOf brothers whose land’s now arid.The elder leashed his she-camelTo quench thirst in wells where snakes hid.“Brother, the valley I forbidFor death awaits in shrubs unpruned.”“I will away, and life be rid.”The snake…
Derbeel Q8 