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  • 08/31/2021
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The Great Mirror of Same-Sex Love - Poetry - 6. ...With his crimson lips...

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With his crimson lips,

my handsome youth

asks me though a chuckle,

“But in which God do you believe?”

I answer him plainly, “In your love

I find the truest faith, my Paradise,

my Lord and all Eternity.”

—Abu Ishaq Ibrahim Ibn Sahl,[i]

circa 1150

 

 

[after Andreas Angelakis]

 

 

 

[i] “With his crimson lips, my handsome youth” Abu Ishaq Ibrahim Ibn Sahl Poetic Anthology of Queer Eroticism, Andreas Angelakis [Editor] (Athens 1988)

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On 8/31/2021 at 11:51 AM, Parker Owens said:

The question and the answer are both perfect. Thank you again for letting their echo sound in our ears today.

Thank you @Parker Owens. I am finding that, one, there was an immense amount of same-sex love poetry written in Moorish Iberia, and two, almost none -- I mean, zip, zero, none!!! -- is available in English. I had to write to a bookstore in Athens to procure the Greek-language anthology of Gay verse cited above, which has a decent section on Arabic-language poetry, and make a translation from the Greek. I go to all lengths necessary for the "Mirror"! :yes:   

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Parker Owens
5 hours ago, AC Benus said:

Thank you @Parker Owens. I am finding that, one, there was an immense amount of same-sex love poetry written in Moorish Iberia, and two, almost none -- I mean, zip, zero, none!!! -- is available in English. I had to write to a bookstore in Athens to procure the Greek-language anthology of Gay verse cited above, which has a decent section on Arabic-language poetry, and make a translation from the Greek. I go to all lengths necessary for the "Mirror"! :yes:   

And I, for one, a beneficiary of your labors, thank you. You show us so very much. What was it that kept this out of translation? 

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