The Great Mirror of Same-Sex Love - Poetry - 6. ...With his crimson lips...

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

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"!    

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"!    

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? 

24 minutes ago, Parker Owens said:

 What was it that kept this out of translation? 

I don't know, but there is apparently a mountain of the stuff awaiting the right scholar to bring it forward