Abu Nuwas (c.750 - c.810) Arab poet; Libertine homosexual, lived in Baghdad during the reigns of Caliphs Harun al-Rashid and Muhammad al-Amin . His poetry describes a life of debauchery, wine, boys and women.
Sourced:
- Critic, relent!
Your hope for repentance
Will meet with disapppointment.
For this is the life,
Not desert tents,
Not camel’s milk!
- You, mad to expect repentance,
Tear your robe all you want;
I will never repent!
- I bought abandon dear
And sold all piety for pleasure.
My own free spirit I have followed,
And never will I give up lust.
Attributed:
The first three lines of one of his poems:
- Do not reproach me! For reproach is temptation— And cure me with that which is my ailment (wine).
- It (the wine) is yellow, and knows no sorrow— If a rock were to drink it, it would fly with joy.
- It is poured by a creature with a vagina, but wearing the clothes of he who possesses a penis (a young woman dressed in men's clothes)— She has two lovers: a sodomite and a fornicator.
To be completed.
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