## Chapter Five ### Poetry and Poets in the Al-Majmadin Region We can divide Shabih poetry into two stages or categories: old and new.

The old trend in Shabih poetry is analogous to the Hijazi trend in Arabic heritage.

As for modern poetry, it is analogous to the trends of modern Islamic poets. The old is conservative, looking directly and simply at the environment, and its expression is more truthful. It relates to what has occurred in people's lives of renewal.

The new, as for the modern, its art is more admirable, and it relates to what has occurred in people's lives of renewal.

Modern poetry, or the modern trend in Shabih poetry, emerged after the Second World War, because many of the girls of Shabih joined the army and came to their country with a new taste that people were not accustomed to. 81 From the old, the saying of their poet: My hasty mother, who does not fill and does not own Her belongings and her drum in her village.

He hits the mark, and they are inseparable. The hasty one is the soft fruit that is palatable to eat. And his love for it is such that he does not hasten to eat it, and he wants it to remain in his mouth before he swallows it. She has taken his heart and placed it in her special box and locked the box. We notice that the poet first resorted to the environment, he resorted to the hasty one and to the box, not to the (lullab) or the (shashla, as another poet might do if he were from the youth of Shabih who traveled to Khartoum, for example). The poet's environment is clearly evident here. 82 From modern poetry, the saying of the poet: The moon is upon you, a little bit.

O lamp, they do not rise at sunset.

81 Ahmed Othman Ibrahim: From the Poems of Shabih, op. cit., pp. 201.

82 Ibid., p. 1.

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