Rubai'I: Umar Ibn Ibrahim Al-Khayyam, Omar Son of Ibrahim, the Tent-Maker

Ruba’i*: Umar ibn Ibrahim al-Khayyam*, Omar son of Ibrahim, the tent-maker Words awoke on the retina of the astronomer Unknown aeons piled dark energy upon dark matter Astral bodies all strung like sea shells in the firmament What old Khayyam saw was not what was seen by the Maker! • Omar Khayyam, d. 1131, was a renowned mathematician-astronomer poet of old Persia • ruba’i (plural: ruba’iyat): 11th-12th century Persian self-contained quatrain of 14 syllables rhyming aaba made popular in the West through Edward Fitzgerald’s 1859 translations titled: The Ruba’iyat of Omar Khayyam © T. Wignesan – Paris, 2013