The Yemeni poet Ahmed Al-Jabri died today, Saturday, in the capital, Sana’a, at the age of 86.

Al-Jabri was born in the Al-Shuwaifa district of Khadir District in Taiz Governorate in 1937, and is considered one of the most prominent poets of Yemen in the modern era.

Al-Jabri was famous for his patriotic and emotional singing poems, and many Yemeni artists sang for him, including Ayoub Tarish, Abdul Basit Absi, and Muhammad Saeed Abdullah.

Among Al-Jabri’s most famous poems are “What do you have to do with your loved ones?” “The bird of sorrows,” “A division and a share,” and “O lover of the night, tell me what you are waiting for.”

Al-Jabri has more than 200 poems and creative works, ranging from rhyming, lyrical, patriotic, dub and colorful clips, contained in his luxurious publication “Colorful Clusters”

Early on, Al-Jabri summarized everyone’s denial of him in some verses of his poem “They Lost Me”:-

• They lost me and they are my family, and if I am absent, they will not find someone like me,

And I thought they were worthy of my love...and when I came, I did not find any worthy people.

Al-Jabri published many poetry collections, including “Colored Clusters,” “The Poet’s Silo,” and “They Lost Me.”

Activists on social media expressed their deep sadness over Al-Jabri’s death, describing him as “a great poet of stature.”