Abdullah al-Samti 

The shock of poetry, its wonder and imagination, and its mastery over the poet's soul makes him in a state of constant anxiety, and in a state of rebellion against the stereotypical and the familiar, because he is always looking for the new and the adventurous. 

This is how we can read these atmospheres among a number of poets who lived for poetry but in a short life in which they might not have borne this shock, this wonder, and the dense energy of poetic imagination. 

Despite their short lives, they contributed to taming poetry and writing lasting poems, carving their imaginations at the edges of the alphabet and writing language within a language they lived by and for, so their poems and collections lived in the memory of Arabic poetry. 

Among the short-lived poets in the memory of Arabic poetry is the poet Tarafa bin al-Abd who died at (26) years old and is the author of the famous Mu'allaqa:

Khaula has ruins in the stony land of Thahmad

They appear like the remains of a tattoo on the back of the hand

The Mu'allaqa includes (33) verses among the most brilliant verses in describing the camel, and also includes a large number of unique verses of poetic wisdom such as his saying:

And the oppression of kin is more bitter

Upon the man than the stroke of the polished sword 

And his famous verse that Ibn Qutayba classified in his book "Uyun al-Akhbar" as the best verse in wisdom:

Days will reveal to you what you were ignorant of 

And one whom you did not provide for will bring you news 

Among the most prominent of these poets is also the poet "Imru' al-Qais" who lived (45) years, and was nicknamed "The Wandering King". He was searching for sovereignty and a life of dignity, and he is the author of the famous Mu'allaqa that changed Arabic poetry and fixed the wild things, and made him a pioneer of ancient Arabic poetics: 

Stop, let us weep from the memory of a beloved and a home

At the falling of the sands between al-Dakhul and Hawmal

Then Tuwdih and then al-Miqrat, its mark was not erased

For what the south and north winds have woven over it

He is the one who established the artistic traditions of the Arabic poem before Islam. 

The poet Dhu al-Rumma died in the Umayyad era at (39) years old, having lived a sharp contradiction between his dreams and his reality that led him to an early death in the heart of the desert when his camel "Saydah" bolted and left him alone in the desert, and these two verses were found on his bow: 

O convey to the youths from me a message

Despise the mounts for they are people of lowliness 

For Saydah has left me in a stray land

My tongue is stained from thirst 

Abu Tammam died, author of the Diwan "Al-Hamasa" and master of the perfected poetry, at (42) and he was one of the princes of poetry in the Abbasid era. Likewise, Abu Firas al-Hamdani died at (37) years old, the author of the wonderful chivalry poems in our Arabic poetry, and author of the "Rumiyyat" which he wrote in his prison, and author of the famous poem:

I see you hard to tears, patience is your character

Has passion no prohibition over you nor command? 

Yes, I am longing and I have a heartache

But one like me does not broadcast his secret

If the night covers me, I stretch out the hand of passion

And I shed a tear that is of the character of the great

Ibn Hani al-Andalusi died at (42) years old, and likewise died at an early age: Waddah al-Yaman, the lover poet who was killed in the well, Tamim bin al-Mu'izz, Marwan bin Abdulrahman, and al-Sharif al-Radi, author of the distinguished poetic creativity and author of the famous poetic verse: 

And my eye turned and when it was hidden

From it the ruins, the heart turned 

In the modern era, there are a number of short-lived poets such as the most famous Tunisian poet: "Abu al-Qasim al-Shabbi" (1909-1934) who died at (25) years old but left his romantic collection which contributed to forming the Arabic romantic trend: "Songs of Life" and in it his famous poem: "In the Temple of Love" and his most famous poem:

If the people one day want life

Then fate must respond

And the night must clear

And the chain must break

• The poet Fawzi al-Ma'louf, who is of the American Mahjar poets, lived (31), years (1899-1930) and wrote six works including: "The Fall of Granada", "The Flame of Torment", "Songs of Andalusia", "From the Heart of Heaven", "On the Magic Carpet", and "Between the Birds" 

The poet Muhammad Kamal Ramzi died at the age of (21), and left a collection in the field of the prose poem achieved by the writer Edwar al-Kharrat. Likewise the poet Hashem al-Rifai author of the prison poem, and the Syrian poet Abdulbasit al-Sufi (1931-1960) died at the age of (29), a romantic poet who expressed much of the introversion and isolation, and a Diwan was published for him: "Rural Verses" 

The poet Badr Shakir al-Sayyab (1926-1964) died at (38) years old and is the author of the famous poem: "Rain Song":

Your eyes are two forests of palm trees at the hour of dawn 

Or two balconies from which the moon is receding 

He published a group of collections including: The Sunken Temple, and Rain Song

Likewise the Egyptian poet Amal Dunqul (1940-1983) who departed at the age of (43), author of the famous poem Do Not Reconcile:

Do not reconcile even if they crowned you with ld

Do you see when I uge out your eyes

And fix two jewels in their place

Do you see?

They are things that cannot be bought

Dunqul was inspired by Arab and Islamic heritage in his poems and presented a group of important collections including: "Crying in the Hands of Zarqa al-Yamama" and "Room 8 Papers" 

Among the poets who lived for a short age is the poet Hashem al-Rifai (1935-1959). Hashem al-Rifai was assassinated at the age of twenty-four, after leaving more than 187 poems that renewed the handling of Islamic issues that were absent from the literary field in his era.

From his poetry on the noble Al-Azhar: 

Stand in the quarters of glory and weep for Al-Azhar

And lament it as a garden for virtues that has become empty 

Likewise, among the short-lived poets is the Kuwaiti poet Fahd al-Askar (1917-1951), who died at (34) years old and is one of the pioneers of poetry in Kuwait.

He was famous for his poems, so he wrote a poem of praise for King Abdulaziz Al Saud – may d have mercy on him – and Abdul Latif al-Kuwaiti composed and sang it. When he heard it, he requested the arrival of its writer to Riyadh through the representative of King Abdulaziz in Kuwait, Abdullah bin Hamad al-Nafisi, and he was a guest of King Abdulaziz in Riyadh. His father's cousin Abdullah bin Ali al-Askar was in his reception, and King Abdulaziz appointed him as a scribe for his son Mohammed bin Abdulaziz Al Saud who resided between Yemen and Saudi Arabia. Then he asked Abdullah bin Ali al-Askar to mediate for him with the King to return to Kuwait, and he returned to Kuwait.

The short-lived poets contributed to forming a distinct Arabic poetics with their poems that signify early genius and a distinct flying poetic talent, although most of them are represented in introversion, or rebellion against reality, or sadness, or expressing nature, or cosmic contemplation.