Zarqa’ al-Yamamah, the legendarily clear-eyed Cassandra-like figure found in poetry and narrative from pre-Islamic Arabian cultural traditions, is cited as a metaphor for recent or impending disaster in political, military, and societal spheres throughout Arabic literary history. This continues to be the case to this day, with a number of examples of poetic invocation of Zarqa’ al-Yamamah in the last several decades, including most recently after the wave of revolutions sparked by the uprising in Tunisia in December 2010. While Jeries Khoury explored the use of the persona of Zarqa’ al-Yamamah in the poetry of Amal Dunqal and `Izz al-Din al-Munasira in his 2008 article in Journal of Semitic Studies, entitled “Zarqa’ al-Yamamah in the Modern Arabic Poetry, a Comparative Analysis,” this paper seeks to focus on more recent invocations of Zarqa’ al-Yamamah in poetry, specifically in the work of Thuraya al-`Urayyid, entitled “Ayna Ittijah al-Shajar?” [Where is the Trees’ Heading?] from a 1995 poetry collection of the same name, and in Nur al-Din `Azizah’s “Zarqa’ al-Yamamah waHiSan QurTajah” [Zarqa’ al-Yamamah and the Horse of Carthage] in his like-named poetry collection of 2015. While equally participating in the myth of Zarqa’ al-Yamamah, each poet deploys the story and the poetic persona of Zarqa’ to his or her specific ends, manipulating and embellishing the tradition to forge poetic, political and social commentary on specific historical circumstances. This paper will analyze these two poems by Thuraya al-`Urayyid and Nur al-Din `Azizah for their aesthetic and literary qualities, their deployment and use of the Zarqa’ al-Yamamah myth, and the poetic message they encode to the specific historical circumstances of the production of the poem, as evidenced by the content. Through comparison and contrast with other diachronic invocations of the myth of Zarqa’ al-Yamamah in Modern Arabic Literature, we consider the ongoing productive power of this myth in Arabic literary and popular culture, and how traversing the border between myth and reality contributes to the power of these pieces.