As a poet, Ibn al-Qaysarānī is most famous for his panegyrics for ʿImād al-Dīn Zangī and Nūr al-Dīn ibn Zangī and his love poems for people from around Antioch. He also composed panegyrics for previous governors of Damascus: Shams al-Mulūk Duqāq, Ṭughtikīn and Tāj al-Mulūk Būrī. Abū Ṭāhir also received one. In one panegyric, he praises Būrī for the defence of Damascus against the Franks in 1129. In two rhyming poems, he commemorates Zangī's victories at the Battle of Baʾrin (1135) and the Siege of Edessa (1144).