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Famous Ghazal Poems by Famous Poets

These are examples of famous Ghazal poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous ghazal poems. These examples illustrate what a famous ghazal poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).

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by Stojanovic, Dejan
...I love the new sounds of love; 
Only the new cures an old love.

Watching the love making of waves and the shore
I desire to be the wave of love. 

There is no real hate in quarrels,
Only stupidity and lack of love.

The Sun shone upon me
And I shone upon the world with love.

I fly through memory
To find a newborn love.

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by McHugh, Heather
...Too volatile, am I?too voluble?too much a word-person?
I blame the soup:I'm a primordially
stirred person.

Two pronouns and a vehicle was Icarus with wings.
The apparatus of his selves made an ab-
surd person.

The sound I make is sympathy's:sad dogs are tied afar.
But howling I become an ever more un-
heard person.

I need a hundred m...Read more of this...

by Rumi, Jalal ad-Din Muhammad
...="">now even the heavens
are thankful that
because of love
i have become
the giver of light   - Rumi. Ghazal number 1393, translated by Nader Khalili   ...Read more of this...

by Rumi, Jalal ad-Din Muhammad
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