Where Are You

Where are you?

Where are you?
The only one that I seek in day and night, where are you?
      Within every glimpse of my vanished sight, where are you?
You are the ultimate soul of love and peace; do not hide.
      In this journey, I need comfort in my plight; where are you?
I am so lost, and I can't find my way out; please help.
      Who will help me to win this desperate fight? Where are you?
I am anxiously seeking what the truth is; tell me now.
      What else can do besides sleeping or sit tight? Where are you?
My nights are darkened, and days darker than nights; I need light.
      The twilight of the dawn has not enough light; where are you?
My wish is to fly as high as the sky; show me more.
     Ascending into the boundaries of your height, where are you?
Me and "Haloo," we are both witnessing love, can you see?
      Without love, this globe will be full of fright; where are you?

6/3/2016 Haloo

This form of poetry is called "Ghazal." The Ghazal (Persian/Arabic) is a poetic form consisting of 5-15 rhyming couplets with the perfect syllabus in each couplet and usually follows with a refrain (the repeating phrase), although using a refrain is not mandatory. It is common in ghazals for the poet's name or nickname to be featured in the last couplet. Ghazal always expresses the pain of loss or separation and the beauty of love (both physical and spiritual) in spite of that pain. The great Persian Poets such as "Rumi and Hafiz" used this style of poetry to express their thoughts.

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Date: 9/6/2016 12:58:00 PM
You are the ultimate soul of love and peace, do not hide. #this although is a question evrday but you have just defined that in a best way. loved reading it
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Pashang Salehi
Date: 12/21/2016 1:56:00 PM
Thanks Kamran...
Date: 9/5/2016 6:35:00 PM
Lovely ghazal :) congrats on your placement :)-luloo
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Pashang Salehi
Date: 9/5/2016 9:24:00 PM
Thank you my dear..
Date: 8/29/2016 10:14:00 AM
I'll confess that I don't think I've ever read a ghazal or if I did wasn't Aware of it. This is excellent. You've inspired me to try one. Great write
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Pashang Salehi
Date: 8/29/2016 10:49:00 AM
Thank you Phillip.
Date: 8/29/2016 6:32:00 AM
A fine piece indeed.... Congrats Pashang, for your top placement in the contest!! ;-)
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Pashang Salehi
Date: 8/29/2016 10:48:00 AM
Thank you Teddy..
Date: 8/28/2016 8:36:00 AM
Great ghazal, Pashang:) I like ghazals, and love listening to them (in Urdu/Hindi, of course)...Yours was exceptionally good:) A #7:) Just wanted to know, do you write in Hindi??
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Pashang Salehi
Date: 8/28/2016 9:50:00 AM
Thank you Jo, I like them too. No I do not know Hindi. Once again Thank you..
Date: 8/27/2016 11:23:00 PM
Congrats on your placing high. Well done with this lovely write. :) Sunita
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Pashang Salehi
Date: 8/28/2016 1:29:00 AM
Thank you Sunita...
Date: 8/27/2016 10:14:00 PM
A smooth sounding, educational experience. Congrats!
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Pashang Salehi
Date: 8/28/2016 1:29:00 AM
Thank you Tom.
Date: 8/27/2016 9:26:00 PM
Congrats on a very worthy win, really copies well the style you were emulating.
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Pashang Salehi
Date: 8/28/2016 1:28:00 AM
Thank you John.
Date: 8/27/2016 7:05:00 PM
I can see you almost pleading on your knees, such is your urgency! Wonderful, Pashang!
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Date: 8/27/2016 6:24:00 PM
Wonderful poem, Pashang, both in the Ghazal form and 'Rumi' inspiration. Congratulations on your podium win! Sandra
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Pashang Salehi
Date: 8/28/2016 1:30:00 AM
Thank you Sandra, you're very kind.
Date: 8/27/2016 6:03:00 PM
I enjoyed the content and your capable use of this form, Pashang. I am now tempted to give Ghazal a go! Congratulations on a merited podium finish. Regards // paul
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Pashang Salehi
Date: 8/28/2016 1:28:00 AM
Thank you Paul..
Date: 8/27/2016 5:16:00 PM
Congrats, and thanks for explaining the Ghazal form for those of us unfamiliar with it (I never heard of it before)
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Pashang Salehi
Date: 8/27/2016 5:34:00 PM
Thank you Agnes for being so kind...
Date: 8/27/2016 5:00:00 PM
Congratulations on this fine poem being in the top three Pashang! ; )
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Pashang Salehi
Date: 8/27/2016 5:33:00 PM
Thanks Connie...
Date: 6/25/2016 10:22:00 PM
I love this beautiful poem. It is the ghazal form in English. Maybe a translation of original Persian. Superb translation with radif and qafia. It is conveying great thoughts and questions. Mr. Salehi, I enjoyed your comment on my poem, Goblet of Desire. Unfortunately, I could not find the fonts that could display the Persian version on this site. I know my poem is not a ghazal. It might be a char pareh, but i did not find a name for it on the grid.
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Pashang Salehi
Date: 6/26/2016 12:01:00 AM
Hello sir,Thank you very much. No this poem is not a translation. It is the original. I am very much involve with Persian style of poetry...Pashang
Date: 6/23/2016 2:26:00 PM
Pashang, This is a nice ghazal with very deep thought. A7 from me.........//:) with love
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Pashang Salehi
Date: 6/23/2016 4:46:00 PM
Thank you..... I'm glad that you liked it.
Date: 6/22/2016 5:44:00 AM
Lovely verse. :) Nice to see the ghazal form. Thank you for your recent visits to my work. I have been out of commission here for a while. I hope to get back soon.
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Pashang Salehi
Date: 6/22/2016 12:41:00 PM
Oh, you're so nice....
Date: 6/17/2016 1:32:00 PM
I'm crying. Dear Pashang, your rhetoric device is fantastic.
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Pashang Salehi
Date: 6/17/2016 6:51:00 PM
Thank you Naghmeh, you're always a melody to me.... Thank you
Date: 6/16/2016 4:44:00 PM
You are very kind and are trying to fix me, since I must appear broken. Netflix has just added a movie about Noam Chomsky. If you see that film, you will know where I am coming from. All is not as it seems, and I am very skeptical and may seem foolish to you. Believe me, I do appreciate that you would like to make me a better person. You have a very good heart.
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Pashang Salehi
Date: 6/16/2016 11:16:00 PM
I do not want to fix anything. I am broken myself. On your Poem you were comparing Scalia, with gonorrhea; the man was a former Supreme Court justice, I just wanted to mention that it is not right to make fun of an individual that spend his life serving this country.
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Pashang Salehi
Date: 6/16/2016 8:52:00 PM
I do not want to fix anything. I am broken myself. On your Poem you were comparing Scalia, with gonorrhea; the man was a former Supreme Court justice, I just wanted to mention that it is not right to make fun of an individual that spend his life serving this country.
Date: 6/16/2016 4:42:00 PM
Pashang, your spirit is meditative and thoughtful. I love what you write about. You are asking very profound questions. You are right to doubt my expertise since I am operating in a sphere of thought that is foreign to yours. I am trying to point out some follies and inconsistencies as I see them.
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Pashang Salehi
Date: 6/16/2016 8:44:00 PM
Thank you sir
Date: 6/15/2016 10:33:00 PM
So many familiar questions being asked here. Everyone continues to ask, but we are never given the answers... I hope all mysteries of life will be known one day... Quite an emotionally stirring and thought provoking write. Very well expressed, Pashang!
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Pashang Salehi
Date: 6/16/2016 1:13:00 AM
I have never seen anybody ask these familiar questions. You are right to some extend. We will know all the answers, and mysteries will be known to us one day. Thank you for stopping by....
Date: 6/15/2016 10:00:00 PM
Thank you for your visit! Your library contains many ghazals that I will enjoy reading and studying to learn this form! This ghazal is very thought provoking!
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Pashang Salehi
Date: 6/16/2016 1:05:00 AM
Thank you Walter
Date: 6/9/2016 6:18:00 PM
An fabulous ghazal... one that can searche for answers.. sadly, we won't know until we perish
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Pashang Salehi
Date: 6/9/2016 6:24:00 PM
Thanks Tim...... You're so kind.
Date: 6/4/2016 9:20:00 PM
I am so glad we have an expert Ghazal writer at Soup. This is so lovely!!
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Pashang Salehi
Date: 6/5/2016 1:08:00 AM
Thanks Andrea, you're very kind.
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