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Ghazals of Rajat 1-6
Words are beads O poet, in your rosary, for counting tears
Who else can but you to make strings of clouddrops of tears?


Promises are fulfilled, days...

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Categories: ghazals, absence, evil, god, grief,
Form: Ghazal



Dreaming of Ghazals
The world goes on rumbling it's way, I'm dreaming,
The flowers are wilting each day, I'm dreaming,
I'm dreaming of looking again in your face,
Some kids all...

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Categories: ghazals, death, dream, love,
Form: Ghazal
Ghulam's Ghazals
Ghulam crosses the Indian border
to conquer. Bodies vanish; souls
wander in the vicarious valleys.

Fanatics essay to frighten
the music maestro, shouting 
outside the auditorium.

If they sit inside,...

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Categories: ghazals, music,
Form: Free verse
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...

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Categories: ghazals, allusion, god, spiritual, symbolism,
Form: Ghazal
When I'M No More
A play ends just, a wretched play, that I’m no more.
And you yourself, with vex, dismay, that I’m no more?

Bleeding grass, burning air, woods ashen,...

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© Pin Dew  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ghazals, death, emotions, goodbye, irony,
Form: Ghazal



A Flash of Light
Wear love like a caftan,
Less room for grief, she says.

Names entered into his notepad, 
Without explanation.

The unlimited expanse in which
All objects are contained.

A flash of...

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Categories: ghazals, humanity,
Form: Ghazal
Dreams
White upon fog upon snow upon dreams,
dreams upon snow upon fog upon white.

Dreams come, as if the minutiae of day
are merely a prelude to night...

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Categories: ghazals, dream,
Form: Ghazal
Pilgrimage
 An unceasing explorer of the woods of birch and maple until this moment,
   I wish to weave my dreams of soothing repose...

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Categories: ghazals, journey,
Form: Ghazal
Let Feelings Feign Some Frisson
Let’s meet that why nor reason face—
Fair friendship that no mission face.

Let’s understand well each other,
Yon of greys that no confusion face.   ...

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Categories: ghazals, friendship, love, relationship,
Form: Ghazal
One Monsoon Eve
Come if you can one monsoon eve,
All wet in rain one monsoon eve.

Make boats— letters we failed to write,
Let them float, feign this monsoon eve.

Borrow...

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Categories: ghazals, love, rain,
Form: Ghazal
Ask Not For
See no water for perspiration,
Ask for flowers, not all the garden.

Light a lamp if ye feel there’s darkness,
Nights are always dark, ask for no Sun.

Blame...

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Categories: ghazals, analogy, conflict,
Form: Ghazal
Humanness Is To Be Humane
Be it kings, commoners no less,
Know, humanness is not in dress.

In rage nor yet is it in love,
A raging sage has it no less.

Words nor...

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Categories: ghazals, humanity,
Form: Ghazal
If
If printers in heart posted be,
Sweet memoirs printed can be.

Many a new taste tasted be,
Relations if tested can be.

An empty pan of poverty
Mused: if these...

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Categories: ghazals, life, memory, poetry, relationship,
Form: Ghazal
I Want To Shed
Pain and anguish all want to shed,
Joy and pleasure who wants to shed?

Come O mind, give me helping hand,
The past that haunts I want to...

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Categories: ghazals, grief, joy, truth, wisdom,
Form: Ghazal
Reunion
The human heart has its own "brain" cells
Perhaps as many as 44 000, Nobel Laureate Amore, said -
As though he knew how I had needed...

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© Anil Deo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ghazals, appreciation, bible, celebration, christian,
Form: Alliteration

Book: Shattered Sighs