Fear Ghazal Poems

Your smile was one of innocence before you looked away.
Was that a bit of fear in your eyes as you looked away?

For a month you...

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How would it feel if you've to breath your last in fire?
Everything your heart loves, be cast; aghast! in fire!

Living can't see afterlife which weakens...

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Life is a great dream         
What a first rate dream      

 

Sleep...

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In hushed strides silver threads tonight unfold again,
my longing on trampled soil to be rolled again.

Beneath maple leaves my silent flower shivers,
scarlet bed of withering...

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What Happened to Them?
by Nasir Kazmi
loose translation by Michael R. Burch

Those who came ashore, what happened to them?
Those who sailed away, what happened to them?

Those...

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Strange Currents
by Amir Khusrow
loose translation by Michael R. Burch 

O Khusrow, the river of love
creates strange currents—
the one who would surface invariably drowns,
while the one...

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Oh, Death, why do people fear You so much,
can you say why the living dread Your touch?

Death, You are how mortal existence ends,
yet few can...

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White, my shadow is white, you are in me
Light, I am full of light, you are in me 

Modes of living creates chaos and menace...

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Now I was born in the last century
Dorn into a world of diversity
And I've grown into this sinful sphere
Full of disappointments, savagery and fear
Now my...

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Instantly fell in love with you dear, I am
Constantly thinking of life, with no fear, I am 

In general life is full of chaos and...

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The Death ………” Azrael” 

I am afraid of Death until he is here.
  Then I will go with him without any fear.
He will be...

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Alone at home on a stormy night
You knocked at my door
I opened, but saw no one
You whispered to my ears
I listened, but heard nothing

A strange...

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   Panacea
       
Panacea…       
Goodbye, my love, do not fear, I am...

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Dum -- -- -- Dum -- -- -- Dum -- -- --, the moonlight bell,
Beyond the city noise of cars I overhear the moonlight bell....

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I know you, I know your thought,
I won't be intimidated by their sunny
Red blazing eyes that hurts minds.
My ink might not be better now but
I...

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