Grief Ghazal Poems

Is this how love’s day spring suddenly becomes night?
I’m a helpless victim imprisoned in the night.

How many souls have you captured oh, enchantress?
Your purple garden...

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Ghazal form poetry contest
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The empty house is silent, I can't see
Blinded by grief, it has overcome me

Your voice is not...

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I walk the cemetery all alone with me,
loving each ancient, gnarled, beautiful perfect tree.

The grief in this graveyard hangs like a green curtain,
the grass-...

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Frenetically I rest in her guest room.
I think of her quiet hospital room.

I’ve laid my head on this pillow before.
I toss, turn, and pray, in...

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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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My heavy heart placed a stone on my eyes of sorrow
Unshed tears collected in the cauldron of deep sorrow. 

Your demise had shattered my heart,...

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Dying old leaves flutter in breeze,
Trees take it easy, who’d believe?

Grey leaves fall that green grow on trees,
Man grieves, trees cannot this believe.

Light leaves from...

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To my sorrows I wish to thank,
The grief that galled me, wish to thank—

Adversities that chased all life,
To my sad state I wish to thank.

Troubles,...

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Gone! Grief ends with an acceptance sigh
Glum death, another feigned forbearance sigh…

Reining-in fervent sobs in public ceremony
Rites by rote dull the innate in a perseverance...

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Life is a great dream         
What a first rate dream      

 

Sleep...

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I am not “me”


I am not "me"; the "me" is gone; where is she?
Nowhere is "me," I can't find "me"; where is "me"?
I am so...

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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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Divine wine…

Pleasantness is within me, I need more of that wine.
  What a night I hope it be, I need more of that wine.
You...

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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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A heavy heart places a stone on the gloomy eyes 
Unshed tears collect in the core of deep sorrow. 

A distress blow breaks the mind,...

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