Sea Ghazal Poems

Tonn Chliodhna
My lover haunts here, he hears me plead
with each ninth wave, I break and bleed.

I left Tir Tairngine, for Ciabhad’s love,
jealous MacLir would intercede

That...

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Right in front should evil dare, no words still,
Even if beyond you bear, no words still.

In market square a girl is tormented,
You can’t bear her...

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Timeless… 

If it’s far, look within; all is within you.
Within you is the world, you know, it is true.
The path for in and out is...

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No beautiful face on sale; Bazar is out of order
Fairyland - O dear goddess Ishtar! - is out of order.

I was alone at home, we'd...

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Stormy sea causing loss of keel,
Ours is a journey not of own will.

Sent in with a set destiny,
Man marches on to fate’s beating drill. 

Life,...

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To enjoy what we have if is joy,
Waiting for what we’ve not too is joy.

One plus one makes two, tells a maths rule, 
Minus one...

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From cuckoo’s calls where’d her echo?
Far from its coast where’d the sea go?

Space-bestirred, time’s sucked by black hole.
Where would the vicissitudes go?
 
If breath ceases,...

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Chilly mornings color us all in whispers of frost,
Enlivening spirits to feel pleasantly star crossed

Breathing hope through the silent dawn’s beckoning,
Miraculous music praises and raises...

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Life is a great dream         
What a first rate dream      

 

Sleep...

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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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The lovely lilt of waves.
Keen lullaby of waves.

Idyllic fingernails —
the crest of each curt wave.

Her blue diamond eyes.
Kind blinking of the waves.

Soft palms against the...

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A flight to the past and a thought forever.
Inside the heart, there is a rot forever.

A sly arrow hit the gazelle betrayed.
Stuck to a tree,...

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Reading in bed, she has a drink, and the ripple widens.
A drop falls in the kitchen sink, and the ripple widens.

Supported, a little girl in...

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There’s a strange Tune that invades my time alone, defined as Myself.
I can’t figure out the Essence of the Moan, defined as Myself.

Call it happiness,...

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