Write Ghazal Poems

It's about love, is abhorred aggression in literature
Keep within due limits words' compassion in literature

It should feel like real even if it is mere a...

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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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When we are together, we are a sight to see – Sisters!
Things always seem just right when I can have with me – sisters.

One named...

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Oh! sweet verses of love, how gaily you recite tonight
Ballad of a pretty woman, lauding her knight tonight.

Rewarding entreaty, granting wish of love’s fantasy,
Tolling bells...

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When tongue is silent, but muse is chanting - that's poetry.
When we write what the heart has been asking - that's poetry.

As dawn's hues glisten...

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No stars tonight, yet eyes transcend towards bright moonlight.
Oh Moon, without words, we converse in lone quiet moonlight.

Angst of two hearts apart, shows in somber...

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 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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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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DEATH BEGATS NEW LIFE
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From her heart, earth bleeds molten death, no life!
Time passes, death-inviting, begs new life.

Flora seeking fertile soil, frugal needs,
finds nurture in the...

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FICTION WRITE FOR CONTEST

Salty tears fell from my blue eyes, when I kissed you goodbye
I begged please don’t drive till sunrise, when I kissed you...

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candid is veiled virgin's synode tonight
Amble clouds gamble goblets filled tonight

Malidictions valid stand by nay firm
Untill a streak dismay  wounds tonight

Love's debauchery who can...

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Please catch me a Ghazal
And don't even ask me why
It's something I've just wanted
someday before I die

More docile than a lion
More graceful than a giraffe...

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I play with words, but I’m not sure why I write poetry.
One day I just felt the need to try! I write poetry!

It fills my...

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Why do sad tears come to me at night? Life is a journey,
is that my beloved in the light? Life is a journey.

Oh, turn...

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The path to the wisdom

I was in love with a flower; now I am in love with light.
I escaped from pain and sorrow, even though...

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