The Masnavi of Giti and Saeed - Footnotes and Glossary Part two
Cultural and Social Terms
Idol: In Persian poetry, often refers to the beloved, particularly one who is non-Muslim. The term carries complex connotations of forbidden desire and spiritual challenge.
Veil: Refers both to the physical head covering and the metaphysical veil between the material and spiritual worlds in Sufi thought.
Fate's Wheel: The wheel of fortune or destiny
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glossary, cute love,
Form: Prose
The Masnavi of Giti and Saeed - Footnotes and Glossary Part one
Literary and Cultural Terms
Masnavi (also Mathnawi): A classical Persian poetic form consisting of rhyming couplets with a continuous narrative. The most famous example is Rumi's Masnavi-ye Ma'navi (Spiritual Couplets), a foundational work of Sufi literature.
Saqi (also Saqi): The cupbearer or wine-server in Persian poetry, often a beautiful youth who serves wine at gatherings. In Sufi
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Categories:
glossary, cute love,
Form: Prose
G Is For Glossary
Ah
be
come,
dearest
ever
faithful;
genuine,
honest,
in
joyous
kinship;
love
makes
not
only
paradise
quicken;
rest
safe
together
under
virtue's
wings;
X's*
your
Zion
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Categories:
glossary, love, words,
Form: Abecedarian
Glossary
GLOSSARY
Art
suffused
with
the
spirit
of
energy
compels
then
stumbles
amid
& within
the
conceptual
counterpoint
of
the
irresponsible
a
surging sense
of
the possible
inspiring
the
memorable
in
the unusual
NOTE:THIS IS AN OPEN(organic) FORM VERSE using spaces&breaks without grammatical symbols ,the ' open' relies upon 'the one breath limitation' & so inherently requires the 'reader' (reciter) to input and responds thus making this enigmatic form a two way interplay & interpretatIon unique to the moment& changing according
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Categories:
glossary, poetry,
Form: Other
My Glossary
I am on a quest to find my glossary
Have you perhaps seen it today?
An unremarkable paperback
Bearing dog-eared pages and faded tick marks
Bound between scarlet covers
Scarred by forgotten cigarettes and runaway coffee
Glossary
A wonderfully glorious word
Say it with me, if you please
It begins in your throat and ends on the tip of your tongue
Ushered away on
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Categories:
glossary, angst, words, writing,
Form: Free verse
Glossary
amuck - adverb.flailing in all directions, about, around - His ideas ran amuck.
brang – verb, past tense.bring – You ring, you rang, I bring, I brang.
chipps - noun, plural.an asset for selling, a favor owing, and old friend. He relinquished all his chipps to his successor.
defute – verb. to dispute in any defamatory way,
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Categories:
glossary, hilarious, humor, humorous, word
Form: ABC
Glossary Pages
Glossary pages
Glossary pages
sent to us through the ages
rages the young youth
in some irrational truth
memory of decisions
ecliptable transition
total transmission
on a mission
to extradition
conflicts of a traditional past
lying somewhere in the grass
glass elements
of rudimentary science
to sow an alliance
with zcience
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Categories:
glossary, visionary,
Form: I do not know?