Originally an Arabic verse form dealing with loss and romantic love, medieval Persian poets embraced the ghazal, eventually making it their own. Consisting of syntactically and grammatically complete couplets, the form also has an intricate rhyme scheme. Each couplet ends on the same word or phrase (the radif), and is preceded by the coupletโs rhyming…
Regret with a cold gush of fright arrives: Autumn, suddenly, with all its might arrives! Not often: but every-time it rains all night; At dawn, a letter (you could never write) arrives. You may order every clock to turn back on Time But the Tomorrow, however, despite arrives. At last, the wait will be over…
When the war is over And you can come over To our side I will let you poke Your finger Into the holesโ left By bullets and pellets And you will feel how much they hurtโ Still. When the war is over I will let you smell Primroses growing timidly out of ruins And you…
No names, no claims-a wandering carefree as birds: One day (some day!) we will be free as birds! At dusk, to peck at what remains of their day All prodigals return to some tree as birds. From the meadows of reminiscences a drove Of regret rises: as poetry! as birds! Now that they have renamed…