FROM LIFE ALL THAT’S NICE IS GONE:ghazal

FROM LIFE ALL THAT’S NICE IS GONE: a ghazal



From life all that’s nice is gone.
From mountains the ice is gone.

Thanks to doctors’ prescription,
From my food all spice is gone.

I can’t afford a new car,
Upward now the price is gone.

Let’s not abandon the game
Even if the dice is gone.

Now that I am an old man,
Khalish all my vice is gone.



• Written in 7-7 format
• For details about ghazal, please view "WHAT IS A GHAZAL AND HOW TO WRITE IT?" 
• Written for The Weekly Poet's Challenge, "Invalid Item" 



M C Gupta ‘Khalish’
22 July 2007