Reflections and realization after decades of worldly sojourn |
FAREWELL:a ghazal--Award Winner No passion, no fire now. I wish to retire now. World, thy pleasures do no more Kindle a desire now. New relation or friendship, Not for me to sire now. No more do I wish to live. Life is a satire now. I sold myself to Satan. May Him be the buyer now. I had strayed away from Lord. I wish to go higher now. My friend I bid farewell! Khalish, light the pyre now. * Awarded prize in Lady Rook’s Monthly Poem Maker Contest for December 2004-- "Invalid Item" * A ghazal is characterized by couplets in which the last 1-3 words of both lines of the first couplet and each second line of the subsequent couplets are repeated as refrain [called radeef], while the word immediately preceding the refrain has to be a rhyming one and is called kaafia. Please note that each couplet in a ghazal is supposed to be complete poem in itself, rather like a three line haiku. Modern ghazal writers often tend to have a continuous theme through various couplets. However, this is by no means necessary or required. For a detailed note on ghazal, please see "WHAT IS A GHAZAL AND HOW TO WRITE IT?" |