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Rated: 13+ · Poetry · Entertainment · #956113
Where ignorance is bliss, it is folly to be wise—the happy world of fools!
FOLLY—a ghazal


Why only April folly?
Why limit and kill folly?

Why intelligence prevail?
In every head drill folly!

Knowledge may keep on changing;
Permanent is still folly.

I cannot suffer the nerds;
Always does me thrill folly.

One may cut a wisdom tooth,
But end never will folly.

Let the fool, the meek prevail;
We must always spill folly.

Let us wipe out brainy ones.
Let’s in this world swill folly.

What a foolish ghazal this!
Khalish this is shrill folly!



* Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
- Elbert Hubbard


• The silliest woman can manage a clever man, but it needs a very clever
woman to manage a fool. - Rudyard Kipling


• Written as a ghazal consisting of a series of potentially independent couplets [each being potentially regarded as an independent poem in itself] which must have a monorhyme and refrain in the opening line and all even lines. Refrain refers to a recurring word or phrase. Monorhyme refers to a single rhyming word immediately preceding the refrain. Line length in syllables depends upon the poet’s choice but must be constant throughout. The present ghazal has been written in 7-7-7-7 format. For a detailed note on ghazal, please see "WHAT IS A GHAZAL AND HOW TO WRITE IT?Open in new Window..


* The word Khalish included in the last couplet is the pen name of the poet. Such inclusion is a common practice in classical ghazal writing. Khalish is an Urdu word meaning ache or pain.


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M C Gupta ‘Khalish’
Created: 2 April 2005
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