<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460384" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>0008 A Ghazal about Ghazals</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A poet friend spoke of a poetic form called a ghazal<br>and said, why don’t you try to write a poem like a ghazal? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">They’ve been revived in recent years in English, in fact<br>there’s even a periodical devoted to the ghazal…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and you’re rather keen on that mystical poetry stuff? <br>and love and such? Why don’t you try the ghazal? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">My usual reaction to suggestions like that is, no..<br>but I googled Wikipedia out of curiosity, on ghazal</div><div style="margin:10px 0">which told me everything about it except<br>why anyone should choose to write a ghazal..</div><div style="margin:10px 0">which as you see, is such a restrictive poetic form..<br>And then I found a passing mention about the word ghazal</div><div style="margin:10px 0">it said that the name came from the cry of the gazelle…<br>and that, told me more than anything about the ghazal…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">since a gazelle, like any animal, bereft of the power of speech<br>and thus of poetry, is the very essence of the ghazal</div><div style="margin:10px 0">in that, whether from pain, from danger, from love<br>- or visited by God - cries the same cry of the gazelle – the ghazal; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">as poets, seeking to express the inexpressible, are as limited<br>in their success, as crying animals, in their way – the ghazal</div><div style="margin:10px 0">may thus be seen as every poem that ever poet wrote; <br>crying within itself, one cry alone...So the ghazal</div><div style="margin:10px 0">must choose the human word for its repeated call <br>with care... ah! yearning heart! ... for One or All! ... Ghazal!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460384" data-title="0008 A Ghazal about Ghazals de Michael Shepherd" data-description="A poet friend spoke of a poetic form called a ghazal and said, why don’t you try to write a poem like a ghazal? They’ve been revived in recent years in English, in fact there’s even a periodical devoted to the ghazal… and you’re rathe..."></div> </div> </div>

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