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Friday, 14 August 2009

Welcome to Gino's Ghazal Blog!

Browse this blog for reflections about ghazals, poetry, music, fiction, nonfiction, ideas . . . . also announcements and information about The Ghazal Page: please visit it. Your suggestions, comments, and observations are welcome.

Aug 14, 2009 11:09:03 AM | About this Blog

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Ghazals: After Her Passing

by Chris Mooney Singh

"Her passport-photo pouch, I flipped from bed to floor,
her several faces stared before they stopped." - outstanding. A flip-animation of a personality too soon stopped.

"Why hunt for her among the silent trees?
Her heart stopped. Yours must start again." - the mind and heart keep returning to some spot that is still animated by memories however silent is has become. Very vivid imagery and the last line a good link with the first ghazal.

Posted by: Fergus | Sunday, 05 June 2011 at 01:22 PM

Ghazal after the death of a son

by Jean Hallingstad

"So this my name foretold, God's bitter gift
Of sharpest love all sundered, wanting you."

The mind cannot prepare the heart for a loss that turns the order of things on its head.

Posted by: Fergus | Sunday, 05 June 2011 at 01:08 PM

Is this the correct place to comment on individual ghazals?

Posted by: Fergus | Monday, 09 May 2011 at 12:21 PM

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