WHAT A BEAUTIFUL.......—a ghazal

WHAT A BEAUTIFUL SILKEN HEAD OF HAIR!—a ghazal
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What a beautiful silken head of hair!
You add beauty to this ebony chair.

Like moon against a dark cloud in the sky,
Jet black locks of hair shine on the skin fair.

How much I wish to touch those tender locks!
Shall I disturb a lion in its lair?

Truly inviting are those shiny strands.
For those having fluffy heads, I have flair.

A day will come when my love will fill it,
Though now to touch that head I do not dare.

When these head and heart are truly my own,
I won’t have Khalish in the world a care.


• Written in pentameter.
• Initially written as entry 497128 (now deleted) in "LOVE POEMS" , Love Poems. Posted as the present item on 11 April 2009.


M C Gupta ‘Khalish’
23 March 2007