LOVE’S SUSPENSE—a ghazal

LOVE’S SUSPENSE—a ghazal


My love I’m going to meet today.
Everything is so sweet today.

I got up sweating in the night
Wondering about the heat today.

I dreamt that I was with my love
Under a silken sheet today.

When I meet my love this evening
My heart will miss a beat today.

My life has been disorderly
But I must be discreet today.

Oh! I just can’t wait any more.
Wish I could fly the street today.

Love’s suspense is killing Khalish.
I want to make it neat today.


* A ghazal consists of 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 is a rhyming one and is called monorhyme or kaafia.

* For a detailed note on ghazal and examples and links to my ghazals, please see: "WHAT IS A GHAZAL AND HOW TO WRITE IT?" 


M C Gupta ‘Khalish’
9 October 2004
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