FAREWELL:a ghazal--Award Winner

FAREWELL:a ghazal--Award Winner


No passion, no fire now.
I wish to retire now.

World, thy pleasures do no more
Kindle a desire now.

New relation or friendship,
Not for me to sire now.

No more do I wish to live.
Life is a satire now.

I sold myself to Satan.
May Him be the buyer now.

I had strayed away from Lord.
I wish to go higher now.

My friend I bid farewell!
Khalish, light the pyre now.



* Awarded prize in Lady Rook’s Monthly Poem Maker Contest for December 2004-- "Invalid Item" 


* A ghazal is characterized by 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 has to be a rhyming one and is called kaafia.


Please note that each couplet in a ghazal is supposed to be complete poem in itself, rather like a three line haiku. Modern ghazal writers often tend to have a continuous theme through various couplets. However, this is by no means necessary or required.

For a detailed note on ghazal, please see "WHAT IS A GHAZAL AND HOW TO WRITE IT?"