Napowrimo: here’s today’s totally optional prompt!
The ghazal (pronounced kind of like “huzzle,” with a particularly husky “h” at the beginning) is a form that originates in Arabic poetry, and is often used for love poems. Ghazals commonly consist of five to fifteen couplets that are independent from each other but are nonetheless linked abstractly in their theme; and more concretely by their form. And what is that form? In English ghazals, the usual constraints are that:
- the lines all have to be of around the same length (though formal meter/syllable-counts are not employed); and
- both lines of the first couplet end on the same word or words, which then form a refrain that is echoed at the end of each succeeding couplet.
Another aspect of the traditional ghazal form that has become popular in English is having the poet’s own name (or a reference to the poet – like a nickname) appear in the final couplet.
My take:
Day
Eight-Napowrimo- Seeking You- A Ghazal
I wandered through the streets of my city
looking for you
Soaking in the sun, drenching in the rain,
immersed in you
**The poem has been removed to facilitate for submissions. Thank you for visiting.**
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