The modern Ghazal, not to be confused with the Arabic classic Ghazal of very long couplets, rhyming. At least six stanzas, with the authors name part of the poem.

The modern is long couplets of extreme imagery, not part of a continuation from one couplet to the next. Classic or modern, a Ghazal is a ghazal.


I stand, tall as your window, shorter than
the beautiful words you said melt into my footsteps.

The urban masculine voices of automobiles
hooting their horns, playing a clomping reggaton.

Simplicity drapped over your arm, your face a pewter
figurine smiling in a white collar blue dress.

Multi shades of green on the white lined broken
spine of a book I can't read while my heart pounds.

Motives of air striking an Oak tree shedding green
against the exhale before we strode, hand in hand, away.

Under the broader shade of moonless night, I still can't
read a broken spine book by the light of your star.

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