Tag: ghazal

• A spectre calls

  Today I stumbled upon a ghost

  An accidental apparition

  Best not give it too much thought though

  Or it’ll move into the loft

  And exorcists are hard to come by these days

  Aug 1, 2025

  free verse, ghazal, ghosts, history, poetry, Short poem

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• Akhiyan (Bekhudi)

  Beholden to your gaze

  I turn away—into the haze of the afternoon sky

  Or was that all still your eyes?…

  Losing myself…

  Shimmering hues dance and swirl, devilishly,

  as my mind—a dervish—whirls

  into dreams beyond such naïve conjecture.

  …

  Akhiyan (Bekhudi) – “Eyes (Ecstasy of Self-loss)” in Urdu; perception dissolving into surrender, or the gaze that unravels the self.

  May 27, 2025

  eyes, ghazal, poetry, romantic, sufi

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