Comments for Darvish Khan Writes http://www.darvishkhanwrites.com Ghazals, Poetry, Articles and Translates from the Persian Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:46:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= Comment on The brave wolf of Gubbio returns to growl at thieves by Max http://www.darvishkhanwrites.com/2012/01/23/the-brave-wolf-of-gubbio-returns-to-growl-at-thieves/comment-page-1/#comment-595 Max Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:46:15 +0000 http://www.darvishkhanwrites.com/?p=3599#comment-595 Here is the story of St. Francis and the Wolf of Gubbio, for anyone who does not know/remember it: http://www.anaflora.com/articles/saints-sages/saint-1.html Dear Darvish, I appreciate the three poems I just read (will not go and read some of your Hafiz translations here, too). I very much like the way you created a structure here that makes the last line cut so deeply! I'm currently reading essays about the ghazal form. Just finished the Introduction to the book RAVISHING DISUNITIES, which you must know of. I notice that your "English ghazals" are more in the Brabazon style, basically rhymed couplets. From your knowledge, then, that does indeed qualify as a ghazal? In the reading I've been doing, I've gotten fascinated with the "refrain line" ghazals that also have a rhyme in the 2nd line of each couplet. I can imagine whole audiences in India chanting the refrain line together! It's currently got my imagination flared, and I'm starting to try to write such poems. Do you write in that form, too, or do you find it unnecessary? Happy writing, happy living, AMBKJ! Max Here is the story of St. Francis and the Wolf of Gubbio, for anyone who does not know/remember it: http://www.anaflora.com/articles/saints-sages/saint-1.html

Dear Darvish, I appreciate the three poems I just read (will not go and read some of your Hafiz translations here, too). I very much like the way you created a structure here that makes the last line cut so deeply!

I’m currently reading essays about the ghazal form. Just finished the Introduction to the book RAVISHING DISUNITIES, which you must know of. I notice that your “English ghazals” are more in the Brabazon style, basically rhymed couplets. From your knowledge, then, that does indeed qualify as a ghazal? In the reading I’ve been doing, I’ve gotten fascinated with the “refrain line” ghazals that also have a rhyme in the 2nd line of each couplet. I can imagine whole audiences in India chanting the refrain line together! It’s currently got my imagination flared, and I’m starting to try to write such poems. Do you write in that form, too, or do you find it unnecessary? Happy writing, happy living, AMBKJ! Max

]]> Comment on Ten Questions for The Chairman and Trustees of The AMBPPCT Concerning The Memorial Spike by Dan Sparks http://www.darvishkhanwrites.com/2011/09/15/ten-questions-for-the-chairman-and-trustees-of-the-ambppct-concerning-the-memorial-spike/comment-page-1/#comment-413 Dan Sparks Fri, 16 Sep 2011 03:45:14 +0000 http://www.darvishkhanwrites.com/?p=2886#comment-413 The beginning (perhaps) of a discussion that will interest me as interested persons respond honestly from the heart... The beginning (perhaps) of a discussion that will interest me as interested persons respond honestly from the heart…

]]> Comment on What price the lie that cuddles pride? by John Isaacs-Young http://www.darvishkhanwrites.com/2011/09/11/what-price-the-lie-that-cuddles-pride/comment-page-1/#comment-406 John Isaacs-Young Mon, 12 Sep 2011 02:38:47 +0000 http://www.darvishkhanwrites.com/?p=2866#comment-406 Nice 9/11 piece Bill. Just got through watching a longish video put out by Engineers and Architects for 9/11 Truth. After going through technical stuff they included some psychologists and Rev Griffin talking about pride getting in the way of acknowledging certain facts; facts that concern the dark side of ones own nature and dark-side facts concerning of ones government. Nice 9/11 piece Bill. Just got through watching a longish video put out by Engineers and Architects for 9/11 Truth. After going through technical stuff they included some psychologists and Rev Griffin talking about pride getting in the way of acknowledging certain facts; facts that concern the dark side of ones own nature and dark-side facts concerning of ones government.

]]> Comment on From the very beginning to the very end, the Master by Jagrati Buggia http://www.darvishkhanwrites.com/2011/08/23/from-the-very-beginning-to-the-very-end-the-master/comment-page-1/#comment-383 Jagrati Buggia Thu, 25 Aug 2011 16:20:39 +0000 http://www.darvishkhanwrites.com/?p=2717#comment-383 Truely moving Billji... Thanks! Truely moving Billji… Thanks!

]]> Comment on Review of “Stealing Hafiz”, by Rick M. Chapman by Kendra Crossen Burroughs http://www.darvishkhanwrites.com/2011/04/24/review-of-stealing-hafiz-by-rick-m-chapman/comment-page-1/#comment-290 Kendra Crossen Burroughs Sun, 24 Apr 2011 16:40:23 +0000 http://www.darvishkhanwrites.com/?p=2043#comment-290 Good points, Bill. I agree with you in wishing that Ladinsky had given himself the byline for his inspired verse--not only because of the controversy over versions versus translations but because I believe he deserves the credit as a poet in his own right. The only thing I question is your perhaps inadvertent implication that Danny's claim that his verse is Hafiz is dishonest. Danny honestly believes his verse is Hafiz, and he tells how Eruch encouraged him in his work, which clearly adds to his conviction. Since it's hopeless to argue with him, I take the view that his work, like that of Barks (who also has versioned Hafiz inaccurately, according to an Iranian friend), has paved the way for English speakers to enter the world of Persian poetry. Good points, Bill. I agree with you in wishing that Ladinsky had given himself the byline for his inspired verse–not only because of the controversy over versions versus translations but because I believe he deserves the credit as a poet in his own right. The only thing I question is your perhaps inadvertent implication that Danny’s claim that his verse is Hafiz is dishonest. Danny honestly believes his verse is Hafiz, and he tells how Eruch encouraged him in his work, which clearly adds to his conviction. Since it’s hopeless to argue with him, I take the view that his work, like that of Barks (who also has versioned Hafiz inaccurately, according to an Iranian friend), has paved the way for English speakers to enter the world of Persian poetry.

]]> Comment on nietzsche had it right when he declared god is dead… by Ben Leet http://www.darvishkhanwrites.com/2011/01/03/nietzsche-had-it-right-when-he-declared-god-is-dead/comment-page-1/#comment-77 Ben Leet Tue, 04 Jan 2011 20:57:35 +0000 http://www.darvishkhanwrites.com/?p=1290#comment-77 I went looking for the Nietzsche quote, and found age of the sages.org had it. "Who gave us the sponge to wipe away the entire horizon?" Not bad. Brabazon talked like this too. Today the head of Punjab province in Pakistan was assassinated by a Muslim zealot who was angry that he had commuted the death sentence of a Christian woman who had slandered Mohammed. God seems to have a precarious life in all religions. Have you not heard of that madman who lit a lantern in the bright morning hours, ran to the market-place, and cried incessantly: "I am looking for God! I am looking for God!" As many of those who did not believe in God were standing together there, he excited considerable laughter. Have you lost him, then? said one. Did he lose his way like a child? said another. Or is he hiding? Is he afraid of us? Has he gone on a voyage? or emigrated? Thus they shouted and laughed. The madman sprang into their midst and pierced them with his glances. "Where has God gone?" he cried. "I shall tell you. We have killed him - you and I. We are his murderers. But how have we done this? How were we able to drink up the sea? Who gave us the sponge to wipe away the entire horizon? What did we do when we unchained the earth from its sun? Whither is it moving now? Whither are we moving now? Away from all suns? Are we not perpetually falling? Backward, sideward, forward, in all directions? Is there any up or down left? Are we not straying as through an infinite nothing? Do we not feel the breath of empty space? Has it not become colder? Is it not more and more night coming on all the time? Must not lanterns be lit in the morning? Do we not hear anything yet of the noise of the gravediggers who are burying God? I went looking for the Nietzsche quote, and found age of the sages.org had it.
“Who gave us the sponge to wipe away the entire horizon?” Not bad. Brabazon talked like this too. Today the head of Punjab province in Pakistan was assassinated by a Muslim zealot who was angry that he had commuted the death sentence of a Christian woman who had slandered Mohammed. God seems to have a precarious life in all religions.

Have you not heard of that madman who lit a lantern in the bright morning hours, ran to the market-place, and cried incessantly: “I am looking for God! I am looking for God!”
As many of those who did not believe in God were standing together there, he excited considerable laughter. Have you lost him, then? said one. Did he lose his way like a child? said another. Or is he hiding? Is he afraid of us? Has he gone on a voyage? or emigrated? Thus they shouted and laughed. The madman sprang into their midst and pierced them with his glances.

“Where has God gone?” he cried. “I shall tell you. We have killed him – you and I. We are his murderers. But how have we done this? How were we able to drink up the sea? Who gave us the sponge to wipe away the entire horizon? What did we do when we unchained the earth from its sun? Whither is it moving now? Whither are we moving now? Away from all suns? Are we not perpetually falling? Backward, sideward, forward, in all directions? Is there any up or down left? Are we not straying as through an infinite nothing? Do we not feel the breath of empty space? Has it not become colder? Is it not more and more night coming on all the time? Must not lanterns be lit in the morning? Do we not hear anything yet of the noise of the gravediggers who are burying God?

]]> Comment on the magian elder has long black curly hair by harold jamison http://www.darvishkhanwrites.com/2011/01/02/the-magian-elder-has-long-black-curly-hair/comment-page-1/#comment-76 harold jamison Tue, 04 Jan 2011 19:05:00 +0000 http://www.darvishkhanwrites.com/?p=1286#comment-76 The second line is wonderful. Not saying the whole poem isn,t just that the second moves me. harold The second line is wonderful. Not saying the whole poem isn,t just that the second moves me. harold

]]> Comment on the reluctance to act… by John Isaacs-Young http://www.darvishkhanwrites.com/2010/12/20/the-reluctance-to-act/comment-page-1/#comment-62 John Isaacs-Young Wed, 22 Dec 2010 05:06:27 +0000 http://www.darvishkhanwrites.com/?p=1172#comment-62 Bill, this struck me as a nicely nuanced and subtle poem. Thanks for sharing it on video. I am thinking that roles such as chairman, trustees, the murdered brother could be populated with a number of different possible historical characters or some persons closer to home or just left blank. John I-Y Bill, this struck me as a nicely nuanced and subtle poem. Thanks for sharing it on video. I am thinking that roles such as chairman, trustees, the murdered brother could be populated with a number of different possible historical characters or some persons closer to home or just left blank. John I-Y

]]> Comment on no man knows his father… by bill gannett http://www.darvishkhanwrites.com/2010/08/15/no-man-knows-his-father/comment-page-1/#comment-44 bill gannett Tue, 24 Aug 2010 20:05:44 +0000 http://www.darvishkhanwrites.com/?p=898#comment-44 You must be enjoying the Adriatic! You must be enjoying the Adriatic!

]]> Comment on the lover gone crazy… by Lewis Gannett http://www.darvishkhanwrites.com/2010/08/16/the-lover-gone-crazy/comment-page-1/#comment-39 Lewis Gannett Wed, 18 Aug 2010 06:00:19 +0000 http://www.darvishkhanwrites.com/?p=916#comment-39 Bill, your post is great. I HATE this reply corral. It's totally unnecessary. Why? Are you capturing data for profit? I advise: A different format. Bill, your post is great. I HATE this reply corral. It’s totally unnecessary. Why? Are you capturing data for profit? I advise: A different format.

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