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Ghazal #104 from Ghazals For The Friend, by Bill Gannett
GHAZAL TO FAST FOOD RAPTURE In our lost land of fast food and bad breath, We pray for the Rapture to bless our death! Our Resurrection will achieve liftoff- We will look down on those below and scoff. A mass … Continue reading
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Rumi Quatrain, #419 Foruzanfar
I said, because of my longing for you, I’m nuts! Do I see your chains of curls in my sleep, or not? He replied, shut up! Why spin a yarn about this: Crazy and asleep? What phooey, O one well … Continue reading
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Ghazal #79 from Ghazals For The Friend, by Bill Gannett
Mother Kali is beautiful and ferocious beyond belief; Approach her as a lover, and you will know soon enough! Kali is not a mother who preserves the status quo: She loves to destroy all that impedes her creative flow. Kali … Continue reading
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Rumi Quatrain, #9 Foruzanfar
This fire of longing cooks me, To the bar each night drags me; With winos gives me a seat- And where only drunks know me! This quatrain is about the kharabat- a place of ruin where love for God is … Continue reading
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Rumi Quatrain, #1321 Foruzanfar
You left, and since you left, I weep tears of blood, And heaving anguish turns my cries into a flood. No! When you left, my very eyes followed you And because now are lost, how am I to even sob? … Continue reading
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Ghazal #124 from Ghazals For The Friend, by Bill Gannett
The dawn breeze kicks up the dust in lover’s lane; My gritty speech praises the Rend’s lonely pain. I reach for the bottle rolling across the floor- My arm can reach so far, and then no more. Where is the … Continue reading
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Ghazal #77 from Ghazals For The Friend, by Bill Gannett
We swear by the earth that supports us, And by the dust that crowns us at last. By the breath that infuses us with life, And inspires with frank and honest strife. By the fire that gives body and mind … Continue reading
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Top Ten Reasons To Fire Bhau Kalchuri as Chairman…(subject to revision)
1. Promulgator of the “Kalchuri Dynasty” fantasy on the holiest day of the Baba calendar, Amartithi- 31st January, on Meherabad Hill, babbling to an audience of tens of thousands priceless self-serving trash about imaginary self-importance. 2. Serial lying about the … Continue reading
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Ghazal #121 from Ghazals For The Friend, by Bill Gannett
The ocean way is a trackless path with no shore, an infinite horizon where the mind is insecure. All the desperate search for stable identity vomits with longing for permanent solidity. Such immensity of rolling water and salty air gives … Continue reading
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Rumi quatrain, #1719 Foruzanfar
On that day you passed by this house of drunks And fluttered such amorous sideways looks, Those who used to turn the world upside-down You stood on their heads- like ordinary jerks! روزی بخرابات گذر میکردی کژ کژ بکرمشه نظر … Continue reading
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