CALL OF THE HEART--a ghazal

Describes the thoughts of a person who has lost his love.

CALL OF THE HEART


Her memory calls today.
My heart, for her, tolls today.

Every tender thought of her,
Verily enthralls today.

Her images haunt me as
I look at the walls today.

In the empty house her voice
Echoes in the halls today.

The same scent pervades the air,
Her memory mauls today.

As I dreamt of her I felt,
As if manna falls today.

Khalish, I can’t forget her.
In my heart she crawls today.


* A ghazal consists of couplets in which the opening line and the even lines end with a refrain, which is preceded by a rhyming word. For a detailed note on ghazal, please see "WHAT IS A GHAZAL AND HOW TO WRITE IT?" . A ghazal often carries the poet's signature in the last couplet. My pen name, Khalish, is an Urdu word that means pain or ache.

* Written in 7 syllables per line format


M C Gupta ‘Khalish’
28 June 2003