In My Own Way
In My Own Way - form Summary
Ghazal's Couplets of Longing
This poem is a ghazal composed of autonomous couplets that deliver brief, intense scenes of love, torment, and self-reflection. The speaker moves between addressing the heart, the beloved and social figures such as a cupbearer and rivals, shifting from wounded pride and regret to defiant consolation. Recurring images of ruin, entrapment and reversed fortunes show the poet turning personal failure into an aesthetic stance, making loss productive. The closing couplet registers modesty amid other poets—an honest, resigned claim to a limited but sincere voice rather than grand public triumph.
Read Complete AnalysesIn my presence when there was mention of you, my tormented heart I closely cleaved unto. If one swears, should be upon Zulekha's fate, her slave was superior to the head of state. Ruined once, compared with mosques, had taverns been, then Saaqi's heady eyes avenged, reversed the scene. In the street, the crooked one, evaded me, nor to greetings did respond, straightforwardly. Captor, you heartlessness I will make you regret, when zest for being ensnared traps me in your net. In my own way I have dealt with love you see, all my life I made my failures work for me. In a corner, Miir, although amongst poets I be, yet my voice does not eclipse the earth entirely.
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