Like a Bubble
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Ghazal of Restless Longing
This ghazal frames desire and loss through short, self-contained couplets that juxtapose fleeting life with vivid sensory images: soft lips, a brow like written poem, a burned heart, monsoon tears and wine-like eyes. The form matters: each couplet offers a distinct instance of longing or complaint directed at the beloved, and the poet’s takhallus Miir appears in the closing couplet, a conventional ghazal move that personalizes the voice. The compact, aphoristic structure reinforces the poem’s melancholic, dreamlike feel and its emphasis on transience and unfulfilled desire.
Read Complete AnalysesMy life is like a bubble now, mirage-like appears this show. The softness of her lips is close, to velvet petals of a rose. Do let your heart's eye see this world, this is but a dreamlike state unfurled. Repeatedly to her address, I go, lo, such is my distress. Your brow inscribed upon your skin, a line of poetry akin. When I spoke out, she did complain, "that derelict is here again". This heart long burnt is sorrow's hell, there is a barbecue like smell. Just as a monsoon cloud appears, these eyes of mine are full of tears. Miir, in her half-opened eyes there is the fullness of wine's heady bliss.
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