January 20th, 2006
Absurd Ghazal
How can you call my love absurd?
Ain’t all this rotten world absurd?
You criticise every thing I say,
I call this insolence absurd.
You love another guy you think,
You think my faith in love absurd.
Haven’t you seen sweet flowers, trees?
You call my laziness absurd?
Were I to work, for money and fame,
Won’t be my selfishness absurd?
I live alone, I do not work,
Your working every day absurd.
If you ask me, my precious stone,
I’ll call your beating heart absurd.
If not for you, your sight, your touch,
Koonal would leave this world absurd.
-Kunal Goel
Tags: Absurd english ghazal, Love
Dolphin says:
Good poem ….looks like my life’s story
January 20th, 2006 at 10:54 am
Kunal Goel says:
haha
January 20th, 2006 at 10:55 am
ER@sUrf3R says:
Life is full of absurdities
January 20th, 2006 at 11:25 pm
ER@sUrf3R says:
and yet, even the most absurd, weird and bizarre things can be absolutely normal
January 20th, 2006 at 11:25 pm
Anusha Mujumdar says:
Beautifully absurd, yet so familiar.
January 21st, 2006 at 07:56 pm
Neha Mujumdar says:
its dumb if you ask me.
January 22nd, 2006 at 08:39 pm
Kunal Goel says:
some readers might not understand why I call it a ghazal.
Ghazal is a collection of Sher’s (independent two-line poems), in which there is atleast one ‘Matla’, one ‘Maqta’ and all the Sher’s are of same ‘Beher’ and have the same ‘Kaafiyaa’ and ‘Radif’.
This poem satisfies the definition completely.
January 22nd, 2006 at 09:12 pm
DeEp says:
it satisfies my hunger of knowing more about ghazals as well
January 22nd, 2006 at 09:51 pm
Priya says:
Are flowers really being lazy I wonder?
Or are the busy wowing the bees I wonder?
Is death the answer to all problems I wonder?
Would I live with memory of my love than die with grief I Wonder?
Do the week and the lazy die very young I wonder?
January 23rd, 2006 at 06:43 pm
Kunal Goel says:
excellent reply Priya!
January 23rd, 2006 at 11:23 pm
Abhilash says:
Does it really satisfy ALL the conditions of a Ghazal or is it one of those neo-ghazals?
One more thing is, a classical real Ghazal MUST have only 7 shers:wink:
Kidding….great work!
July 27th, 2006 at 07:03 pm
Kunal Goel says:
yes it satisfies ALL the conditions of a Ghazal
July 27th, 2006 at 08:27 pm