Thread: Write a Ghazal Poem

Okay, Modern Ghazal's have less rules, so if you wanna play but wanna start of easy, it's a fun exersize:

5-15 couplets linked only associatively and it's cool to put your "name" in the last couplet.

Once you've got your feet wet, these guidlines are for the more daring:

A Persian Ghazal has more rules

PoetryNet: The Ghazal

Again, it's 5-15 couplets. The form looks like this:

Couplet one:
---------------------------------------------rhyme A + refrain
---------------------------------------------rhyme A + refrain
Couplet Two, Three, & so on:
---------------------------------------------------------------
---------------------------------------------rhyme A + refrain

Meter a consistent is metric or syllabic.
No emjambment.
The link lists common themes.

I'll post a modern and more persian influenced Ghazal to show you.

Modern:


Ghazel #1

I was wrapped up in Ethernet cables and tied to my chair
in a tutu and that's why I didn't make it on time.

A little girl was crestfallen when the snow didn't arrive,
everyone else's shipments unloading around her.

The Walmart steamer came to port and beef jerky men
unloaded season 3 of Scrubs on DVD.

She watches Grey's Anatomy with a stolen cat
in her lap in a house made of orange bricks.

I get thick headed when I think about going to work
and going to heaven.

On her day off, she dances and dances in frothing pink.
I, Katze the Mighty, hate pink. I like frothing.





With syllabic count, rhyming, and refrain (but changing rhymes... frankly, I'm just not that good to have the same rhyme throughout!):

Ghazal #54

She’s doing it, the waiting room fidget, again.
Medical history? Just fudge it again.

The seismic hallway blinks a burnt out bulb.
Pipes between floors corroded with black mold, again.

Soft canvas shoes pace the linoleum.
An accountant takes a snifter of rum, again.

The sun wafts through a polarized lens.
“Lonely me” is the cry of cactus wrens, again.

Lackluster terrain begs sterility,
I, Kay, dream of yet another city, again.