The moonlight. Mosquitoes. A terrace. All getting on with their job. Cigars. A suggestion –
- Let's talk in meter. - Why don't we talk in ghazal? - That's fiendish. So last night was an impromptu moonlit mehfil, poets hurling post-dinner shers at each other. A magical night unfortunately unrecorded, a scattered lost homage to Agha Shahid Ali. Who wrote English in the most haunted Urdu. We're freestylin' the sher in English. We're guzzlin' the Ghazal. And it's addictive. And a ghazal strung together, an exquisite corpse, from the unlikeliest of elements. Just waiting for a thunderbolt. Unfortunately, the only sher's I remember from last night are some of mine, and that too, not all. But here goes. It would be fun to continue this… If we walked the waves together Could we, perhaps, stop time tonight? I know you will not believe me If I say, 'The sun won't shine tonight.' If sorrow could muffle like padding None of these clocks would chime tonight. On phone lines crackling with sorrow No voice should whisper, 'I am fine,' tonight. I have already shot the natives. Will you be my gin and lime tonight? The cats must fear for their lives. It seems I have more than nine tonight. If it wasn't for the Greenwich Meridian Would Australia Dream (of) Time tonight? The planes repeat rewind on CNN. I know that I will go blind tonight. As the car sped towards the imminent tree He was glad it was cedar, and not pine tonight. -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, because you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup. http://www.synchroni-cities.blogspot.com/ ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> In low income neighborhoods, 84% do not own computers. At Network for Good, help bridge the Digital Divide! http://us.click.yahoo.com/S.QlOD/3MnJAA/Zx0JAA/yqIolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Did you get this mail as a forward? Subscribe by sending a blank mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], OR, if you have a Yahoo! ID, by visiting http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTPoets/join. Members are encourage to post poetry, their own and others', respond critically to the poems circulated, and participate in discussions. Post via email at [email protected] OR online at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTPoets/post. ====theZESTcommunity====== [1] ZESTCurrent: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTCurrent/ [2] ZESTEconomics: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTEconomics/ [3] ZESTGlobal: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTGlobal/ [4] ZESTMedia: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTMedia/ [5] ZESTPoets: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTPoets/ [6] ZESTCaste: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTCaste/ [7] ZESTAlternative: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTAlternative/ [8] TalkZEST: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TalkZEST/ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTPoets/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
