A Ghazal For The Singer

~ and all the worlds are yours ~

‘Worlds Too Distant’ acrylic on canvas by author

‘A Ghazal, Gaciela in Spanish, may be understood as a poetic expression of both the pain of loss or separation and the beauty of love in spite of that pain…’

This one’s for the singer.

Wind

amongst parapets

songs of

hungry words

worlds too distant,

too close to the heart —

wise eye of the singing bird

of ancient trees,

he wept

for love

lost in narrow streets,

mocked

paradoxes of flesh and stone.

Deep notes

like mystic waters

loosened dry

threads around

thirsty hands

I heard places

where no one can hide

saw immortality

dead,

and

gutted windmills

on broken hinges

sobbing

on the sandbars of time.