2 min readApr 23, 2024
Gacela For Day’s End
~ in praise of soft goodbyes ~
“A Gacela is a Spanish version of a Ghazal, which is a form of Arabic verse concerned with mourning, loss, and romantic love.”
My mother was a poet too. She wrote many Urdu Ghazals — I grew up with the form. Structure of a Ghazal is rhyme but mine are Ghazals in spirit only.
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