Child: New and Selected Poems 1991–2011 by Mimi Khalvati

Child: New and Selected Poems 1991–2011 by Mimi Khalvati

Author:Mimi Khalvati [Mimi Khalvati]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781847779151
Publisher: Carcanet Press
Published: 2012-01-15T00:00:00+00:00


Why do nightingales sing in the dark?

Ask the radif, it will only say ‘it’s heartache’.

Let khalvati, ‘a quiet retreat’,

close my ghazal and heal as it may its heartache.

Ghazal: Of Ghazals

Ah sweetheart, you have sent me a book of ghazals.

You have sent me a bough and a brook of ghazals.

I have even become tears to live

in your eyes. Let me live in their look of ghazals.

Shahid is dead, great poets dying,

but his swansong is hung on the hook of ghazals.

May the rarest editions of love

bring us both to a shop with a nook of ghazals.



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