dVerse Poets – Ghazal

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Poetry Prompt: Include AT LEAST ONE of these in your poem, from Pablo Neruda’s ‘Book of Questions’. [suggestion – regard these as rhetorical, i.e. self-reflective]. I like to use as an opening epigraph with nod to the author of course

• Why was I not born mysterious?
• Why did I grow up without companions?
• Do unshed tears wait in little lakes?
• How long do others speak if we have already spoken?
• Why does Spring once again offer its green clothes?
• Isn’t it better never than late?

Poetry Style:
• Write your poem as a Ghazal*
• 5 -15 rhyming couplets

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“Do unshed tears wait in little lakes”

Streaming from a heart that aches sorrowful

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Flowing freely without sound

Shed tears disappear in lakes quiet

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Secretly letting the salty flow

Offered as a gift to keep and take saving

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The sorrow hovering inside

Set free from words I forsake depression

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Melancholy lessening then

Heart opens and awakes feelings lift

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Soothing now the tempest flow

Tears taken for my sake. relief

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**from Pablo Neruda’s ‘Book of Questions’

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MTB: Echoing Back

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