When letting go of vain understanding,
One begins to attain understanding.
In the desert, a sea of sand stretches;
Wind bestows to each grain understanding.
If one will not wake from shifting dreams,
What good is it to gain understanding?
A rolling ocean of flourishing pines
Rose from earth to sustain understanding.
When one holds a whisk or a staff upright,
Speaking will only stain understanding.
When lightning flashes across a dry night,
The sky is soon to rain understanding.
What hinders the mind will hinder all else;
Why struggle to retain understanding?
Rivers can swell till, flooding, they burst
Banks not meant to contain understanding.
All seekers find the way in due time,
And then release inane understanding.
Gray grasses bend in myriad patterns;
They yield rather than strain, understanding.
The traveler on the road to heaven
Is filled with an arcane understanding.
The rosebud opens itself to the sky,
Not wanting to restrain understanding.
Be still, Zahhar, there is peace in the wind;
Never prize nor disdain understanding.
Author notes
featured in:
Muse Apprentice Guild: www.muse-apprentice-guild.com/ (Fall 2003 issue)
to learn more about the ghazal: allpoetry.com/Column/784848/all=1
Written December 21st, 2002
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I like this alot to....wow, i say that alot, but it's true, not just an auto-responce, that i can promise.
At first I was getting really tired of every second line having the word "understanding" at the end of it, then i realized that this is a different form that any i'm used to and that it's probibly for emphasis that it be there, so i read it again and took it in as a form of emphasis and it sounded so much better to me. I guess to like certain forms you have to have some kind of knowledge or "understanding" about them. lol.
good stuff. keep it up.
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I will answer your question as to which couplets in an IM.
Absinthe
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This seems like a hard form to write in, I liked the depth with which you wrote and felt this was a well thought out poem. Well done on writing this and keep up the good work.
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which couplets?
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I feel a couple of the couplets struggle, but I'm sure you've got a metered explanation for it. Well written. I like it.
Absinthe
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Looks like this form takes a bit of thought...
I do enjoy reading them.
This one seems to have come to you with a little more difficulty than others.
However, you do well and I cannot refrain understanding.
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