Saturday, July 19, 2008

Sufi


Closer,

Ghazal
Five couplets at the minimum
but no more than twelve.
The first couplet establishes
a rhyme followed by a refrain,
a scheme repeated
by the second line
of each succeeding couplet.
Each couplet stands on its own
but must also be part of the whole.
At the end, the poet often invokes himself.

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