"happiness" [ghazal]
to speak with you is a happiness for me
may I seek of you this happiness for me?
born in foolsville (jowling the bell of tradition)
to be cheeky with you is a happiness for me
when chitchat connotes a labyrinth of deep learning
all the Greek of you becomes happiness for me
each gatha richa & sher may be high in wisdom
but the peek of you is the happiness for me
when the factory output cookie-cut folk where'd you go?
the unique of you is a happiness for me
O sepia friend! your photograph proved bewitching
the antique of you was a happiness for me
when Begum Akhtar quavered the room could reel
the mystique of you was a happiness for me
the wisdom-book gets rewritten in every yug
the God-Speak of you is a happiness for me
do pen more poems! autumnal flowers are so rare!
the critique of you is a happiness for me
if I seek you in hill & dale you're more clever than clover!
hide-&-seek of you is a happiness for me
Egyptian scribes are discreet about royal affairs
not to leak of you was a happiness for me
O mother-bird! I cry for love & laddoo
for the beak of you is a happiness for me
the water of life refreshes the weary landscape
& the creek of you is a happiness for me
I love your yugs & years your himalayan heights
half a week of you is a happiness for me
A single word in your voice is like rich ice-craam!
am I freaking you? you're a happiness for me
in life Ardeo natural art intrigues
the batik of you is a happiness for me
each gatha richa & sher : each of these words signifies a verse or stanza of poetic writing -- respectively from Sanskrit (especially Mahayana Buddhist), Sankrit (specifically Vedic), and Urdu (e.g. ghazal) traditions
Begum Akhtar; (also this book news). The Makar Site (see named-artist links at right) includes a 2-min. sample of her singing.
mmm -- on same site, I'm now hearing (1st time for me) Bahauddin Dagar's Rudra Vina (in 2-min. clip). What tone. What an instrument. Encouraging to hear this.
God Speaks: The Theme of Creation and its Purpose (1956/1973) was Meher Baba's magnum opus in terms of a spritual cosmology.
batik (though I was thinking a bit more of the crackly, chancy sort where natural randomness prevails; anyway this-here sort of batik shows nature-representation; the other discovers (one side of) nature itself, sampled rather than represented; either way, we're amid an art/nature continuum)
may I seek of you this happiness for me?
born in foolsville (jowling the bell of tradition)
to be cheeky with you is a happiness for me
when chitchat connotes a labyrinth of deep learning
all the Greek of you becomes happiness for me
each gatha richa & sher may be high in wisdom
but the peek of you is the happiness for me
when the factory output cookie-cut folk where'd you go?
the unique of you is a happiness for me
O sepia friend! your photograph proved bewitching
the antique of you was a happiness for me
when Begum Akhtar quavered the room could reel
the mystique of you was a happiness for me
the wisdom-book gets rewritten in every yug
the God-Speak of you is a happiness for me
do pen more poems! autumnal flowers are so rare!
the critique of you is a happiness for me
if I seek you in hill & dale you're more clever than clover!
hide-&-seek of you is a happiness for me
Egyptian scribes are discreet about royal affairs
not to leak of you was a happiness for me
O mother-bird! I cry for love & laddoo
for the beak of you is a happiness for me
the water of life refreshes the weary landscape
& the creek of you is a happiness for me
I love your yugs & years your himalayan heights
half a week of you is a happiness for me
A single word in your voice is like rich ice-craam!
am I freaking you? you're a happiness for me
in life Ardeo natural art intrigues
the batik of you is a happiness for me
each gatha richa & sher : each of these words signifies a verse or stanza of poetic writing -- respectively from Sanskrit (especially Mahayana Buddhist), Sankrit (specifically Vedic), and Urdu (e.g. ghazal) traditions
Begum Akhtar; (also this book news). The Makar Site (see named-artist links at right) includes a 2-min. sample of her singing.
mmm -- on same site, I'm now hearing (1st time for me) Bahauddin Dagar's Rudra Vina (in 2-min. clip). What tone. What an instrument. Encouraging to hear this.
God Speaks: The Theme of Creation and its Purpose (1956/1973) was Meher Baba's magnum opus in terms of a spritual cosmology.batik (though I was thinking a bit more of the crackly, chancy sort where natural randomness prevails; anyway this-here sort of batik shows nature-representation; the other discovers (one side of) nature itself, sampled rather than represented; either way, we're amid an art/nature continuum)
posted by david raphael israel at 1:10 AM
2 Comments:
cheek by jowl inside a verse
(methinks there could be things much worse)
a post-mortem on the paranthesis
(makes good material for a thesis)
if you can gut-her, rich-er and share
and all those bad puns bear
(and lionise -
did you know that sher is also lion?)
then why, I see no wrinkles to iron
:D
Annotation from Ishqa!
urbane (if hard to parse)
largessing of a shah
would be less dear: the farce
is I (self-styled as clever)
to parse it must endeavor
my wrinkled brow Ishqa
wants ironing (now or never)
the lion-bit was new to me
the "share" of sher seems true to me
the "gut-her" while askew to me
I'm richer (what you do to me)
riposte to lionize Ishqa?
O happy (stormy) weather!
d.i.
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