Tag: ghazal

• “This Ring”

  

  (my own photo of the moon in a blushing morning sky in Massachusetts) This was my first poem I’d written and published online in 2022: The first of form poems I tried to write this year is a ghazal, and it’s fit well with that form having originated in the Middle East during the medieval […]

  11/29/2022 5:32 pm

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• The Unseen Poems by Rumi

  Last night I was reading from the poetry book The Unseen Poems by Rumi, the fourth collection of poetry that I have of his…Each from different translators. This is the one for those who enjoy a traditional setting, well-paced rhythm with some words that stand out, variations on the ghazal form of poetry, ones that […]

  09/30/2022 12:10 pm

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• “#1”

  As I listen to the flying birds singing far off and continuously…These still words land within my resting hands, bridging all my distances… —Jade

  05/25/2022 9:12 am

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• “#2”

  With you, there is another world layered over this one. It’s so translucent and wondrously original, I’ve said. You ask if there is quality glass shielding all this. There is, I reply, but it feels like the edges are useless… —Jade

  05/25/2022 8:44 am

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• “A Villanelle for the Times”

  

  You might remember when I was writing a villanelle poem, wanting to try another traditional form, as I’d written my first ghazal at the time and a sonnet, but I didn’t like the draft or that particular form for the idea. I transformed that villanelle into a ghazal, and I was happy with that latest […]

  04/05/2022 3:04 pm

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• “A Ghazal for When I’d Known I Shouldn’t Try to Give You The Sun” 

  

  Enjoy my second ghazal poem I wrote, just complete. You can listen to me reading it aloud…and read it on the page. My first ghazal was “This Ring.” A Ghazal for When I’d Known I Shouldn’t Try to Give You the Sun I am standing far below the sun in gold and I am star-following the best […]

  03/23/2022 9:31 pm

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• Spa Time at Home and a Couple of Phrases to Mend

  

  Feb. 11, ’22, needs improvement 🙂 March 22, ’22 I have taken out my newly-written ghazal poem (on my laptop) ‘tho I’d first thought it might still be too hot to my touch but it wasn’t and was ready to read. Reading it aloud I can see it is almost complete, but just one line […]

  03/22/2022 7:57 pm

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• I Turned My Villanelle into a Ghazal Today

  

  wrote by hand first, revised on laptop, typed paper is the original villanelle in transformation… I have turned my villanelle poem that was really giving me trouble into a ghazal today! I resisted doing that at first feeling I was maybe betraying the villanelle form and maybe also trying the complex, known-to-be-challenging ghazal form again […]

  03/18/2022 8:23 pm

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• Two Poems of Mine Published in Indelible

  

  My two poems, “This Ring” and “Droplets Slide Down the Pine and Land Upon the Grass Within a Slow Dance” are in print today in the latest issue of Indelible, an online literary and arts magazine, Issue #6, “The Feminine.” To read my two poems in Indelible, click This Ring and Other Poem, by Jade […]

  03/08/2022 7:09 am

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• An Amazing Art Reading from Some Weeks Ago

  This video was recently posted, an art event and poetry reading I’d attended some time ago—I wasn’t reading my own work at this meeting or making any audible comments, but the camera will show my appreciation for the art, poems, and background stories shared. (If you notice, no it’s not a camera trick; I did […]

  09/25/2021 12:45 pm

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• Poet: Zeina Hashem Beck and Her Ghazal

  Revision to this post with updated links, Mar. 11, ’22 Writing in form after a very long time was an invigorating challenge, especially a form I’d heard of and hadn’t yet written myself: a ghazal. I’d completed writing my very first one titled, ”This Ring.” I wanted to read others in this form. The subjects […]

  09/18/2021 11:49 am

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• Morning in Boston, Night in Australia, A Multi-National Online Poetry Reading

  

  It was a memorable poetry reading I co-hosted today ‘From Boston to Oz’ with my long-time poet online friend from Adelaide, Australia, Deb Stewart who had the idea for the event and invited me. 🙏😊 And yes that was a book of hers on my shelf Slow Notes, a beautiful white & green poetry book […]

  08/14/2021 2:06 pm

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• ‘…What Should I Be?’

  

  Upon awakening this morning I worked on my first ghazal poem awhile yesterday in the late afternoon and into the night just before bed. The traditional ghazal form contains the same word at the end of each last line of the couplets and a word that rhymes with that end word is placed before it. […]

  08/04/2021 9:05 am

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