Generally, these poems are about love, most often about the painful separation between the माशूक or beloved and the आशिक़ or lover, from whose perspective the poem is generally written. A ghazal (ग़ज़ल) is a type of poetry very common in Urdu literature that is composed of couplets – in this case, five pairs of couplets in which the first two lines rhyme and the second line of each couplet rhymes with the first two lines. Below, you’ll find one of her ghazals, “समुंदरों के उधर से कोई सदा आई” (“Somewhere near distant waters, a cry rang out”). As you may remember, I wrote a blog post about this poet previously, where you can learn more about her life and contributions to Urdu poetry. For this week’s blog, I thought it would be interesting to delve into the world of Hindi-Urdu poetry, in the form of a ghazal by Parveen Shakir (1952-1994).
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