Ghazal Poem by Bijay Kant Dubey

Ghazal is just khayyal, thumri,
Slowly-slowly moving
And wetting with feeling
Where memory comes upon
As a reminiscence
Where love is barred,
Society is in taboos,
Bindings and bounds
Not allowed to mix with
Strictly prohibited
The moral police guarding
Keeping a watch upon.

The image or feeling comes
As a sweet remembrance of
Love or lost love,
Shadowy or in shades,
Viewed through the tearful eyes
Or held in love,
The poetry moving slowly,
The feelings wetting,
Drenching sadly
Making emotional about
With the sighs or pines
Or yearnings of love.

The couplets written in the sweet memory of
Or remembrance
Reminiscing about
The loss of beauty or youth,
Portraits in the dark,
Addressed to the veiled beauties
Their restricted love and guptgu
Held in top secret
With the mullahs and maulvis guarding,
The moral police keeping a watch upon,
The conservatives and the orthodox
The local guardians of society.