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Title:       Ghazal
Date:        2025-04-08
Link:        https://spool-five.com/poetry/2025_apr08_ghazal/
Word Count:  164
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> Now try writing your own ghazal that takes the form of a love song –
> however you want to define that. Observe the conventions of the repeated
> word, including your own name (or a reference to yourself) and having
> the stanzas present independent thoughts along a single theme – a
> meditation, not a story.


Love is a stream, she said, a process
It took me a while to understand, to process

Past lives were like past loves, eager and ending
Love had always been a trial for me, a process

She bid me look at poor flowers, in suburban gardens
I felt my senses come alive, a slow, burning process

Some things come together to form the same
things differently. The laws of repetition, of process

No alpha or omega, no middle or twilight or morning
Existing before there was 'before', it was always just process

Were you there, even so, in past lives and dramas
leading me toward you, like a great and powerful process?