Erdu Poetry

Ghazal

We all were killed
this our final
triumph

For we did reach the destination
we met your challenge
Beloved Revolution

and returned after dying
Oh victory

...

-Faiz Ahmed Faiz

This, in the search of the perfect lyriv poem as Paul sometimes mentions or refers to lyric poetry, or at the heart of everything is the lyric poem, one that is open, one that you rise up into only for a better view of the depths below, this is a little piece that caught my eye. More as I plough through this and other works... but he remind me of Darwish, and Adonis, maybe its the tone, or the heroism, or maybe the evocation of a haunting scape that seems at once as if it was desert and a vast expanse of ancient culture owned and unreachable, but this tone is a common feature in "middle eastern" or "oriental" poets, to borrow Said's term.