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The ship is sinking, but no one can tell the captain,
He has left the bridge and locked himself in his cabin.

Click here to read the full ghazal #127 and commentary.

All that I have proved up to now is that I have as much
Wisdom as most fools, and more than those who don’t know they’re such.

Click here to read the full ghazal #128 and commentary.

When in the Great Darkness the desire for knowledge surged,
From the light of that Whim the dawn and the stars emerged.

Click here to read the full ghazal #129 and commentary.

How at young Dawn’s clear call my spirit used to leap!
Now I draw the blanket closer and would sleep and sleep.

Click here to read the full ghazal #130 and commentary.

I who was one of the sons of God now dwell in dust;
God is the Merciful, the Compassionate, the Just.

Click here to read the full ghazal #131 and commentary.

The world is being run on vogue words, clichés and outright lies;
And every virtue must be prostituted, or no one buys.

Click here to read the full ghazal #132 and commentary.

There is a high lake in the snowy mountains to which I would airlift
All sons of bitches who mislead simple people by their gab’s gift.

Click here to read the full ghazal #133 and commentary.

I am being killed by millions of beaks of words pecking at my brain.
Heaven is a place where words are few and soft—but heaven is man’s bane.

Click here to read the full ghazal #134 and commentary.

I would wander at night along a wide, white empty beach
Glistening under a rising spent moon, beyond voices’ reach.

Click here to read the full ghazal #135 and commentary.