weighted clouds - theatrical feelings
we lay panting beneath tall ceilings

longing for space we could call our own
trading philosophical leanings

street sweeper noises - gulls - fox screeches
sorrow - unconventional meanings

tented in rented sheets - sky-sheltered
yet unsettled by astral growlings

whisper voiced - screen tanned - blessed light-walkers
ghostly in our most carnal couplings

#Poetry #Writing #MastoPrompt #vss365Today prompt - 1st September - sombre.

#Ghazal well, kind of...

enchanting music and writing via Anandi Mishra, in a rhapsodic appreciation of Pakistani sensation Ali Sethi at Popula

https://popula.com/2023/08/15/ali-sethis-paniya/

#ghazal #lgbtq #pasoori #alisethi #music #beauty

दिन कुछ ऐसे गुज़ारता है कोई
जैसे एहसां उतारता है कोई

दिल में कुछ यूं संभालता हूं ग़म
जैसे ज़ेवर संभालता है कोई

आइना देख कर तसल्ली हुई
हम को इस घर में जानता है कोई

Din Kuch Aise Guzarta Hai Koi
Jaise ehsaan Utaarta Hai Koi

Dil me kuch yun sambhalta hun gham
Zaise zevar sambhalta hai koi

Aayina Dekhkar Tassalli Huyi
Humko Is Ghar Mein Jaanta Hai Koi

#ghazal #poetry #gulzar @mastodonindians

🔊 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #JazzTheatre

Ghazal:
🎵 Dawn

#Ghazal

https://open.spotify.com/track/3w2qvXXmA2129XUEIj3wfR

https://ghazal.bandcamp.com/track/is-this-the-dawn

To run into such a gem serendipitously ... Seems to be from early years of Abida's singing career (according to Wikipedia, she sung this first in the 1970s!). Her voice is softer, but her distinctive style is already there. What a beautiful rendition. The album picture in the video seems wrong.

Woh Humsafar Tha (#ghazal by Naseer Turabi)

#AbidaParveen #Music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RInfdRonkKc

My friends, if you’ve never listened to a #ghazal before, here’s one! The voice, the poetry, the music, you won’t know which one to praise first.

Click on cc to turn on the captions.

https://youtu.be/tYB-6i_q4sU

The longish weekend turned out to be a longish work weekend. So now trying to salvage what's left of it with some timeless ghazals.

Iqbal Bano's immortal rendition of Dasht-e-tanahai Mein.

#ghazal #music #IqbalBano

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXy8D9Qvw04

E con un affascinante viaggio in oriente con la musica #Sufi, si conclude la nostra playlist di oggi. A domani!

Abida Parveen - Arey Logo Tumhara Kya

#Musica #World #Qawwali #Ghazal
https://youtu.be/I8-BuFuisLI

Today's poem:

Ghazal: To hold me
- Mimi Khalvati

https://at.tumblr.com/ukdamo/ghazal-to-hold-me/hi84j3mmdmz8

#poetry #MimiKhalvati #ghazal #love #passion #hope #redemption #god

🔥

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=ttnav-OGu4M&feature=share

#JaunElia #music #Ghazal

It's 3.17am so the perfect time for this sublime #ghazal from #NajmaAkhtar, #NeendKoyi

https://youtu.be/VFI27vpI5mY

Listen to that voice... <3

#Desi #SouthAsianDiaspora #FusionMusic

We are parting now. Perhaps in dreams will we meet.
Like we find a wilted flower inside a book, we meet.

Neither you are a god, nor my love like a fairy angel.
Humans we are, why only in shadows would we meet

-Ahmed Faraz
#translation #ghazal

My new single, 'Saari Raina' out on all digital platforms. Music video here:
https://youtu.be/XeMsSsMATt0
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#OriginalMusic
#NewMusic
#Ghazal
#IndianMusic
#SingerSonwriter
#MusicVideo
#IndianSingerSongwriter
#IndianInAustralia

I beg for haven: Prisons, let open your gates–
A refugee from Belief seeks a cell tonight.

#ghazal #poetry #AghaShahidAli

Those "Fabrics of Cashmere—" "to make Me beautiful—"
"Trinket"— to gem– "Me to adorn– How– tell"— tonight?

#ghazal #poetry #AghaShahidAli

Where are you now? Who lies beneath your spell tonight?

Whom else from rapture's road will you expel tonight?

Agha Shahid Ali

#ghazal #poetry

Chalo kam az kam #ghazal ke baare men log baat kar rahe hain 🤷🏻‍♂️ but pls Mastodon an #amrad is a young beardless or lightly-bearded male desired by older men, not a retro computer part.

Alright, I’m going to play the academic hashtag roulette! I’m a scholar of South Asian + Islamicate verbal arts especially interested in the #qissa + #dastan genres & #qissakhwani. The #ghazal & #masnawi forms are my mainstays but the #shahrashob is cool too. Intertextual theories of #istiqbal #jawabgoi #sariqa are grist for my mill. Writing these days about queer figures like the #amrad #luti #khunsa (no not kundalini yoga, Mastodon). Okay! Let’s see how many of these tags lead me anywhere

Je vous invite à écouter de la belle musique perse et indienne. Il s'agit de l'album Ghazal - Lost songs of the Silk Road :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fF6p8pZVNr8

♥ Merci Grégory

#ghazal ; #musique ; #perse ; #indien

Mir Taqi Mir, a true #legend and a true #rebel. #Urdu #Ghazal #poetry