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There's a different moods that sets in at night I


There's a different moods that sets in at night
I can't decide to stay awake or sleep at night

Memories I avoid all day come to invade my peace at night
Putting up a facade all day
I am more me at night

It was the most dreaded part in  childhood to switch off the lights in night
Now more than lights I find the darkness more soothing in the night

You ask, what's so special about the night Reem
I say with a sigh, once me and He were very close in the night Here's a serene night prompt. A #nightghazal.

First invented by Amir Khusrao, a Persian poet in the 1300s, and first adopted in English by the Kashmiri-American poet Agha Shahid Ali in the 1980-90s, a ghazal has two elements: radeef and kafia. Radeef is what repeats in every line — "at night" in the above ghazal. Kafia is the rhyming words that precedes the radeef. The words that end with the sound -ear basically. #earatnight

In a ghazal, the first couplet—also known as matla, has kafia and radeef in both the lines, but in the subsequent couplets, only the second line of the couplet has the kafia and radeef. The first line could be anything leading up to the second one. In the last couplet, poets include a maqta where they take their own name or pseudonym by mostly addressing themselves or making someone address them. For instance, if I were to write the maqta for the above ghazal, it'd be like this:

If you ask, why do you stay up so late, Baba?
I'll shyly admit I miss someone dear at night. #YourQuoteAndMine

There's a different moods that sets in at night
I can't decide to stay awake or sleep at night

Memories I avoid all day come to invade my peace at night
Putting up a facade all day
I am more me at night

It was the most dreaded part in  childhood to switch off the lights in night
Now more than lights I find the darkness more soothing in the night

You ask, what's so special about the night Reem
I say with a sigh, once me and He were very close in the night Here's a serene night prompt. A #nightghazal.

First invented by Amir Khusrao, a Persian poet in the 1300s, and first adopted in English by the Kashmiri-American poet Agha Shahid Ali in the 1980-90s, a ghazal has two elements: radeef and kafia. Radeef is what repeats in every line — "at night" in the above ghazal. Kafia is the rhyming words that precedes the radeef. The words that end with the sound -ear basically. #earatnight

In a ghazal, the first couplet—also known as matla, has kafia and radeef in both the lines, but in the subsequent couplets, only the second line of the couplet has the kafia and radeef. The first line could be anything leading up to the second one. In the last couplet, poets include a maqta where they take their own name or pseudonym by mostly addressing themselves or making someone address them. For instance, if I were to write the maqta for the above ghazal, it'd be like this:

If you ask, why do you stay up so late, Baba?
I'll shyly admit I miss someone dear at night. #YourQuoteAndMine