Today I am reading And the Old Man Speaks of Paradise: a Ghazal by Wang Ping.
A ghazal is originally an Arabic poetic form about loss and love. They are a series of couplets that all end with the same word. Often the couplets have the same length and meter.
Wang Ping has written more than a dozen books of poetry and prose. She's also received a National Endowment for the Arts and a Bush Foundation for the Arts award.
To read the poem yourself, click on the link:
https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/and-old-man-speaks-paradise-ghazal
