#22

I kind of liked the Ghazal form and probably because its a poem based on couplets and has a rhyme. A ghazal maybe understood as a poetic expression of both pain and loss or separation and the beauty of love in spite of that pain. One poem in particular that caught my eye was Jim Harrison Drinking Song. I think this is a very relate able topic and when people read this poem, Its nice to know that they are not the only in the world that has felt this way or even went down that road. I also found it very interesting that the author got his point across only writing six couplets. Each couplet does not relate to any other one but it still keep the theme consist throughout his poem.. I think my favorite couplet was "I'm going to be a child about it and I can't help it, I was born this way and it makes me very happy to fish and drink." I think that is should a powerful line because I know I have come to a point in my life where I felt like I was going about the situation in a childish way, and I tried making an excuse by saying I was born this way or that just how I am.