Ghazal (November)

I, thoroughly convinced the world was mine, spent youth, prior to learning from squiffy wine, in the school of soft knocks the complex moment; knew love and was known in love, like the wine that calms, enlivens, inspires and shares. To enhance memories, or forget, this local wine teaches that the great I am that I was is done; that life is full where all glasses of wine fill with familiar colour for friends and lovers this November, this time around, this wine; that you too, finding yourself filled up halfway sign these words with your name, not Philip Harvey.

 

Ghazal (November)

 

I, thoroughly convinced the world was mine,

Spent youth, prior to learning from squiffy wine,

 

In the school of soft knocks the complex moment;

Knew love and was known in love, like the wine

 

That calms, enlivens, inspires and shares. 

To enhance memories, or forget, this local wine

 

Teaches that the great I am that I was is done;

That life is full where all glasses of wine

 

Fill with familiar colour for friends and lovers

This November, this time around, this wine;

 

That you too, finding yourself filled up halfway

Sign these words with your name, not Philip Harvey.