To my monochrome life you radiate new light.
First stumbling, now flying, we dance into light.
I’ll stay, sheet-warmed, beside you, our bed an isle,
our room our soft seclusion of peace-hued light.
I’ll crumble looming mountains to ease your path,
rip curtains off muted stars to lend you light.
We rolled our dice, fingers crossed for perfection.
Tired of waiting, we claimed our overdue light.
Now, pen-clasping, I record my promises
to dance on hand-in-hand through darkness, through light.
(I rarely do poems for yeahwrite but the ghazal was too tempting.)
Ruby Bastille 
This is beautiful, especially this:
We rolled our dice, fingers crossed for perfection.
Tired of waiting, we claimed our overdue light.
Thank you!
…and now we know what it takes to tempt you into poetry… **steeples fingers**
Ha! Winning editor’s pick doesn’t hurt either. 😛
I enjoyed the line about ripping curtains off the stars.
And congratulations on your editor pick. I really loved this and was pleased to see it highlighted.
Thank you so much!
Sheet-warmed — I love this description.
Beautiful:
“I’ll crumble looming mountains to ease your path,
rip curtains off muted stars to lend you light.”
I’d love to spent an hour or two in your mind! This was really powerful.
Aw, thanks! It doesn’t do poetry often anymore so that section of my brain will be a little dusty!
Um. Can you do poems more, please? Loved the isle and the curtains! The trick to this ghazal seems to be the rhyme before the refrained word/phrase, huh?
Aw shucks, Nate! The sample ghazals were really helpful, especially “Hip Hop Ghazal.” Having a longer repeated phrase makes it much tricker to rhyme, I think – using just one word repeated made it somewhat easier.
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