The Ghazal about Guzzling

~ Erynn Crittenden 
In all walks of life, we guzzle
Oh, how we love to sit and guzzle
 
As babes at our mother’s breast
We’d take her milk and guzzle
 
As children playing with the rest
We’d offer juice and guzzle
 
As adults in our Sunday best
We’d fill our glass and guzzle
 
Our cars and houses also blessed
As gas and money, they’d guzzle
 
Until our waning years possessed
Our souls and the love they guzzled
 
Then they said, Erynn, let us rest
For it was life we’d guzzled
 

 

The prompt for this poem was to “write a Ghazal about guzzling”.

I’ve never written a Ghazal before, so this was quite a challenge. How would you have written it?

To learn more about the Ghazal, visit the Poetry Foundation

Published by Erynn Crittenden

In love with the written word, Erynn pursued her passion and graduated from NSU with a degree in Creative Writing in the fall of 2019. Now, she spends her time writing for her website, working as a part-time copywriter, and enjoying the challenges that being a stay-at-home mother, author, and poet can bring.

5 thoughts on “The Ghazal about Guzzling”

  1. A brilliant Ghazal and a real journey through the many guzzling phases of life! Thanks for sharing Erynn! I am a Creative Life Coach and have a poetry blog in case you have time to read? http://www.peacockpoetryblog.wordpress.com and I am also on Instagram as #coachingcreatively – let’s follow each other if you use this medium? You can also find me on Facebook under Sam Allen wearing a bright red and orange hat! Have a good day?

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