Do you live in the dark? The stars fall down on your courtyard Still you wake up in the midnight qith eye-full of dreams Fogs gather on the window night swings like banana leaf White flowers will bloom on all… Continue reading
Poems
Stream and Roots
Murshida Ahmed On the easel inside a square frame there’s an incomplete painting A tree is going to submerge from the broken river bank I love, so from my love I am moving away from it Now I’ve spread my… Continue reading
চারটি নেপালি কবিতা
চারটি নেপালি কবিতা অনুবাদঃ সিদ্দিক মাহমুদুর রহমান বিভৎস পরিবেশ অস্মিতা ভাণ্ডারী আমি কি মৃতদেহের কথা লিখবো? কিংবা আতঙ্কের কথা অথবা মানুষের মনের অবিশ্বাসের কথা? কিংবা লিখবো কি ধূলা ও ধুঁয়ার সংমিশ্রণে প্রবাহিত ধুমায়িত নিশ্বাসের কথা? আমি কি গুলির শব্দের… Continue reading
A Patched-Up Poem
You must have realized by now That this poem, like life, is all patched-up. Two lines were written in the month of Agrahayon Over which swept innumerable Sidrs, so many springs. Haggling over fish I jotted down two more lines… Continue reading
Demand and supply
She sat on a bed covered with faded linen with huge blues roses printed on it. Uncertain of himself, he sat on a chair. The walls had the look of used white ceramic plates. A popular film tune played almost… Continue reading
I came at your door
A powerful cold wind, of freezing nature Blew inland from the ocean and rocked Frankfurt city The sky is plastered with thick pieces of dark cloud As if somebody kept the slices like butter dexterously On the fields of the… Continue reading
Parbatipur Junction 1971
When I got down from train at Parbatipur1 Junction it was midnight Noiseless silence engulfed me from all sides As if I’m standing at the centre of a giant marshland Have I got down in this platform alone? I looked… Continue reading
Poems of SYED HAIDER
Woman 1 was suddenly enthralled, It was love at first sight; That day her entire person was clear as the sky, The spheres of her rounded eyes radiated like glass In the broad portion of her forehead. (thanked my good… Continue reading
Poems of ASIM SAHA
Astonishment Three fairies were flying past through the dense clouds The dresses, adorned their bodies, like flowers Are flowing in the breeze. Meghnad, behind the clouds, without hurl darts, stone-gazed on at the fairies, Unmoved, and from the weapons,… Continue reading
Poems of ABID ANOWAR
Oh Sum Total, Oh Whole Where are you, oh the sum total, Oh the Whole, as I shout with a moistened voice, a darkness responds with an invincible distant darkness. You are far from the sum of parts, I know,… Continue reading
Poems of QUAZI ROSY
Liability If you give me a pinch of belief I will be indebted to you for rest of my life If you give me a bit of sustenance I will remain in your magnitude If you give me… Continue reading
Poems of HAYAT SAIF
Light and Darkness When the darkness of night descends And the hours go deeper then you remain far away I can not see you then But the distance started to wane in the horizon Darkness removes differences among one… Continue reading
Poems of MAHADEV SAHA
A Poem of Kashbon The sky is the Kashbon, beside the river Children of Heaven play in the Kashbon I looked at the garden of white cloud sitting beside the quay Before feeling which was the sky and… Continue reading
Poems of MUHAMMAD NURUL HUDA
Travelogue The key could not be found, they quickly broke down lock of your door You didn’t tell anything. They freed you in wooden box, the Earth closed down its backside door You didn’t tell anything. Keeping aside the paddy-seeds,… Continue reading
Poems of KHURSHID ANOWAR
The Fiction Of Dry Leaves Some one tied anklets on the ankles of the wind With seductive rings, but that too, of dry leaves. Some one gets distressed from within As dry leaves keep piling up. The tunes of long… Continue reading
Poems of HABIBULLAH SIRAJI
Kingfisher, Krishnachura and Manjumala I’ll love you, so I caught a kingfisher and kept in a cage, I planted a krishnachura in a tub to fill your lips with kisses I desired copulation, either in wings or in branches… Continue reading