Tax was imposed on the physical growth About turn Turn your face from the avenue of youth Let’s return to the alley of childhood, Dear child During Tughlaq’s era you do not Need golden muscle In the market places you’ll… Continue reading
Poems
Human being
. Whether unspoken painful eyes of farmers in the fields Bring more violent message than The dazzling rays of Sun over the paddy field? Every words seem entwined in a single melody Sounds of sawing the log, lathe machine Making… Continue reading
Woman
The tree gets shelter from the scorching sun With the shadow of a woman Rivers dry up. Woman gives Cool soothing water Polluted nature also desire Nursing of a woman. I am too a plant, why not I get Shelter… Continue reading
Never do I desire
Never do I desire any bloodshed, murder anywhere Never do I desire butcher’s knife, terror, epidemic-death I don’t want deserting of any jungle Shades of trees be wiped out Never do I wild animals caged by heartless humans Never do… Continue reading
Span of Love
Before I say I love you The time of our love ceases Before the romance Never-ending partition starts As if time of love is all too short It encompasses its journey very fast; Man wants attachment, but he is destined… Continue reading
You’ll not get me
Step by step I went apart millions on miles from you You didn’t try to notice; I knew you’ve been searching the way Of defending yourself I prepared the opportunity for you To protect you from my devastation; Be well…. Continue reading
Response
Whenever I look you in the printed letters In the pages of the book You said, ‘I’m the vacant space Between two lines’; When I can not find you inside the photo album You speak in low tone, ‘I am… Continue reading
You
Above my head lies a water-filled cloud Is nothing but you, In hot dry summer a heavy shower on my yard Is nothing but you. To a tired eyes of thirsty traveler soft refreshing rain Is nothing but you At… Continue reading
Gift
Without requesting you’ve given be Generously You’ve given me in this life Moonlit night. I didn’t asked You’ve filled up my vacant abode You’ve given me This universe I didn’t asked, but you’ve given me clouds, The beautiful touches of… Continue reading
I can remove stone
How much heavy is a stone, even heavier Is your heartless neglect I can displace the stone, disregard can not, All your neglect and contempt Turned into eternal never-ending ice-age I bear all these neglect For so many thousand light-years… Continue reading
Offerings
Where shall I keep all these flowers, I don’t have a vase My little fridge does not hold cakes, Apples become heart-broken! Where will I keep so many garlands of love? My empty plate has filled up with your gifts… Continue reading
Tonight
Magic of words will flow Tonight an exquisite painting Shall be painted. Tonight a drop of tear will gather In this heart. Tonight a hundred years from now To love-poem shall be written. Translated by Siddique Mahmudur Rahman
Sea of Pain
If sea of pain turns into an ocean Neve ask me to share it If a tiny feather of happiness Befalls on my painful life I’ll share it with you, if you don’t want it. Life a faraway bird How… Continue reading
Black Rose
Among hundreds of roses Of which some are bolloed, some are buds If if ask me Which one shall I select? I’ll take unhesitetingly My favourise black one. Everybody runs after beauty Discarding the black We forget everything When we… Continue reading
Battered dialogue of love
Love is painful dialogue Of two wounded hearts Either it a tragedy or a happy ending Happiness in faraway thing Still roses of love bloom again and again Love is devine, eternal But why in a love-laden life Heaven does… Continue reading
Right Time
It was desided, we’ll meet With our heart’s desire At Autumn’s late afternoon In a lonely railstation of North Bengal You’ve come near my heart Avoiding all obstacle Wearing diamond studded Bluish pink sari. Tranaslated by Siddique Mahmudur Rahman