Its ragged leafless candelabra boughs flaunt insurgent smouldering red flowers— insurgent because only this blithe exuberant exultant stubborn red beating off heat dust and grime, can hoist a funeral gleam and repudiate, very briefly though, […]
When you are aging and beginning to fall apart, the onset of decrepitude drives your raptor mind wild with rage. Fury at decay strikes a shrieking jagged note in your gloomy songs. But often the […]
In early summer, when the immersive floating vastness of evening engages Kolkata taking the city in slow stages and delivers the first darkness around wayside knots of trees — […]
Translation of “Ishtihar” by Rudra Mohammad Shahidullah On this Earth, humans were yet to split up for their sheer self-interest. The land wasn’t owned yet. Humans, still only the children of the Earth. […]
Original: Rabindranath Tagore (From Geetobitan) Translation: Abdullah Al Mamun Behind the estrangement between you and I How do I bind the bridge of tunes in rhythms? Yet deep in my heart quietly ring the […]
I am gorgeous, A beauteous feast of – The eyes of the universe! As meandering and intoxicating As the serpentine sea. Fast and furious I pace downward with an Unbridled ecstasy! I pass through […]
You came to earth I followed your fate I was the sinner You were a mere mate. I was a sibling of your children But they fought over me The reason for their […]
The Rose smiled, so smiled the buds, the petals In blood, full of dewy inertia, with blushful bubbles, With the charms of Psyche’s oracle blessed, Enshrouded in the hooded veil of mist of the Soft […]
The Mountain I am quiet, somber Rock solid and hard, As smooth as chiseled Alabaster. I look straight up The carefree and limitless sky, Unmoved, spellbound. I am a crushing mass of Stone, a rugged […]
I I’d take snakes for hair Any night and any day. I’d knot them and braid them. I’d toss them in the air They’d dance and they’d hiss They’d dangle, they’d kiss You and you […]
Publisher : Sabiha Huq, Professor of English, Khulna University, Bangladesh
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