Abu Sayeed Obaidullah

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You're not shivering, O Carcass

Weary herds of cows and market-men left the place in a bunch.
Mounting religious-compulsion ends up in control of the frontier.
...

Looking at the snowfalls, I shall only recite poetry, I tell you.
The Sita- necklace at the bottom of the white mountain,
Duldul horse, whatever comes airborne, I tell you.
Guards wearing red garments, also show tricks and swiftness
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I keep up my innocence
Dear mango tree you are my kin.
If I attain your silhouette in this assembly of hunting
as is found in perpetual Mango-orchard.
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অন্ধকারের ঘাড়

ফল বাঁচাও
রাত্রি ঘুমিয়ে গেলে
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Abu Sayeed Obaidullah Biography

Poet, prose writer and translator Abu Sayeed Obaidullah was born on September 9,1965 in Bangladesh. Raised in the city of Dhaka, he received his B.A (Hons) M.A in English Literature at Dhaka University. His poems first appeared in prominent little magazines –Ekobingsho, Nisarga and other literary quarterlies. Poetry of Sayeed played a pivotal role in shaping the language of the New Poetry of Bangladesh in 90s, which bears profuse faces, seemingly distorted feelings, somewhat surreal aptitude generating ‘order in disorder’ in the poetic aura as a whole. His poetry, predominantly earlier ones are- passionately entrenched in the deep roots of socio-cultural phenomenon of the country. With time, and particularly since migration to Australia, his poems have gone through definite changes bearing diverse colours and textures, tenor and tendencies, where one can sense, by reading his new poems, the disposition of arrival and departure, melancholic longing for union with the Ultimate, in a Sufi sense, as well as the feelings of uneasiness in apprehending the Time and timelessness- in almost a visionary approach towards our queer existence in the universe. For Sayeed, language is not the channel of expression, but the technique of living the life of assimilation of acceptance and rejection of’ Self’ as well as the voyage of vision and reality. He has the inclination of avoiding conventional style of writing, destabilizing prearranged poetic forms, cliché subject matters. Rather he feels comfortable with the very rhythm embedded in the expression of language itself, the feelings that integrate the cadence of body and soul simultaneously. That’s why his poems seem to be a flute having several reeds, producing different resonances and requiem.)

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You'Re Not Shivering, O Carcass

You're not shivering, O Carcass

Weary herds of cows and market-men left the place in a bunch.
Mounting religious-compulsion ends up in control of the frontier.
The peels of mangoes, tinsel lie beside the meadows.
The profound clinches of girls and the love of bamboo-leaves
are immersed in the morning river.

You are not trembling, O Corpse!

The hair is flying in the wind
How the longing to return halts the commune of the apes!
Somewhere, far away, the night of the body-music
spreads across the bed and the bodies cuddle each other
with the enchanting feelings.
I feel, this anticipation will come to an end someday-
in the land of water, in the beliefs of the boatman.

Losing you forever, I expand the loveliness
of the arum greens in the water-air
and kindle flames out of my own ultimate clothes.
And look at the fertility of the soil
which enter through the crinkles of the dresses of girls
into the fascination of our offspring.

You are not trembling, O Corpse!

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