Shahabuddin Nagari Poems

Also give me a river with cool continuous flowing water
I will swim in the water and in the moon light
I’ll touch the blue sky and become green, drink
Black cloud and become a vast waterbed, I’ll break
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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
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Every year when I show balance sheet of loan, you say-
I’ll clear all this year. But Invitation card of the Year-end
And New Year is sent back from your address
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People will fill bottles with essence of roses or orchid
They’ll throw away hidden bombs and bullets of pistols
And will decorate flower baskets on their own hands.
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Every morning a crow
Crows harshly by the window
If I were a crow
I’ll build a house
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First lesson of notation.
Shall I have to tell a lie?
At this question the PP laughed and said,
There’s no sin in speaking falsehood, it is pardoned,
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Saddam Hussein came out of VVIP Lounge stood at the tarmac
On the red carpet. As Air Force One stopped at the tarmac
The TV camera started to roll and innumerable flash bulbs
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You also wake up like a devout woman
On your forehead move disarryed hairs
You breast blaze with burning love
Bangladesh, you fill our arable lands with
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For long hours of night, we blamed each other
Sleepless went the night
Still we never acknowledged our faults
We waited ten years to see the flowers bloom
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Stars will emit light, white clouds will float away
To the west. I’ll see with amazement. It would not happen now.
South wind will move mosquito net and touch my body
As if nature touch the nerves at the massage parlour
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