Siddique Mahmudur Rahman

ASAD CHOWDHURY

There was fire in the water
There was fire in the rain
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The other day I saw a snake.
It was cloudy day, full of dejection
I was counting minutes with
distress and agitation
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Can a body turn into a tree? This body? This human body?
No, it never be, This infirm body can not
Spread itself deep in the soil.
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Matin Bairagi

African crumbled moon is hanging over the head
Yemen's blood-like rain is in the skull
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You're leaving, and look the clouds of the sky pour down in dejection
The whistles of the afternoon train felt extremely painful
Prospective poem too failed to touch the indolence of the evening
You've left, so the torch of the fire-works dived into the earth
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আমি কিন্তু শত কাজের মাঝে তোমার কথা মনে করি
কারণ একদিন তুমি আমাকে সুখ দিয়েছিলে।
সে সুখের কথা আমি সকল কাজের মাঝেও মনে রাখি
মানুষের জীবনে সুখ খুবই ক্ষণস্থায়ী।
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The black horse of Attila gallops fast
Destroys the golden handle of the civilization
Ancient monuments, Cornea of the nature
Deep sigh and dialogue of the Earth tremble
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A few people want to know to which woman of the world
I loved first.
A few people want to know to whom I write my first letter
Some ask, Which name did I wrote down first furtively
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... And then sound of falling and breaking down all around
I thought and I was at a loss at the shattering of the hill
All the energy is exhausted, light is wiping out
I am standing like a tree in a darkness,
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Each of us now have turned into isolated islands
There are hundreds of miles apart from each of these islands
Or lofty mountains between one another, or frightening abyss!
Temperament, upbringing, mood, action and deeds
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