Welcome to my world of dreams where imagination and reality, fancy and truth, laughter and tears move hand in hand. I will let you have a glimpse at the share of my own sky, sometimes sunshine bright, and sometimes with rainstorm. I will take you to memories that are like a serene glow of moonlight, a whisper of mountain breeze, and a rushing gushing brook.
Sunday, January 26, 2020
রুরু
তোমাকে আমার ভালো লাগছে না আজ। তোমার সঙ্গে কথা বলার, তোমার কোথায় কষ্ট পাবার মন নেই আজ আর। আজ ওই অজানা আকাশের সেই অজানা পাখি কে খুঁজে বেড়াবো আমি। অজানা পাখির নাম দিলাম রুরু। আজ সারাদিন ধোরে রুরুকে চিঠি লিখবো আমি।
The Sunlight and the Afternoon
An afternoon from the past
came to spend some time with the lonely sunlight at the
rooftop.
Carrying those fireflies of memory, it asks her, “shall I
stay with you today?”
Unwilling sunlight moves away to the branches of the
Gulmohar tree, her eyes do not hold nostalgia anymore.
The restless babblers shout from behind the branches
“Do you remember? Do
you remember it all today?”
But, by then, the sunlight has already shifted to the top of the Gulmohar tree,
nestling those yellow colored leaves.
She stares at the calm lone star above the head.
Someday, she believes, it will come down to kiss her
forehead.
Sunday, January 12, 2020
Footloose
These days my feet are wobbly and
wonky
They stir within my shoes tickling me to be tall and
spunky
I plan to sit below the tree away from the dins and
bustle
But those feet jump and dance clip clop, clip clop, shush
and shuffle
I keep urging them to calm down and remain on Earth
They rebel, refute and argue that this is of no
worth
Even the spider web network of the varicose vein
Fail to keep those feet under a steady rein
To imagine them dance across the highway and the
field
Defying all
queries if they belong to a woman or child or a mind that's healed
O feet, you have conspired and joined hands with
that untimely rainy season
You nudge me saying there’s always a fourth
dimension, as you break your own prison
Whip and whoosh, you plan to take me to the Centre
of the Sun
I agree as you promise that there will be flowers
and spinning fun
The rhythmic beat of life, now, is footloose and
fancy free
The fireflies within my fist are glowing brighter and
more stubbornly
Saturday, January 11, 2020
This poem is called age
The squirrel hiding within my chest is half awake.
I imagine, peeping snowflakes outside the window.
The broken tune of the music that I was humming and
the fluttering wings of the noisy babbler outside the patio,
they all carry a new rhythm, today.
Those old questions are fading away from the touchscreen keypad.
There is a winter walking within me.
A cold winter that strangely bears its own fiery warmth,
making me bow down in reverence.
I imagine, peeping snowflakes outside the window.
The broken tune of the music that I was humming and
the fluttering wings of the noisy babbler outside the patio,
they all carry a new rhythm, today.
Those old questions are fading away from the touchscreen keypad.
There is a winter walking within me.
A cold winter that strangely bears its own fiery warmth,
making me bow down in reverence.
Saturday, January 4, 2020
অভিমান
অভিমানের রং নীল হয়। সে এক্কেবারে আলাদা। এমনকি ইংরেজিতেও তার অনুবাদ হয় না। সে কখনো জমে থাকা কুয়াশার মতন গভীর। কখনো আবার গরিবের ভাতের হাড়ির মতন কালো অন্ধকার। আবার কখনো নদীর মতন তিরতিরিয়ে সদাই সঙ্গে চলে। চলতে চলতে খেলার ছলে গল্প করে, কখনো বা শুধুই চুপচাপ দুজনে পুরানো বন্ধুর মতন। হওয়াতে মনখারাপের গন্ধ টা যখন আরও নিবিড় হয়, শুধু তখন বোঝা যায় যে সঙ্গে চলতে চলতে কখন যেন সে ডালপালা শিকড় ছড়িয়ে এক মস্ত বৃক্ষ হয়ে দাঁড়িয়েছে মনের মধ্যে। যে পথ বেঁকে চলে গেছে, তাকে যদি ডেকে আনা যেত তাহলে হয়তো সে অভিমানকে বোঝাতে পারতো যে ভুল হয়, ভুল হয়েই থাকে। তাই বলে কি এভাবে বেঁচে থাকতে হয় চিরটাকাল? জানোতো যে সব্বাইকে চলে যেতে হয় একদিন। তাহলে তোমার বেলা অন্যথা কোনো হবে? এবার যাও তুমি। দেখো, আকাশে বাতাসে মিশে যেতে পারলে আরো বেশি ভালো লাগে।
Monday, December 16, 2019
Fear(less)
Fear is
lying deserted on a roadside, like a wreckage after drowning, sinking into darkness from skin to soul
Fear is
Hands flailing, a beaten animal, limbs swollen, stench of rotting breath, bleeding wound
Fear is
When the mind longs to go home but could only focus on the stink and mutilation
Fear is
Always staying in a group, quickened steps in a dark alley, lessons of being a ‘good girl’ and your failure to educate your sons
Fear is
My hunched back, my quivering spine, my gut-shuttering voiceless scream and the sneering man
I eat, play, grow up and learn fear.
I am afraid of everything
I am afraid of you, him and them.
So, how dare you call me Nirbhaya?
How on Earth am I the fearless?
Goddammit, I am afraid of everything, you, him, and them.
Fear is the ice-cold deadliness that I wear every day.
Fear is the bone chilling numbness that I live.
So, how dare you call me Nirbhaya?
lying deserted on a roadside, like a wreckage after drowning, sinking into darkness from skin to soul
Fear is
Hands flailing, a beaten animal, limbs swollen, stench of rotting breath, bleeding wound
Fear is
When the mind longs to go home but could only focus on the stink and mutilation
Fear is
Always staying in a group, quickened steps in a dark alley, lessons of being a ‘good girl’ and your failure to educate your sons
Fear is
My hunched back, my quivering spine, my gut-shuttering voiceless scream and the sneering man
I eat, play, grow up and learn fear.
I am afraid of everything
I am afraid of you, him and them.
So, how dare you call me Nirbhaya?
How on Earth am I the fearless?
Goddammit, I am afraid of everything, you, him, and them.
Fear is the ice-cold deadliness that I wear every day.
Fear is the bone chilling numbness that I live.
So, how dare you call me Nirbhaya?
Sunday, December 8, 2019
Call it LIFE or LOVE, choose as you wish to
কথা ফুরিয়ে যায়, তবুও প্রেম থেকে যায়
নীরবতার আনাচে কানাচে, কল্পনার নরম ভাজে।
নীরবতার আনাচে কানাচে, কল্পনার নরম ভাজে।
প্রেম ফুরিয়ে যায়, তবুও কথা থেকে যায়
নিঃসঙ্গতার আড়ালে আবডালে, কথাকাটাকাটির মাঝখানে।
নিঃসঙ্গতার আড়ালে আবডালে, কথাকাটাকাটির মাঝখানে।
Words end, yet love remains
in the nook and corner of the silence of cremation
among the soft tangles of the spider-web of imagination.
in the nook and corner of the silence of cremation
among the soft tangles of the spider-web of imagination.
Love ends, yet words remain,
In the hiding branches of the deadly alone-ness,
in the uneven layers of those pride and that defiance.
In the hiding branches of the deadly alone-ness,
in the uneven layers of those pride and that defiance.
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