Tuesday, January 12, 2016

Inescapable



Ages of turmoil,
Sad episodes grim the moon’s face,
Confused at her rising and hiding
Silver rings as teardrops break
into the waters,
Talk to the fallen petals
They must have been flowers, a while ago
In the stillness of darkness,
Redolence falls,

Pearly silence tends to surface.

Sunday, January 10, 2016

Changing the prosaic demeanour














I belong to the world; this world, my world, our world
I am an American, a European,
An African, an Asian, an Australian
All at the same time
I am an Afghan, a German
A Pakistani, a Brit, an Indian
A Mexican, a Canadian, a Russian
A Japanese, an Algerian, a Chinese
All at once, all at ease. 

I belong to the world; this world, my world, our world
Ever since I was born, I had been fighting with reflection
The sister or brother
Camouflaged as the other
Till date, I have created weapons to destroy, kill
I have never even thought
That it’s possible to survive without weapons
This need, I did never feel...
Never have I even considered this!
And I call myself intelligent? A scientist? A leader?
My priority has been to war? For the sake of peace!
We’d shift our need.
This is the real change.

I belong to the world; this world, my world, our world
Leaders and scientists would fossilize weapons
Store them in museums
We’d all skilfully kill insecurity
The stranger, real foreigner, the intruder, our real enemy.
It will be uprooted from our minds, from this heaven.
This is the real change.

I belong to the world; this world, my world, our world
Greece! O Greece! What marvellous philosophers you gifted
To this world... it is a shame that you are struggling now
With hedge funds... wait...you will get back your grace
Economists will show us how
It is a shame that Beijing and Delhi cannot breathe
Wait... scientists will purify your air and water
Will show us how you’d succeed
No more focussing on other planets
All intelligences will converge towards this tent.
This is the real change.

I belong to the world; this world, my world, our world
Africa! O Africa!
Scientists will invent mud technology to understand
The pattern of your earth
Make every inch of your fifty-eight countries reap wealth
They’d give you a hand
Instead of loans,
Loads of affection, support and effort will pour...
You will be as rich as Australia...
And for this, other continents won’t be insecure
The need to grab will cease, the urge to empower will emerge.
This is the real change.

Like this, all our self-created problems
To win over others will dissolve
We will win this ‘other’ and consume all of it in us...
Different, yet as brothers and sisters
It will prevail in this world, my world, our world
Instead of weapons, we’d flaunt wealth
Celebrate camaraderie and happiness
This is the real change.

I belong to the world; this world, my world, our world
I am an American, a European,
An African, an Asian, an Australian
All at the same time
I am an Afghan, a German
A Pakistani, a Brit, an Indian
A Mexican, a Canadian, a Russian
A Japanese, an Algerian, a Chinese
All at once, all at ease. 



Dedicated to the peoples of all the 233 beautiful countries of the world.

Thursday, January 7, 2016

Promise


















It’s time’s promise to me that I would also grow old
It’s my promise to time, with age I will never be bowed.

The sacred and the scared

















You are unafraid to die, what a skill!
But you are also unafraid to kill!
Are you afraid to love and live?
Are you afraid to believe?

You are afraid of your guide,
You are afraid of the pages,
You are afraid of your pride,
You are afraid of other sages.

You are unafraid with weapons,
You are unafraid with arms,
You are unafraid of the killings,
You are unafraid of allarms!

You are afraid to heal,
You are afraid to be friends,
You are unafraid to steal
You are afraid to mend.

You are unafraid of your hides,
You are afraid to be kind,
You are unafraid of your sides,
You are afraid of your mind.

You are unafraid to be sacred,
Afraid to alter dead thoughts
Unafraid, but you are scared
Afraid to deliver from your corps.

You are unafraid of your folly,
Unafraid to kill the unarmed dead,
Your arms are unafraid and holy,
To turn the green sack red.

You are unafraid to die, what a skill!
But you are also unafraid to kill!
Are you afraid to love and live?
Are you afraid to believe?


One typo in the poem can be excused as a licence to demystify the present crisis. Thank you.

Hands
















Hands, an online bridge, rising from the hearth
Albeit homework for destruction around, connect with the earth,
Nimble fingers clear clouds from the brain, smile with the rain
Despite wars all the time, twenty-four by seven
Solidarity will right and rhyme with heaven.



Dedicated to the peoples of all the 233 countries of the world

Monday, January 4, 2016

ইতিকথা


কথার অন্জলী দিলাম
দিয়ে কথার জলান্জলি
কথার মরণসন্ধিতে পেলাম

কথাম্রিতের ঝুলি

Thursday, December 31, 2015

A year that was, will be


This year passed in confinement.
Detached eyes and ears,
It also passed in sublime seclusion,
Time spent with me, myself
Many times in days and nights
I died and I cried
I also laughed and smiled
I did resurrect.

I lived through my virtual pen
That brought to me loving eyes and listening ears
This year, like the year that was
Without much attached rules and laws
My breathing space of hope and despair
Went... in an unheard fulfilment.
Content.

I have nothing to look forward to
Past is the future without a hint or clue.
Time is the predicament.

Nothing will change
In the minds weird, strange
Hunger for anger all around
Distaste for peace
Starving the poor without ground
Wouldn’t be closer to bliss
That, my pen would reflect.

Except for the sky on which I’d walk
I know the earth would feel
The flowers with whom I’d talk
I know grasses will see
Leaves will drop to heal
Their touch and their smell would come to me
I know, in the form of family and friends
With bones and flesh
Alive and lively for the sake of a few
My heart would beat next year too
With love, without repent.


Wednesday, December 30, 2015

insane journey











The world is raging
With hatred, anger
To avenge the mindless killing
Of innocent lives, war
It is all set to declare;
The Third World War;

Escaping the sight,
From those collective wrath and wry
Sprung a song, in the guise of a dancing cry
For the sake of those same naive lives
Squeezed and stole its way for a tryst
To search for the first world peace.

Earth


















Look...just look at the map!
Names are changing and so are the minds,
We’re not in holes, neither in any lapse
The real change is here, from useless feuds unkind.

Earthnorth America! Earthsouth America!
Eartheurope! Earthafrica!
Earthasia! Earthaustralia and Earthoceania!
Countries on this earth, humming eureka, eureka...

Ears and eyes have opened to the stable moving earth,
Graves of grieves have softened, rejoicing in this re-birth.
New focus is our earth, not any invisible stars,
The mud is set to plough where reaps will heal the scars.

Earthnorth America! Earthsouth America!
Eartheurope! Earthafrica!
Earthasia! Earthaustralia and Earthoceania!
Countries on this earth, humming eureka, eureka...

Words, words, and words we’d all been fighting for words,
Good that now we found the earth in our world.
We’d safeguard still our respective identities,
Like flowers of one garden blooming all at ease.

Earthnorth America! Earthsouth America!
Eartheurope! Earthafrica!
Earthasia! Earthaustralia and Earthoceania!
Countries on this earth, humming eureka, eureka...



Tuesday, December 29, 2015

In conversation with...












In the middle of changes,
The mind is armed.
Unable to deliver from the chains
A slippery surface, a bond
To win is to kill.
The intelligent brain with unmatched skill
That could bring heaven from the sky
Is hurting the earth with wrath and wry,
In chain is the constant destiny
Not changed a bit has our wailing history.

Good leaders of the world,
Old leaders of the world,
New leaders of the world,
Bold leaders of the world,
Guns are for those insecure and scared
Don’t flaunt them, benumb them
Stop this destructive expensive game.
They’re for those helpless cowards
Step in, we need you, come forward.
Join us for a change, please listen to us
Good and old, new and bold leaders
Follow the drum that beats too in your hearts.

An appeal by the peoples of this star
A cry from all the countries without bar
Is to re-build the world with gumption and sense,
Kill the need to scythe with our creative intelligence.

We want a no-weapon world,
A weapon-less world, a weapon-free world,
Focus, our leaders on this timeless troubled floor
Don’t create and market those killers anymore
Stock them now for good in their only asylum
Freeze them now with care in the new museum.
All countries will have one sacred little space
Where heartless treasured arms would coffin all in grace
Flags would fly on top, hum a different unsung tune
That was hiding in the hearts, in the depraved morn and noon.

Those museums, our children would visit and say
‘Once upon a time, we used these to kill and slay
We are out of it now thank goodness
We won’t get killed anymore, good riddance.’

...

Why did you write this poem in my mind?
What is your intention I don’t understand
That which repeats with organs mute and blind
To bring about the change on this history’s land
Do you think it’s possible? This miraculous magic!

Of course yes it is, the hearts are waiting to click
It cannot happen with might, it cannot happen with force
Would happen if you please, by tapping the constant source
You may call it love or by any other name
Present in all of us, in ways just the same
With the peoples of the world, the real power lies
From enemies everywhere, friends will smile and rise
Lively arms would stretch and inert arms will yield
For those who lied on streets, and those who died on fields
Tired objects would rest in silent museum
Minds would all be free, from the insane asylum