Monday, July 28, 2025

সিটি অফ ভয়

সিটি অফ জয় যে হলো
সিটি অফ ভয়, হেথায় 
মারামারির হাওয়া শুধু   
অহর্নিশি বয়।  

মা ছেলেকে জানে মারে
ছেলে মা কে পুড়িয়ে মেরে
রাজ্য করে জয়
সিটি হলো ভয়ঙ্কর এক
ভীষণ জ্বালাময়।  

নেতারা সব ফুটপাতে তে
মাথার ঘামটি পায়ে ফেলে
হাঁটছে দেখো দিনে রাতে
কে কত ভোট ছাব্বিশেতে
ভাবছে করবে জয়।   

জনতার প্রাণ ওষ্ঠাগত
দ্বিধা  আর সংশয়
রক্তবন্যা বয়েই চলে
সহ্য না আর হয়।  

রেপ খুন আর ভ্রষ্টাচারে
বাংলা হলো ক্ষয়
শিক্ষা চাকরি চুলোয় গেছে
বোবা হয়ে তারা এখন 
ঘুঁষের ভাষা কয় 
ভালো যা সব অপাঙতেয়
অচল হয়েই রয়। 

এই নাকি দেশ রবি ঠাকুরের
বিদ্যাসাগর, রামকৃষ্ণের
বিবাদী সব বিপ্লবীদের
বিবেকানন্দ, নেতাজিদের
এখানেতেই মনীষীরা
তাদের জ্ঞানের আলোকেতে
করত আলোকময়
বাংলা ছিল সবার সেরা
কাঙাল দেখো এখন তারা 
ভাবতে লজ্জা হয়।  

সিটি অফ জয় যে হলো
সিটি অফ ভয়, হেথায়
মারামারির হাওয়া শুধু   
অহর্নিশি বয়।  

Sunday, July 27, 2025

অফুরন্ত স্নেহ

দয়াল গড়ে দেহ
মোদের, আমরা গড়ি বাসা,
সারা জীবন ধইরা খুঁজি
ব্যর্থ ভালোবাসা।

যত মোদের হিংসা, নেশা,
চাহিদা আর আশা,
সবই চাওয়া পরের কাছে
ভিক্ষে সর্বনাশা।

যার থেকে সুখ চাই যে মোরা
সেও তো সুখই চায়,
বৃথাই থাকি ফেলফ্যালাইয়া
সময় বইয়া যায়।

যদি একটু দেহের মাঝে
দয়ালেরে খুঁজি,
দেখুম তবে মনের ভিতর
বসত করে কাজি।

স্বার্থক হবে বাঁচা তবেই
স্বস্তি পাবে দেহ,
সকাল সাঁঝে উঠবে ভোরে
অফুরন্ত স্নেহ।

অনেক দিন থহেই ইস্সা আসিল আমাগো ভাষায় একখান কবিতা লিখুম, হেই লিখসি।  আগাসা পোলাপান গুলা আমাগো আবার জ্যালে না পুইরা থোয়।


Wednesday, July 23, 2025

The Scarlet Pimpernel

She is not the rose,
nor the violet dreaming in shade—
nor it is the celebrated lotus
or the golden sunflower
but a whisper on a country wind,
a wonder of creation
a flicker of flame among
brambles and blades.

The scarlet pimpernel—
she does not wait for lovers
in disciplined gardens,
she grows wild on forgotten
paths, her petals pressed
to the breath of the earth,
opening only when the
skies are kind.

She lies open to the morning,
four colors unfurling like mysteries 
whispered across a fevered pulse.
her blush is not innocence,
but the slow burn of want,
sunlight licking the folds
of her petals as if
longing itself had bloomed.

I saw her once beneath
a soft storm sky,
half-shut, as if shy of her
own beauty— and I,
a wanderer in search
of grace, found her there,
trembling like a secret story
on the cusp of speech.

What power she held—
not in grandeur,
but in the ache of
her simplicity, in the way
she turned her face
only to sunlight,
in the way she closed herself
against the threat of rain.

I loved her as one loves
what will not be owned—
as a traveler loves silence,
as the tide adores the moon’s
aloof pull. She opened not
for my touch, but for time,
for truth, for the tender balance
of light and solitude.

And yet—
in that single bloom,
in that flash of red
on a green and reckless field,
I knew what it was to belong,
if only for a moment,
a timely easy company
to something utterly free.

Sunday, July 20, 2025

in between

In between

in between
a mom's lullaby
and the world's goodbye

lies one's life,
the chariot unable
to be subdued
in a line

it slips, it falls, it trips,
it drops, it hops, it flops

much before it's over
one wakes up
from sleep to discover

the game wasn't
a cakewalk,
a sleepwalker's
nightmare

in between
hope and despair

 

entre la vie 

entre la berceuse
d’une mère
et l’adieu du monde, 

se tient la vie de chacun
ce char, impossible
à réduire à une ligne, 

glisse, trébuche,
tombe, se trompe,
chute, puis saute. 

bien avant que
tout ne soit fini,

on se réveille d’un
sommeil — et l’on découvre
que le jeu n’était pas
un divertissement,
mais le cauchemar
d’un somnambule. 

entre l’espoir
et le désespoir

জীবনের মধ্যে 

মায়ের ঘুমপাড়ানি গান
আর পৃথিবীর বিদায়ের মাঝে 

চলে জীবনের পথ,
একটি বাধ্য লাইনে
সীমাবদ্ধ থাকার রথ
সে নয়

পিছলে পড়ে, আঁছড়ে পড়ে,
হামলে পড়ে, ঝাঁপিয়ে পড়ে,
উল্টে পাল্টে যায়, হোঁচট খায়

শেষ হবার আগেই বুঝতে পারে
সে নিদ্রাচ্ছন্ন বিভীষিকার
স্বপ্নের থেকে জেগে 

যে সে খেলা নিছক সহজ ছিল না 

সে বোঝে যে ঘুরপাক খাচ্ছিল সে

আশা এবং নিরাশার মধ্যে  

Saturday, July 19, 2025

End of Sufferings

turn inward,
not to the page of thought,
but to the still white silence
behind the thought—
suffering fades
like stars at dawn

not conquered,
not destroyed—
only seen for what it is:
a mist of dreams,
drifting over a sea
that’s unmoving, at ease

the body aches,
the mind stirs,
the world arrives in a
thousand disguises
to tempt, to frighten, to bind—
but these are only waves
on the surface of the
unbroken mirror
that you are

you are not the body,
you never were
though you dwell in its house
you are not the mind,
though it weaves the
illusion of you
you are awareness itself—
clear, formless, unborn

the moment you forget this,
you wander—
into time, into fear,
into stories that break
your heart and remake it,
only to break it again

this is samsara
the spinning wheel
of names and forms,
of endless becoming,
tireless transactions
with no arrival, no departure

but pause
be still
let the noise pass.

sink into that which notices
the seer, the witness
not what is seen,
but the seeing
not the thought,
but the space it rises from
not even the breath,
but the stillness in which it moves

and here what you hear—
there is no suffering
no you to suffer
only the vast,
infinite,
freedom
of being

let the world whirl
you have remembered
you have returned
from the face in the glass
to your loving trace
by the shining light
an incessant grace

Friday, July 18, 2025

Bodhamātra (awareness alone)

In the dim glow of the theater,
the screen flickers, shadows dance—
a play unfolds, or perhaps a film,
and you, the audience, sit in silence,
watching lives unravel, dreams collide,
yet you remain untouched, an observer

the world spins on, scenes painted in anguish,
joy, laughter, and the weight of despair,
but amidst the chaos, you breathe,
an unseen spirit,
unraveled from the story,
held aloft by awareness,
which knows no binds

the mind is a tangled web,
clutching at threads of desire,
woven with fear and longing,
grasping tightly to moments,
yet losing sight of the ceaseless flow,
while awareness floats,
a silent spectator,
a still pond reflecting the stars,
unmoved by the storm

consider the mother, the newborn
cradled in dreams,
lost in the soft embrace of slumber,
her heart wide, yet her eyes closed,
detached in the sweetest reverie,
holding love without possession,
understanding without grasping

in this great production of lives and times,
you are a single gaze,
perhaps teary or joyful,
but never entwined in the narrative,
a distant star watching,
illuminating the path for
those caught in the fray
let the story unfold, let the
actors embrace their fate,
for in their struggle, you find
the mirror of your soul,
fragile yet fierce, alive yet apart
and as the curtain falls,
remember, it was never about
being in the scene,
but in knowing the dance,
the gentle ebb and flow of existence,
the essence of being—
always observing, always aware,
free in the joy of detachment

you are only awareness
alone,
you are neither the mind,
nor are you mind and
awareness, you cannot
be a horse and a donkey,
an orange and an apple,
you are only the apple,
the apple alone  

In a World Where

in a world where shadows
stretch and bend, 
we gather treasures,
thinking they’ll never end 
fingers clutch at memories,
hearts held tight, 
yet the whispers of time
scatter them like light

we grasp at the moments,
the laughter, the pain, 
a tapestry woven of
sunshine and rain
but each thread we cherish,
each photograph framed, 
is a fleeting reminder that
nothing’s the same. 

we hold on to dreams
like fragile glass wings, 
hoping their beauty will
soften life’s stings
like autumn leaves in
the chill of the breeze, 
they flutter away, with
such effortless ease 

things do not linger
as we wish them to, 
they’re transient echoes
in a world askew
a promise, a trinket,
a love letter's kiss, 
are tokens of time,
reminding us: this, 

is the nature of life,
a relentless retreat, 
where we chase after shadows,
but never complete. 
so we hold on to things,
though they slip
through our hands, 
in the dance of existence,
it’s the moment that stands 

let us find solace, not in
the things, in the laughter
and joy each new day brings 
for while treasures may fade
like the stars in the dawn, 
the heart learns to cherish
what lingers—what's gone   

 

The Lie We Follow

stop searching
the garden is not beyond the gate—
it grows quietly beneath your ribs

stop chasing the mind
its feet are quicksand,
its roads circle back to the place
you began to forget yourself

stop following thoughts
they bloom and wither
in the same breath—
mirages of meaning
in the drought of stillness

that feed on a lie
that there is something
to become
someone to arrive at
a summit to conquer

but you were never a seeker
only the silence,
watching itself wander
let the mind seek
you witness from behind

be the stone unmoved
beneath the river's song
the open sky
through which clouds pass,
but never stay

return to the breath
to the pause between names
to the place
where you do not need to look

because you are
what you were chasing
all along, nowhere to go,
nothing to achieve, nothing
to lose for nothing is lost

Wednesday, July 16, 2025

The Loafer and the Leaf

The Loafer and the Leaf

I watched a loafer by the river lie,
A loaf of bread beneath a weeping sky.
A single leaf danced in the wind's soft sigh,
It seemed to fly, then fall, then kiss goodbye.

His eyes held feeling, raw and undefined,
A fragile hope within a foul-stained mind.
The world to him was false, yet strangely kind,
Where dreams fail, but some still feel inclined.

He spoke: “My heart is frail, yet oddly full,
Of songs unsung, of longings beautiful.
I tried to fill the gaps, to fulfil grace,
But wore the wrong skin in the rightful place.”

He showed me pages from a battered file,
Each line a wound, each word a buried mile.
“Some lines lie,” he said, “we live just to believe,
To fuel our hope, or simply not to grieve.”

A fowl took flight across the evening's hue,
Its wings beat truths the heart already knew.
“To feel is risk,” he whispered. “Still, we try—
To fall, to rise, to breathe, to love, to die.”

So there he lay, a poet, lost in strife—
A loafer maybe, but a lover of life.

 
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Le Rêveur et la Feuille

Je vis un rêveur couché près d’un fil,
Un pain rassis pour seul festin tranquille.
Une feuille d’or tournoyait dans l’air doux,
Puis fit sa chute au bord du monde flou.

Ses yeux portaient des fils d’émotion ténue,
Un cœur si fragile, d’ombres méconnues.
La vie pour lui n’était qu’une fausse voie,
Où l’on peut faillir, même dans la foi.

Il dit : « Mon âme est frêle, à peine en vie,
Mais pleine encor d’un souffle qui défie.
J’ai voulu remplir les creux de l’absence,
Mais j’ai porté le masque de l’errance. »

Il montra les feuilles d’un vieux dossier,
Chaque ligne un cri, un pas oublié.
« On vit parfois des mensonges trop beaux,
Pour nourrir l’espoir, pour fuir les tombeaux. »

Un oiseau gris fendit le ciel du soir,
Ses ailes battaient un vieux chant d’espoir.
« Ressentir, dit-il, c’est prendre un pari —
Chuter, s’élever, aimer, fuir l’oubli. »

Il s’endormit, au bord de son mensonge,
Un rêveur, peut-être — mais dont l’âme prolonge
La douce vie que le monde oublie,
Un feuilleton d’ombre et de poésie.

Monday, July 14, 2025

wandering in wonder

 

entry in between
the show is on

different rooms
disparate voices
diverse roles
discrepant costumes

who is it
who is in
who is out

a sudden exit
a moment falls
nothing halts