At dusk when my shadows retreat
...At dusk when my shadows quit me,
That’s when hundred arrows hit me.
So far some faceless folks fooled me,
My own close to heart now cheat me.
A feeling heart hails thee, my friend,
Come hear...
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Categories:
daylong, dream, friend, love, passion,
Form: Ghazal
My muse aligned
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The sun danced on lightened leaves, my muse aligned, in zeal
Greenery of palms with the windy tantrum, touched me , still
The tribal walkway and the rural patsy rushing for more, in pace
The vil...
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Categories:
daylong, april,
Form: Free verse
Mind, a dancer on stage
...I picture mind as an immense seaside,
Thoughts as random waves soon to fade away
As does a rising and receding tide,
Like weeds, what they leave survive welcome stay.
At times there endures s...
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Categories:
daylong, self,
Form: Sonnet
No body killed me, in our lives of Odyssey - a translation from Jibanananda Das , Poet and writer
...No body killed me, in our lives of Odyssey
No body killed me, in our lives of Odyssey - they are no longer to be seen
There are crows in abundance around this balcony- yet, the tired one I knew ...
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Categories:
daylong, loss,
Form: Free verse
The River inspired by the poem of Jibonananda Das
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The rye mustard field, glowing with a morning diva, faded in colors within afternoon
The river runs just beside ;
“O reverie! What shall the song be in the chanting verse, unsung in me and th...
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Categories:
daylong, allegory,
Form: Free verse
LOVE POEM
...Turn to me, ohh ! Little ONE
Turn to me,
If loving you is a crime
So let US be the murderS that killed time In just a matter of seconds.
you whom i would behold till the dawn of time!
Allow me...
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Categories:
daylong, blue,
Form: Free verse
The Hungry Stones III
...In scarce a week the place began to weave
A weird fascination upon me,
Nigh hard to bear, harder still to believe,
I felt as if a dragon from a sea
Was slowly digesting me in tight noose,
A...
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Categories:
daylong, allusion, bangla, fantasy, mystery,
Form: Narrative
Our Mother a Literary Translation of Humayun Azad
...We knew more about our mother. While, father was a revered persona , a bit distant.
Our mother was always an undertone in front of father, an unrecognized delicate privacy, worn out
Her lingering i...
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Categories:
daylong, mother,
Form: Free verse
Sighing Breeze Whispers
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Oh "the silent song of the sighing breeze"_
and melody of the birds chirping song,
the gentle swaying of the forest's trees;
sounds that mingle and twine . . . the whole daylong...
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Categories:
daylong, introspection,
Form: Quintain (English)
A Solitary Stranger
...A Solitary Stranger
Lonely a soul, he, waits there daylong, a lonely stranger, he
To knit the finest webs of dreams, one of the most delicate kinds.
Gazing, out there, with brimming eyes he pon...
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Categories:
daylong, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
You Are the First Hour of Morning Delight
...You are..
The first hour of morning delight
A lonesome afterglow of twilight
A fatigued afternoon, slowly passing for only an hour.
You are..
All day round a maple leaf, a fallen Aesop, elsewh...
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Categories:
daylong, may,
Form: Free verse
Saturday Matinees
...Almost evening.
The smell of seaweed hanging
on whispers coming up from the beach.
I sit in the backyard, rearranging thoughts,
trying to fit shapes into what's missing
in that vast mosaic I ha...
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Categories:
daylong, film, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
The Pub - Different
...Enter the pack
With a slap to the back
To the heart of a commonplace place
Leave the charade
Of your daylong crusade
Here’s the end of the common man’s race
Belly the bar!
You won’t have to...
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Categories:
daylong, drink, pain, parody,
Form: Rhyme
Danna O Menel Palan-Diriel ::Fall From Heaven Gazing Far::
...A direct sequel to my poem, Abeyance. Linked at the end
Danna O Menel Palan-Diriel
(Fall From Heaven Gazing Far)
My tattered wings are gone,
And falling from their gaze,
I listen to the skie...
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Categories:
daylong, 11th grade, deep, fire,
Form: Rhyme
Life Moves Forward In Brotherhood
...A man had two horses, each a fine stallion, both buddies and good friends. It so happened, one of them lost eyesight in an accident. For the safety of the blind horse, the owner fixed some copper bel...
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Categories:
daylong, brother, introspection,
Form: Terza Rima
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