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Mozid Mahmud Poem
Hugging an Arjun tree can lower blood pressure
Its bark has a great medicinal value for heart diseases
I truly want to marry a magnificent tree like this
If the heart beats get faster
Blood pressure rises
She will embrace me
offer me to drink her sap
undressing her bark-cloth
Do activate your heart
I am a live-tree, though no pains
no complaints
Rather I cook all day in the fire of the sun
And when the night falls
I stand all alone
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Mozid Mahmud Poem
Those who knew me—no one lives in the neighborhood anymore
Play danguli or whistle with lips, those who knew me
no one lives anymore, not everyone’s life goes same
Probably all know or no one knows at all
Heard the name? Rustom, who could knock one down
enough to forget dad’s name, was from our locality
and broke his few teeth in a rowdy danguli game.
A nightmare ruined sleep. Mum said not to go out anymore
Those who knew me—no one lives in the neighborhood anymore
Women gave charming, lopsided looks through the window, curly hair
The air stopped blowing. Walk away my boy, I say
The fire’s gone out; has he really forgotten the painful memories, too?
Those who knew me—no one lives in the neighborhood anymore
Move away of the road; jackals, one or two, might get crushed under feet
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Mozid Mahmud Poem
Let those kids get home late
We reach on foot a bit early
Let them visit the river--a corporal fullness
We tidy up, dishes had been untidy for long
Old daddy at home
Mom no more, never was
Brought us up with care
with clay, in own hands
Our kids—our siblings
would get home back when exhausted
No need to worry unreasonably
We go home walking a little on foot, a bit early
Our kids
Our siblings
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