as the clouds drop the rain
or the wind carries the cloud
something is here which I have
not got ever, yet I feel the weight
and have its shadow pouring down
like rain from the bursting cloud
and without wind it creates a storm
in absence it emits some sweet fragrance
though the trees are motionless and
obedient is the heaven yet I do not know
how to drop or how to carry the boisterous
presence coming from its semblance
খুঁজে পেলাম চকিতে নিজেকেআমার এক পূর্বের অতি পরিচিত জায়গায়নিমেষে গেলাম মিশে অধিবাসীদের সাথেহয়ে গেলাম তাদের মতো, তাদের মধ্যে একজনঅতি আনন্দে হয়ে গেলাম পশুএখন আমার তাদের মতো নেই চাহিদা, নেই অভাবচলছে দিন কাটছে সুখে নাই কোন অভিযোগশুধুই আছে রাশি রাশি প্রসন্নতাআর আছে আত্মতৃপ্তি যা আমাকে ঘিরেবলয়ের মতো ঘোরেআর এখানে নেই এমন কেউ পাগলযে আমাকে ভুতের ভয়…
Written previously on the themesIn the same tone and in the same rhythmWith the same flow and with the same schemes;Everyday I rise and confront the same sunThe same moon I leave behind each nightBefore I go to bed to sleep after midnightNo change I see even in the new dawn;I am tired of the…
but they have not sung meI am the songUnsungThough I have the best beatI move with a great rhythmYet I have not been put on musicThe reason I know notNor I want to knowAs it could be anythingBut I am sure that it is not their abilityNeither the quality which I carryIf any one sings…
I find nothing inside it that could be given to meNo power, no moneyNo glamour, not even a tinge of MadonnaSometimes I feel I got a blessed lifeOn anything, if I wish, I can writeThis is a big lottery I wonThe power, it wields more than a transformerWith the passage of time when glamour vanishesThe…
Palestine belongs to the ArabsIn the same sense thatEngland belongs to the EnglishFrance to the FrenchIt is wrong and inhumanTo impose Jews on the ArabsSurely it would be a crimeAgainst humanityTo reduce the proud ArabsSo that Palestine can be restoredTo the JewsPartly or whollyAs their national home.
And rush to staunchly support meAnd squash all the allegation pitted against me andAnd term me an honest or innocent and set me freeYet I won’t go to support meI am strongly against myselfAs I found myself guilty in counts more than thirty threeIn telling lies and hatching conspiraciesIn slandering people and in biting back…
