⁠⁠Poetry

⁠⁠Poetry

Poetry / Three songs: Kazi Nazrul Islam

Ami chiratare dur-e chole jabo.(I will go far away forever).I’ll go far away forever—.yet I won’t let myself be obliviated..I’ll turn air to knot your hair.when the bun gets loose..Immersed in your tune.when the sky dozes, wind weeps,.with teary ey

6d ago

The whirring

“What will come out of all this?” The day starts with the devil flying overhead,

1w ago

POETRY

Do you remember the sunset on the 18th of July? What colour was it?

1m ago

Poetry / The lost rhythm

Summer has imprinted crow’s feet under my eyes, .Yet I have aged only a quarter. .That’s was when .I dunked myself—starting with the crown of my head—into the ocean where The southern sun resides, to imprint upon my face its sheen, .rhythm of miracles, and to honour it wi

1m ago

Poetry / Maturing

Always the same whining about the distances, always the same

1m ago

Poetry / Ashen bloom

The air tasted of burnt sugar and broken vows–sweetness clinging to the char. It began with a whisper, then the slow, inevitable searing of what we believed was solid ground.

1m ago

POETRY / Wings of ash

and for every grave / a firefly burns / and for every grave / Dhaka never learns

1m ago

KHERO KHATA / Scorching silence

Scorching in a way the April sun never was. / Scorching in a way a fever never feels. / It wasn't just grief

1m ago

Three songs: Kazi Nazrul Islam

Ami chiratare dur-e chole jabo.(I will go far away forever).I’ll go far away forever—.yet I won’t let myself be obliviated..I’ll turn air to knot your hair.when the bun gets loose..Immersed in your tune.when the sky dozes, wind weeps,.with teary ey

6d ago

The whirring

“What will come out of all this?” The day starts with the devil flying overhead,

1w ago

POETRY

Do you remember the sunset on the 18th of July? What colour was it?

1m ago

The lost rhythm

Summer has imprinted crow’s feet under my eyes, .Yet I have aged only a quarter. .That’s was when .I dunked myself—starting with the crown of my head—into the ocean where The southern sun resides, to imprint upon my face its sheen, .rhythm of miracles, and to honour it wi

1m ago

Maturing

Always the same whining about the distances, always the same

1m ago

Ashen bloom

The air tasted of burnt sugar and broken vows–sweetness clinging to the char. It began with a whisper, then the slow, inevitable searing of what we believed was solid ground.

1m ago

Wings of ash

and for every grave / a firefly burns / and for every grave / Dhaka never learns

1m ago

Scorching silence

Scorching in a way the April sun never was. / Scorching in a way a fever never feels. / It wasn't just grief

1m ago

Even in hell, chanachur

And I realised: / even in the line to hell, / waiting for punishment, / we'd still reach for chanachur. / We'd still find comfort / in the crunch of survival

2m ago

Things I have had to forfeit and things I am unable to find

Patience, like moss, that grows on red soil. Conversations with friends, like inadequate breakfast.

2m ago