The ghosts of Halloween Have gone away as the midnight fell The Moon has drizzled the drops Of silvery light on the sleeping beauties. The children and the collected candies Are submerged in a candid[…]

In a world which apparently is darkened by demonic thoughts Distressed and disgraced by immeasurable errors Where globalization confines itself merely to googled thoughts And Where organic feelings melt into mechanical manipulations Let us break[…]

[A transliteration of my Bengali poem একগুচ্ছ প্রশ্ন ; উত্তর: শূণ্য written on the passing away of my dear friend Ziauddin Faruque] In these days of traffic jams You travelled so fast That in a[…]

Amidst the gaping gap between the static platform And the moving train, always have I felt lost. As I moved towards dynamic destination An invisible voice reminded me to mind the gap. A cold hand[…]

In nature’s parliament As the snow has overruled the sunny possibilities And the chilly winds have mercilessly Executed the much cherished cherry flowers The warmth is decimated in my household thermometer And I feel like[…]

The bubbles of babbling words rally In the morning and the evening at your cozy balcony At times you drink wine of words in tumbler And stay submerged in silent intoxication, Amidst the jingles of[…]

When demonic thoughts divide this earth of ours And break the peace into pieces Amidst the distress of the divisiveness Desperately I look for peace, a lasting peace. My battered butterfly heart longs for the[…]

When a handful of crooked people Rejoiced in the droplets of favor Which the enemy showered miserly on us Some even, belched in shameless satisfaction. It was, then O Father you raised your finger And[…]

Soft and silky words blossom on your tender lips And melt like colored bubbles in thin air Or, perhaps, like divine music, they are echoed In my cloud shrouded sky within the self. Uttered words[…]

The desolate desert heart of the old Banyan tree Happily touched by dew-dropped rains unexpectedly Brought the tears of joy in his murky eyes, just the other day Its top-most branch burnt in scorching sun,[…]