The New Nation - Internet Edition

Human descendant

Syed Lutful Haque

Six crore years ago Were you a human

Or being one of the animals

Lived years thousands and crores

Been one of the monkeys?

Like tiger-lion or wolf

No cruelty you have

Yet hunted with ease

Intelligent than animals you are

Beast-king lion bows you.

Animals have no mask

Defeated by you frequently

You are multi-face like octopus

Kept yourself coloured

Unparallel you the actor.

You are incarnation, vampire

You are father, you mother

You are grabber, you saviour

You are great in kindness and humanity

Human descendant in beings you are.

Translation: Main Uddin Ahmed

Longings

Ferdousi Mahmood

At last you came

Bathed under brilliance of saintly seven stars

Across all barriers of magnanimity

Because of my strong will and determination

Got shelter on shore with soiled body

What was the logic to get involved in mudslinging so fiercely

At last you came

To my sea beach cottage

Why do you fear the down pour

Friendship with shark grows in water only

When tide hits you look at the sky for rain

When it ebbs you sit on dry land

Though I live in shoal

Do you know your weeping makes other cry

And your laughing other weep as well, this I know

Learn to live through experiences

There is no fear

If logic is freed

But pain increases

Translation: Zainul Abedin

It takes a life

Rieta Rahman

One lives through the life

Life yet remains obscure

Learning and unlearning together

Entice one to hope, and

Aspire still the never clear

Loving and unloving stays (so)

In life caring and uncaring

Both come and go

Distress and stresses along

Heed not; alienate and also

Remotes one from

Living and the unliving again,

The spirit yet contains

a sense enbolden spirituality

Marely lingering functionaries

Enliven emcombatent to

Love pursue and encompass

That who rejunivates

A means to aquire

Importance

That yet testifies a secret

Takes a life.

Share market

Mozid Mahmud

The poet has gone to the share market

But I like the tamed dog of Nilkantha

Habitually look for you along the river side

An otter a kingfisher and I a man

Begotten in the moon

Would you buy one? Very profitable!

Ten of Tagore's song

Agnibina Private Limited

Das Dutt and one of two of

Bose Company may be available

Holding these papers in my chest pocket with fingers tight

I have been running in the sun

The sun divides into seven distinct colours

Blue orange yellow and at last

Utter hallucination

Who doesn't love to be drenched in

My nose jaw and arms

Bathe replete in confusion

Within few days so much changes the market

So much rises the point

Beximco Fish sells instead of Tagore Company

Apex Food instead of Rupashi Bangla

and Monno Ceramic instead of you

Acting as the Director of such a major Company

Observing dew drops on paddy-sheaves

Its only I who's advancing to

Your company.