The New Nation - Internet Edition

Humankind

Md. Maiz Uddin

Life and livelihood constant demand

For thou and thine dependent

Who're to survive within struggle

Of hunger, stability, deformity and

Social taboos to turn out from society.

Thanking for the crown not for downward,

Trying thy to achieve the human award

But dustbin and the den art their

Dwelling shed, though their crying tears

Rolling down to check, unbearable pinching

In the heart, broken skeleton, artery trembling,

Food and stuff claiming and crying.

Urchins on the street hunger to meet

Searching and melting in the dustbin

Though the rich laughing,

Within passion they'ye hugging

Their near and dear one

Heap of stuff uncared thrown.

Depriving and craving they're

To the vanity of human kind

Luxury and comfort makes them blind.

Change Climate

Mohammad Shahidul Islam

Finally

The elderly forests

Overlapped and layered, packed far down

Roofed with sand, rock, dust, mud,

Deep dead dark forests turned into coal.

The grand-forests are on fiery flash Powering:

Titanic, train, plane,

Car, fridge, oven and electric guitar

Assassinate Blue-green-Earth!

The sea floods, the water is mounting,

Our fields are flooding, our animals are dying,

Sidr! 29th April! 1970!

We scream and shout:

Help! Help! Help! There's water all about,

We climb the mountain and

Now we're safe (?) t

Laughing! Laughing! Laughing!

Alas!

Skyline village is crowded and cold.

People are trampling all over the crops.

Hereafter t

White! White! White!

Come on everybody! Come on Bangladesh! Come on Earth!