That’s How Poetry Is
(Translated by Md Mehedi Hasan)
My mother often tells me—
What would these poems
bring?
My mother often tells me—
What would these poems
bring?
(Translated by Md Mehedi Hasan)
My mother often tells me—
For all latest news, follow The Daily Star's Google News channel. What would these poems
bring?
Rather get a job.
How long will you be like this!
Besides, we're getting old—
someday you'll have to
take care of the family.
I brood in silence
like the leaf that comes flying
from the yellow forest—
I know, all my poems
cannot buy
a day's worth of my mother's medicine!
I know.
Hasan Robayet is a Bangladeshi poet.
Md Mehedi Hasan is a lecturer of English at North Western University, Khulna. He occasionally contributes to Star Literature.