Poetry
Exit wounds
Tell me
I am not a house without exits.
Leave
31 January 2025, 18:00 PM
Tupperware cake
1 and 3/4 cups of sugar, 2 cups of i-love-you
24 January 2025, 18:00 PM
Will you remember me?
When moon fades into dawn and when I pass away with it / Will you think of all that I was?
24 January 2025, 18:00 PM
Kafka says
It’s been so long since we last spoke that I don’t think I can talk to you without confessing something.
There you were, standing before me
10 January 2025, 18:00 PM
New Year resolutions
Wishing you a happy new year! / The coming year? No, years ahead—
10 January 2025, 18:00 PM
Story of one tree
When I come to you, I become a tree
Trees have roots
3 January 2025, 18:00 PM
The shabby turtle without a shore
Some label you a poet of love so true
27 December 2024, 18:00 PM
Poetry books to read on this Victory Day
This year, to observe 16 December, we have curated a list of four diverse yet fascinating poetry books for you to immerse yourself in.
14 December 2024, 12:12 PM
Our Bangla
My Bangla
Sings out every morning
One language
Many songs
13 December 2024, 18:00 PM
Remnants of a burning home
I fell asleep to the chatters of cicadas on a quiet summer night
6 December 2024, 18:00 PM
Albert’s dream
A long stretch of time / passed in prison
29 November 2024, 18:00 PM
Of longings, of belongings
Women and the earth have to tolerate a lot.
–Kaajal (1965)
22 November 2024, 18:00 PM
Jogphal
Healthy water-bodies are sunk by envy-blind waste’s outburst
15 November 2024, 18:00 PM
Unfaithful month
I spent the last night with your lover
15 November 2024, 18:00 PM
My heart is a gilded oligarch
My heart is an oligarch:
A staunch, pot-bellied, knuckle-cracking middle-aged man lounging carelessly, lazily in his sitting room with his limbs spread out on a settee
15 November 2024, 18:00 PM
Inventing love
When Anne Carson said–
All lovers believe they are inventing love,
she was perhaps right
8 November 2024, 18:00 PM
Grief exchange
I carry them openly in these calloused hands
and hold them out to you
could you tell me I'm worthy of love
8 November 2024, 18:00 PM
Serendipity
Wake me up every morning as dawn becomes a new day.
31 October 2024, 10:18 AM
WB Yeats’s ‘Easter, 1916’ and Bangladesh’s July 1-36, 2024
What motivated our youth to defy death in order to free Bangladesh from the yoke of a brutal regime?
28 October 2024, 09:30 AM
Silence
A star fell on the ground in the windy night
18 October 2024, 18:00 PM