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A Collection of Contemporary Poems (and their Translations) Originally in Bengali by Raad Ahmad

This site contains poems in Bengali taken from the book ‘ Ak Tebiler Odhibashy ’ (Natives of the same table) with each poem translated into English., originally written in Bangla by Raad Ahmad, one of the young contemporary poets of Bangladesh. He is a poet whose poetry often consists of broken meter or phrases. Click on the links below to move to a new poem.

The Night of the FULL Moon A Day in My Life When I was in Shahbag My Letter's Not COMPLETE Yet The FOREIGNERS in Vigor The TORN FLOWER I Don't Know SORROW In the Restaurant AristocraticWatch How the Holy Wind Discovery In the Year Two Thousand From Inside a CAR The IDB Building in MIDST of A Storm THE FUNERAL Two of us Torn by the GLASS on the Window On the FOLLOWING Day of the Bomb BlaST in THE PEOPLES Assembly WHO for YOU Where ShaLL YOU go I Talk to the GENOMES Inside STANDING in Lalmatia - I am TOO a Player I Am but the PLANTATIONS of Lemon TREES HeADINg for Maymensingh a POET Beside a POND CO-Ordinates
SUNRAYS for YOU To VINCENT Welcome to the Young KING WRisTwaTcH CONTACTS

Even in Two thousand

I see ghosts all around even in the year two thousand – they keep on laughing around me, dancing, put their hands on computers on keyboards and laugh and torn away the streets and the rivers the trees the markets - I see bodies that are amassed in fear – like clouds – they keep on floating away afar

They say you wont find any sorcerers in the cities – as if they live in the country sides – and suddenly put forward their twisted feet in your front - but even in the midst of all the streets and shops and supermarkets all I see are zombies and devils laughing with their sizzling white teeth like the sizzles on the products you find in the shops…


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