poem
Photographing Muslim women: How Sufia Kamal broke the camera taboo
Sufia herself faced no trouble for having her photograph printed, but her poem did create difficulties.
20 November 2025, 07:28 AM
Ink and Tree
If every leaf that falls
is a memory you’ve forgotten,
then let my ink become rain—
so you might remember
how it felt to grow with me.
16 November 2025, 10:01 AM
Transmutation
The torn tune of a broken violin.Signifies the evanescence of joy..So many faded voices intermingle .This day and the night. .Moonlight has disappeared .In the sky overcast with commingled clouds. .The wind is sombre with the sadness .Of Bismillah’s ‘she
10 October 2025, 19:10 PM
Durga
In the hush—footsteps fill the laden streets, .grasshoppers teeth to return home. Veiled divine mother, .she blooms in shards—from under the rain.from beyond the sallow moon.in her lion’s gait… tidal sorrow pushing through .your swallowing metropolitan heap. .
3 October 2025, 19:29 PM
Your hands shook the whole time
Winters feel less like winters, the sun
burns on my fragile skin. December. Tell me it’s
12 September 2025, 18:54 PM
The fire that has no shape
What do you carry in your heart’s bundle?
A lineage?
5 September 2025, 18:59 PM
Three songs: Kazi Nazrul Islam
Ami chiratare dur-e chole jabo.(I will go far away forever).I’ll go far away forever—.yet I won’t let myself be obliviated..I’ll turn air to knot your hair.when the bun gets loose..Immersed in your tune.when the sky dozes, wind weeps,.with teary ey
29 August 2025, 19:48 PM
The whirring
“What will come out of all this?”
The day starts with the devil flying overhead,
22 August 2025, 19:26 PM
Wings of ash
and for every grave / a firefly burns / and for every grave / Dhaka never learns
22 July 2025, 09:10 AM
Scorching silence
Scorching in a way the April sun never was. / Scorching in a way a fever never feels. / It wasn't just grief
18 July 2025, 19:40 PM
Even in hell, chanachur
And I realised: / even in the line to hell, / waiting for punishment, / we'd still reach for chanachur. / We'd still find comfort / in the crunch of survival
4 July 2025, 18:52 PM
The poetry of rain
It would rain in the rains / And the rest of this poem would be written by someone else
27 June 2025, 18:43 PM
Maybe a mirage
Something you may... You may never find again.
26 June 2025, 10:25 AM
How to: live
My love always arrived wrapped in silence, wrapped in dust. But that was childhood.
26 June 2025, 10:19 AM
Heart, cling to me
We will make meaning out of the holes in the sun
26 June 2025, 10:13 AM
Writing a memoir
There’s a purgatorial break between these stretches
…flaxen against the lights
20 June 2025, 19:10 PM
The people within me
I am not a single name.
Not a single wound.
13 June 2025, 19:45 PM
Fragments
Grey chips of rough cement
Rust rubble all around,
13 June 2025, 19:45 PM
Mosaicked wounds
This was the way it ended: not with fire,
But carried quietly under sleep-beds,
13 June 2025, 19:45 PM
I loved you because I did
So go in peace, be free, be kind.
8 June 2025, 09:00 AM