Section: «Poems»

Verse (ancient Greek ὁ στίχος — row, structure), a term in versification used in several meanings: artistic speech organized by division into rhythmically commensurate segments; poetry in the narrow sense; in particular, it implies the properties of versification of a particular tradition ("antique verse", "Akhmatova's verse", etc.); a line of poetic text organized according to a certain rhythmic pattern ("My uncle of the most honest rules").

Because I Have Conquered Your Love

I have seen you;I don't look at the ripe mangoes any more.I have heard your voice;I don't hear the songs of cuckoos any more.I have measured your..

© Sayeed Abubakar

New Year

In the sun, in the rainWithout umbrellaA boy beside the roadWorks ceaselessly from dawn to duskBreaking bricks into pieces.He entertains into his two..

© Sayeed Abubakar

Mind Burnt In Love

Mind has been burnt in love;The branches of the cotton treesCovered with flowers;I sense the advent of springThat had appeared in the Age of Ice.

© Sayeed Abubakar

Mind Has Gone Insane

My mind has gone insaneAs if it were a mad-riverFlowing desperatelyBreaking the civilizationOf its two banks.Is there anyone who will comeAnd prevent..

© Sayeed Abubakar

Blue-Eyed Dove

The night is growing dark and deep;And leaving me alone awake,You're going to sleep.I will pass the night for your sakeAnd will cry for your love,My..

© Sayeed Abubakar

Ode To Flower

Toiletries are not necessary for your beauty,Silk-sari and gold ornaments are not necessary;O flower, in which dress you appear, your beautySpeaks..

© Sayeed Abubakar

My Mother

My kind mother, my paradise,When closed her eyes,My earth got lostFast in darkness. Now frostGrows on eyelids.I am now a motherless kidLike a tree..

© Sayeed Abubakar

My Blind Heart

Those who have been rejected in loveMay turn into foe.My blind heart has never fallen in love;Throughout the whole life,It has walked alone on the..

© Sayeed Abubakar

My Blind Heart

Those who have been rejected in loveMay turn into foe.My blind heart has never fallen in love;Throughout the whole life,It has walked alone on the..

© Sayeed Abubakar

O Soil

Soil,Don't be fertile more,Don't be a mother;Child-traffickers, like mad dogs,Are moving everywhere.Don't conceive any green more,Don't conceive any..

© Sayeed Abubakar

Shadow Of A Black Dog

'I have walked across the shadow of a black dog.Alas! What would happen to me? ' saying it,he started crying loudly.I asked, 'What is the problem you..

© Sayeed Abubakar

Now I Hide Myself

When I was babe,I feared darkness and grave.Then I started growingThrowingAll fear aside;And now I hideMyself seeing snake-like men who deny love and..

© Sayeed Abubakar

Ghost

Body is walking but soul is gone.You can touch and kiss.Surely something you will miss.Body is walking but soul is gone.Soul is gone, lips are..

© Sayeed Abubakar

Love Is A Thing

You love the RoseAnd want to get;But it has thorns,Do not forget.You love the Sea,Blue, deep and dark-What a beauty!But it has sharks.You love..

© Sayeed Abubakar

Once And Now

Once you were yoursand I was mine;to our pleasureswe were confined.Now you are mineand I am yours;our refined loveall our pains cures.

© Sayeed Abubakar

Runa Apa's Sweet-Smelling Handkerchief

Now-a-days hatreds wriggle in a swarmWithin my body and soul. Now, when ILook at politics, I feel hatred; whenAt democracy, hatred; when at..

© Sayeed Abubakar

Thieves And Robbers (Poem By Kazi Nazrul Islam)

Who calls you a robber, o friend?Who calls youa thief?All around, the robbers beat their drumsand the thieves reign.Who is the lord of justicejudging..

© Sayeed Abubakar

Man (Poem By Kazi Nazrul Islam)

I sing the song of equality—There is nothing greater than man,More majestic than man.There is no difference of country, age and person;No partition..

© Sayeed Abubakar

King And Subjects (Poem By Kazi Nazrul Islam)

Of equality, I singwhere we all have become brotherswith the same pain.It is a simple question—We are the same children of earthbut why is some a..

© Sayeed Abubakar

Cry Of Eternity

Whose cry, do I hear, mingling with the wavesOf eternity-ocean?Scream of which ethnic groupDo I hear in the endangered air?From the debris of Incas..

© Sayeed Abubakar

How Fast

How fast our hair grows gray!Before we prayOur evening prayer, the night falls.Death callsOur nameBefore attaining our success and fame.

© Sayeed Abubakar

I Understand And Don't Understand

I do not understand beautiful and ugly;I only understand woman, woman's lotus like mindAnd her two hands wet with peace.I do not understand..

© Sayeed Abubakar

Truth

Truth flees like a deer since False chases herLike a tiger.The followers of Truth are in prisons.Many are tortured, kidnapped and murdered.Law laughs..

© Sayeed Abubakar

I Want To Hide Myself

The way a snail conceals its faceGetting afraid of the presence of man;Getting afraid of the presence of man,The way a snake coils whole body;The way..

© Sayeed Abubakar

My Mind Fights

I walk so smartCarrying a destroyed heart.I talk so sweetWhile my heart beatsWith bitterness.I wear the pleasure dressWhile my mind fightsTo survive..

© Sayeed Abubakar