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").
Appetite
There is no appetite in heart,Appetite arises only in body;The infinite desolate appetiteRemains into my two eyes.There is no appetite in heart,For..
© Sayeed Abubakar
The Poet's Beloved
If you surrender to a rich man, he may give you a mansion,Delicious foods, nice clothes and physical pleasure;He may give you a heart as dead as a..
© Sayeed Abubakar
Prayer For Younger Sister Nazma
You are the supreme power,O God. OurAll good and badWhich make happy and sadAre only on your hand.I earnestly believe and understandThere is nothing..
© Sayeed Abubakar
An Isolated Tree's Song
Do you tell me to set my roots into air?Tell me, where had the procession of trees everRaised the slogan of storm and seized the blue skyWith their..
© Sayeed Abubakar
If I Forget You
If I forget you, Love,No doveWill sing in the forests;All the sparrows, leaving their nests,Will fly in the blue skyAnd dieWailing;No springWill come..
© Sayeed Abubakar
First Sin Of Love
Let others say whatever they wish;Why didn't you say 'Love is not a sin'?Why didn't you say standing for a while in the court of love.'He who loves..
© Sayeed Abubakar
Destiny
Abiding by the rules of health strictly,He died at the age of 52.His brother Kesmat Ali smoking punctuallyDied at the age of 80.
© Sayeed Abubakar
Grace Of Perfume
Let us move to that landWhere only flowers are cultivated,Where gardens throughout the yearRemain full of flowers;There men satisfy their hungerOnly..
© Sayeed Abubakar
Meaningless
The foolish birdGets tiredTrying to go out of the blue sky;It may go and go and will dieBefore findingIts end. O Love, I singYour song and will sing..
© Sayeed Abubakar
At Midnight
At midnight I go to bed:Seep doesn't come.In the air I hear the cryOf the oppressed.Someones cry under bombardment,Someones in hunger;Alas! What can..
© Sayeed Abubakar
The Guitar Of Light
It seems someone has cast a dark netAnd the town has become a trout caught in that net;It seems no morning has ever approached here, -The town has..
© Sayeed Abubakar
Country
Birds have no country,Fishes, no;Rivers do not count Army or border.Showing thumbs to all the raising gunsAnd the mighty kings,Rivers run tearing all..
© Sayeed Abubakar
Bangladesh
Sitting on the peak of mountain, whose faceFrequently I see; walking with my belovedOn the streets of Rome, whose words I remember;Like a pet pigeon..
© Sayeed Abubakar
Borderless
Break down all the walls,All the boundaries;The whole world is a countryWhere we live.We are the citizensOf one country, one planet.Let us liveIn a..
© Sayeed Abubakar
A Caged Bird
I am like a caged birdDoes not ever get tiredTo find the way to flyIn the lovely blue sky.I will fly, float and runIn the deep blue ocean.I will sing..
© Sayeed Abubakar
A Tragedy
I have forgotten her face once I loved.I have forgotten her name once I recited in dream.
© Sayeed Abubakar
A Fairy Tale
[Dedicated to the dead rivers of Bangladesh]Once these paths were rivers,These fields the processions of water.One day on these pathsThe princesses..
© Sayeed Abubakar
12.12.12
Those who will read this poem composed in tearsIn twenty second century after one hundred years,Remember, this day of three twelves, we sworeWe would..
© Sayeed Abubakar
A Rose
A rose has bloomed so far,I get smell, can't see her.A rose has bloomed so high,Nose gets smell, can't see Eye.Daylight comes, daylight..
© Sayeed Abubakar
Bangabandhu
How many poems you have written, o Tagore!How many poems, o Jibanananda Das!How many immortal pictures you have drawn, o Zainul!How many songs you..
© Sayeed Abubakar
Forget Me Not
Forget me not,Forget not me.Forget day hot,Keep night with thee.I will touch youIn thought, in dream.My love soft dew,Summer's ice-cream.Forget me..
© Sayeed Abubakar
A Strange Boy
An innocent boy leaving the lap of momOpened his fearful eyes in the war-trodden worldAnd asked in a depressed voice, 'Where have I come? 'I told him..
© Sayeed Abubakar
The Promise of Spring
When Easter comes, the world awakes,The frost is gone, the sunlight breaks.The grass turns green, the sky turns blue,And every heart feels fresh and..
© Easter
Easter Garden
In the garden, lilies bloom,Chasing shadows, lifting gloom.A sign of hope, of life anew,Of love so deep, so kind, so true.The eggs we paint, the..
© Easter