⁠⁠Poetry

⁠⁠Poetry

POETRY / Escape

You thought you had escaped, didn't you? / Outran everything that weighed you down

6d ago

POETRY / Mould

A quiet, seniority in its touch, / A tenderness that feels like it's meant to last

6d ago

POETRY / Delila’s quest (20 October 2014)

Li’l Del is walking all alone Li’l Del wants to find her way home.

1w ago

POETRY / Memory speaks

Sometimes at early dawn / You overpower my eyelids / And won’t let me wake up

2w ago

KHERO KHATA / Making headlines

We'll put up feigned politicians / And their fake promises instead

2w ago

KHERO KHATA / Bluebird’s anthology

Who do I tell, sir? The walls do not listen, The roads do not answer back

2w ago

POETRY / What does a tomb look like?

Let us talk about death. Let us talk about funerals.

3w ago

POETRY / The Birangona, un-buried

What matters when there's a Motherland to defend? 

1m ago

There is a point to this, I think

Here are a few things I learned in the one month we haven’t spoken

1m ago

Broken bridges don’t burn

face to face, 20 taka in my pocket and this keyless map do you think love ever ends?

1m ago

Sighs, ember and lies.

Pebbles strewn pavement Keep drawing me back

1m ago

Moving forward

I hope you fight with your mother when you have a migraine, / I hope there's a holud ceremony playing item songs right beside your building

1m ago

This world is full of paper

at night I look past my window / moon like a bruise hoisted on the shoulder of onlookers / as they draw their curtains

1m ago

Hilly river

Imagine it’s raining cats and dogs The hilly river has let the hair loose

2m ago

I’m but a butterfly

I’m but a butterfly, not a bird; Why do I want to soar high?

2m ago

The melted melody of a surreal life

Tell me, how far you want to descend  Into your own abyss? 

2m ago

Exit wounds

Tell me I am not a house without exits. Leave

2m ago

Tupperware cake

1 and 3/4 cups of sugar, 2 cups of i-love-you

3m ago