I am the echoes that the walls threw back of each footsteps of mine
seems the phrases used by the sailor, resonate with so many different meanings across the harbour
Or, the cheese has a sharp rich aftertaste with echoes of mine,
salty, earthy, pastures.

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Oneday the moon will not rise
since the mornings and the afternoons
how on earth did you get into such a fix?
Yet the dead signs would be anyhow settled on
Oneday the darkness will be friend
over day and night
Oneday the sun too may not rise
Oneday I may not go to the salon
for cutting or even trimming my hair
Oneday dust would fall
on sleepless nights in my sleepy eyes
Oneday the black hair will be falling out
Sweet cicely may not bloom at all
Oneday the population will decrease in my town
Even after buying the train tickets
oneday People won't return to the village of wild sugarcane
Oneday I will defeat
Oneday I will not go anywhere
You or somebody else will be there to fill the void
while sitting increase your age
Oneday I will find it impossible to rule then,
I will die on a full moon night
Oneday I will not go anywhere.

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কি সুখ আছে ওই দু-ফাঁকের আঙুলের টানে
তরুণীর মুখে চোখে আলো আঁধারি মাখা
ছায়া মতো কি যেন আমাকে তার প্রতি বিরূপ করে
কি যেন গ্রাস করেছে ওকে, ঠিক বুঝি না
মায়া হয় সদ্য একুশে'পা,
কিশোরী মাখা গন্ধ যায় নি যার গা থেকে
ঠোঁট দুটো বিবর্ণ চোখ দুটো নেশাগ্রস্ত
কালচে হয়ে যাওয়া মুখশ্রী

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I have lost my eyes
when I was mid-twenty
but I have no regrets
rather feel very lucky
not have it anymore
because those who could see
are much sufferers than me.

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The moon's round orb would shine high in the sky,
casting its velvety light on everything.

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The words are effaced by the rain, with time.

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R ainy days, when empty pages and blank spaces beckon, we have all sat there

A nd the sound of her voice recalled their rainy night meeting,
when she first spoke to him,

I n another wet rainy night!
oh! would be welcome gift for both of them

N one of them could expect either,
it's so wonderful scenario, on the contrary
couple like them had to contend with
widespread sunshine
after a disappointing cloudy and rainy period.

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আগুন জ্বলছে সারা শরীর জুড়ে
তবে এ কেমন আগুন যা বিপ্লব ঘটায় না
স্তিমিত হয়ে যায় ঠান্ডা'র হালকা আমেজ পেলেই
বাজার দর আগুন ছুঁই ছুঁই
তাপমাত্রা পারদ উষ্ণতা ছুঁয়েছে
তবু ও এ আগুন বিপ্লব ঘটায় না
উষ্ণতার পারদ নেমে আসে
শীততাপ নিয়ন্ত্রিত ঘরে বসলেই
ধিকিধিকি জ্বলে কোথাও কোথাও
সভাসদগণ আখ্যা দেন বিচ্ছিন্ন ঘটনা
তবে এ ঠিক দাবানল রূপ নেয় না

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Our home,
a short walk down a narrow hilly street
The house was built at the very top of the hill
It's quite hilly,
has a small beach and a declining population
which leaves sunny, friendly region ripe for exploring
I watched the sun set behind
some truly beautiful hilly green scenery
We moved down at the very last
from exposed hilly country to farmland or the coast
my heart used to beat for you, oh! hill
my heart is still beating, still,
as if I'm now on the hilly region
at its own rhythmic version
right into the hilly bits we go,
and the gap remains at the six minutes or so,
It's a pretty place with a duck pond,
play area and hilly woodland
The signals got lost in the terrain
I, making my years count instead
of counting the years
how soon I get back to you every now and then
Yess, my heart used to beat for you

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M emories, my dad has a selective memory: he remembers
the times he was right and forgets the times he was wrong

M emories, we had really such an unusuals or uniques of him,
sometimes, tried to repress bitter ones

M emories, some never fade, they only grow stronger with time ,
if bad, hurts the most, hits hard, remained after a while
like moles can't remove from the skin

M emories, whether, are timeless treasures of the heart

M iraculous it is, every moment in the making, moment afterwards.

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