Ashik Mahmud

I am moved without moving,
Moved by a photo and stuck for a while
All those heavens with no clouds!
Or, the river seems to be a stunned mirror
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Of Dry Petals
Dry Petals may seem prosaic
Like blank verses of the evening
Tuned with symphonies of silver moon and stars around
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Oh my dreams, favourite dreams-
do not return, never try even;
Never come back, I am done with you
You have surfeited long enough.
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Snow looks best when it falls,
Rain does not exist until it falls,
Falls looks Falls when it falls,
Man becomes Man when he falls.
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There was a tree in the age
Before the Ice age, A Green Tree-
It had Everything and brain like Icarus
In its root; Like Doctor Fostus
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How could you do this to me?
What makes you do this to me?
You just left me, alone on the shore!
Of an entire ocean blue, I never adore!
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In the skull-
An endemic season blooms with summer snow;
So a Jupiter, masters all winds marched for spring show.
In the skull-
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Eyes have ceased time for another blink;
Seeing
Yet stoned at the feeling station,
Catalyzing a feeling of happy-to-be-fallen,
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The river is still here
It was used to be ours.
The river you came by
It was used to be ours.
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Twice a Dream twice in a row
In a single sleep raw, but could not trace
Was it in deep sleep or déjà vu of dreams?
Twenty five years of sleeping experience
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We have lost our tastes
Taste that used to be poets
Or, we had no taste and yet to have one,
Those who understand poems
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Our world is not like yours
It's neither Indian nor European
Desert is far away
Bay is just an inch away
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The sweetest colour of orange
May bloom for the dry poles,
The sweetest colour of star apple
May switch season for black holes,
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They act like
Muslims can't be Indians
Even though dogs can be
Even European dogs
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