Farrukh Ahmad Poems

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11.
From Outside Of The Cradle

You swing the cradle from outside without rest,
It swings up and down with two refrains;
One brings deep sleep, other breaks the slumber.
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12.
The Brilliant Lamp: Muhammad Mustafa (S.M.)

He rises over the eastern blue horizon with a gorgeous hue,
His presence over the sky always spreads in a moment
O the luminous bird, are you awake? Will the night-suppressed voice
Travelling in the enormous void now sing about the day?
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13.
In The Meadow Of Mainamoti: 3

Many people saw that tired traveller who came
From a far-off land in the faint moon-light
Wearing a coffin-cloak in the chilly autumn night,
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14.
The Train

The long-awaited rain has come with the easterly wind!
Rain has come on arable villages beside the Meghna and the Padma
The scorched sky and fields are now covered with black shadows;
That lovely fairy, lightning, rides from cloud to cloud.
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15.
The Mind

My mind is like a whale in the approaching evening
That dives into the night's sea;
Yet I hear that far-off sound
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16.
The Background

The 8-30 AM train left ejecting its nightly contents:
Sleepless people with hot head
Walk on both sides of the road like cold reptiles;
Also walk human forms as symptoms of cruel citizen's bestiality.
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17.
The Youth-Brigade

The simoom spreads its windy hair,
The sky and the wind echo
The light foot-steps of its coming−
The desired torture of the favourite one.
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18.
From 'Dilruba' 5th Canto, No 6

Please don't give new information or talk of spirituality,
I have heard much about it from erudites
But found no peace or solace therefrom,
The unappeased heart could not quench its thirst.
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19.
Night At Kanchra Para

Night at Kanchra Para. The broken rail-engines are in the depot now.
The cracked boilers puff out long sighs in their rest−
Their movement obstructed. The mechanics then come
And bring molten steel and hammer again and again.
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20.
From &Quot;Naufel And Hatem&Quot;

I have seen many sprawling meadows,
Many deserts, fields, forests and crowded cities.
Many strange lands have I seen. Sometimes
I have seen savage darkness swallowing up this world of ours
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