Poems of Shahed Kayes

New Reality Being Formed

My thoughts are birds of time

My heart is overwhelmed exploring the flow of time
It no more runs after fen-fire birds
Life is a living poem, I realize

My moments are now extreme Kavery
Tiny bits of life flourish therein
Moments which brighten the dark;
Birds of light pass flashing their wings

A strange dream begins to enliven life, at such times
It feels good to be alive;
Mysteries fill my cup

My proud, golden sail – she treads alone –
away into her own wild
And my thoughts; the birds of time
Fly, from life, to life.

Mayadip School

A play of light and shadow, this is
The play of death and life

It keeps pulling me towards itself
At dawn – the childhood of day – darkness packs up,
its serene wings
Bay-hostesses awaken
Their eyes – sleepless, red, fire stricken
Therein the magic of transformation
On the flowing Meghna shore;
Life is, yet, partially truthful
It flows central, between two deep sighs

Between the narrow paths of dreams and nightmares
Water sets its affairs, in and around
Homes of the golden clouds
And, our morning children awaken, one by one.

Shahbag Movement

And this is how
Our dreams become subject of constitutional rape

Waters are rising somewhere, in secret
In symbols of victory they carve faces of evils
These preposterous acts
And despicability, in the name of justice,
Should stop today

The deeper we go into the night
The New Generation Square is more awake
Facebook literally walks to the street;
Today, the whole country is Shahbag

The whole country is singing songs of freedom
The light of liberation –
of nineteen seventy one – spreading like music aloud
Today, our country is awake

Illuminated with youthfulness; rays of realizations
New reality is being formed –
Wake up people, our back is stuck

THE AUTHOR
Shahed Kayes was born in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on September 16, 1974. He was brought up and educated in Sonargaon, Dhaka in Bangladesh, Chennai in India, and Gwangju in South Korea. At present, he is studying in the master’s degree program in human rights at Chonnam National University (CNU) in Gwangju.

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