{"id":98,"date":"2020-09-28T19:29:39","date_gmt":"2020-09-28T19:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chintasutra.com\/english\/?p=98"},"modified":"2020-10-03T17:17:13","modified_gmt":"2020-10-03T17:17:13","slug":"five-poems-by-farhana-rahman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chintasutra.com\/english\/five-poems-by-farhana-rahman\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Poems by Farhana Rahman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Birds are flying in the autumn air<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span>What do I see when I look at a wall?<br \/>\nA boat; I\u2019m sitting there<br \/>\nWhat more?<\/p>\n<p>A river<br \/>\nSurrounded by the hills<br \/>\nNumerous halcyon flying in the autumn air<br \/>\nI sprinkle them food<br \/>\nAnything\u00a0 more?<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve given them a safe place<br \/>\nThat I don\u2019t have either<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>It\u2019s Raining<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span>It may raining somewhere heavily<br \/>\nFear is mixed up there<br \/>\nHidden scenes are there too<br \/>\nExtinct childhood as well<br \/>\nBut still I want to let float those firs by the shadows of twilight<br \/>\nHaze laughter<br \/>\nAll the way to self knowing, chains of feet<br \/>\nLet to vanish bright shine of the face<br \/>\nLet the desire to burn on ashes<br \/>\nIt\u2019s meant to go away<\/p>\n<p>And every going plays depressing Esraj<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Memory<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span>I look forward to the past<br \/>\nAnd the platform leaves me away<br \/>\nAfter a long absence<br \/>\nAll of the known passages float in the vacuum<br \/>\nBut I\u2019m walking towards the same way<br \/>\nInside from outside<br \/>\nHigh to low<br \/>\nAll I know is that<\/p>\n<p>The echoes rolled down on the memories only<br \/>\nAnd all of a sudden it shuffles me in all the way.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Feminine gesture<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span>Life that danced in feminine gesture<br \/>\nLike the heroine of a wonderful story of a pleasant joy<br \/>\nDreamer rotates a wheel in gray vacuum<br \/>\nBut I fly and remain in the country of clouds<br \/>\nPale of whiteness stagnant and accumulate dust there<br \/>\nThe way a frozen body float in a vacuum boat of a abandon restaurant<br \/>\nThe desire of waking up by breaking the water<br \/>\nPurely decorated as Indra<br \/>\nThe dark fir and brutality remains behind the scene<br \/>\nSometimes light comes down to dim and off to the distance blue sky<\/p>\n<p>But there couldn\u2019t have such a failure story as well.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Dark well<\/span><br \/>\n<\/strong>Every human being is carrying the huge ocean of immense sorrow<br \/>\nAnd countless people drowned there in this dark well<br \/>\nThe dreaded restless dark winks flutter like a flying bird!<br \/>\nHave you ever thought?<\/p>\n<p>How many hundreds of vultures wings plays in this gray city of break forest<br \/>\nThere comes down fossils of deep winter<br \/>\nIn my addicted eyes when I see your irresistible rule<br \/>\nI feel like fog<br \/>\nThe entire day I have drawn the tunes of color coatings in this soundless sea beach<br \/>\nI have tied <em>Mouhua<\/em> flowers anklet to my legs<br \/>\nOnce you said that dust storms of gray foam fly on the door of roads<br \/>\nIn this trading oriented civilized country<br \/>\nWhen springs comes like silent cry leaves fall in the midst of fatigue<br \/>\nAnd the road of smooth pitch mixed with love in the deepest sea\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Birds are flying in the autumn air What do I see when I look at a wall? A boat; I\u2019m sitting there What more? A river Surrounded by the hills &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":100,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,1],"tags":[56],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editorspicks","category-poetry","tag-farhana-rahman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chintasutra.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chintasutra.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chintasutra.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chintasutra.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chintasutra.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/chintasutra.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131,"href":"https:\/\/chintasutra.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions\/131"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chintasutra.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chintasutra.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chintasutra.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chintasutra.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}