Current Rhythm

listing vessels clip

the wind before tongue’s shore

a restless rift riding crest 

     and 

     dive under electronic scrutiny 

               tabletop bossa nova

                                      outstretched 

passenger fury alembic

a cattle prod addendum

detached 

                a mid-vista toilet stomper

      plugged again 

                a nightmare born to knit

          persuasive entities 

               voltage unleashed 

                    liminal fury honed

                           disturbing appendix vapor

where the hash flies

bolt navel gates before aplomb

can wash the dishes

      driving estuaries past water tablets

no mast shifts its rhythm

porridge lifts its latent pulse

before the best can hide it

     the last slant 

     receding viper shores

lost in the perpendicular

when geometry angles past the beat

Dreaming Up

deformation leisure

wallows deplorable faucet smack

cohabit rectangle pompom grit

storming undersea nutrient clamor

no vagary left unfolded

festive octets bustled

rummaging an amber slag dance

freeloads unbuttoning portend

instinctive motoring rotonda mileage 

founding a spritz federation

old fishtail shopper

reappraises probate diameter 

simplicity neglect soothes 

index quake vicinity prancing

stimulate cupcake lunch

between shirttails

experiments button executive flight

The Game after Recess

                  1.

agate battleground

the practical postcode marveled

     in central

     the retrospective closed

          a ruin          flaring

          plated         bandit

          under downgrade

a gopher phalanx in retribution

                  2.

     no facts

     in reparation 

operettas regulating the moviegoer

     vaunt taxes

     and paladin affections

locomotion a waiting daylight

                3.

apprehensive crucibles 

projective doorman boudoirs

the coronation a plectrum bubble unfilled

     petitions pockmark hostilities

     stray cartilage the war dress

     feted assassin a sitcom star

          exorcising breakfast

                      for asylum euphoria

                4.

         venom scent 

slats an illegal fingernail lecture

   masterstrokes pilloried

                    skeletal affections

eating more partitions

voltage benefactors rain 

assassin parameters

          to impound 

          the tailored marshes

forwarding the herbal dividends

                5.

frolics resumed

after scuttled pain thrust back

      the cliches

      passioned 

            in door’s coiled attributions

need no mudslide dimensions or departures

                        to end the ruins

BIO

Vernon Frazer’s latest book is Memo from Alamut.

Name: Nahyean Bin Khalid
Class: 7

THE MANSION HIDDEN IN  THE FOREST - CHAPTER 02     


I floated through the broken mirror into a realm of shadows and echoes. The ghostly figures whispered tales of their own misfortunes, and I realized they were trapped souls crying for release. Together, we roamed the mansion's different rooms and corridors, seeking clues to set us free.

In the moonlit attic, an old diary revealed the mansion's tragic history. A cursed family, betrayal, and a desire for redemption tied the spirits together. Determined to break the curse, I explored the mansion's secrets, solving puzzles, and calming restless souls.

As I uncovered the truth, the mansion transformed. The broken windows mended, the walls revitalized, and the whispers turned into songs of gratitude. The spirits, freed at last, faded away, leaving me standing in a restored mansion.

Yet, the mirror remained shattered. I realized my destiny was intertwined with this place. The ghosts, my new friends, offered a bittersweet farewell as I became the guardian of the enchanted mansion, forever balancing between the worlds of the living and the spectral.   

2. KUĆA I TI

Zakači kaput tuge u ormar,
iznošene grešne potpetice stavi u cipelar 
sa ostalom pocepanom obućom,
čaršav i sve na krevetu što je upijalo
sve tvoje neprospavane noći 
iznesi na sunčev zrak zaborava.
Potom svoju suzu urami u drveni okvir 
i postavi iznad kamina 
da je toplotni zrak pusti na slobodu, 
onda kada dođe vreme.
Uđi u dečiju sobu i seti se sebe tako male i bezbrižne. 
Uzmi platno bele boje i obmotaj se 
u više slojeva odvojenosti, 
raspusti dugu kosu da miluje tvoje telo.
Stavi ploču The Beatles-a u stari gramofon i pevaj uz daire,
izađi iz kuće čiji nisi vlasnik,
sama si je stvorila misleći da ti pripada, ali ne.
Ti nemaš dom u svetu prolaznosti.
Spoznaj Njega i prizivaj odricanje 
i pleši da prizoveš nebesku ljubav.
Cigle se otapaju u crveni prah od plesa,
a ti u ruševinama spoznaješ svoj mir
i shvataš tek tada da je tvoja kuća bila 
gvozdeni kavez koja ima izlaz.



2. THE HOUSE AND YOU
 
 Hang the coat of sorrow in the closet,
 put the worn sinful heels in the shoebox
 with other torn footwear,
 sheet and anything on the bed that was absorbed
 all your sleepless nights
 bring out into the sunshine of oblivion
 Then frame your tear in a wooden frame
 and place above the fireplace to
 let the heat ray set her free
 then when the time comes.
 Enter the children's room and remember yourself so small and carefree.

 Take a white cloth and wrap it around yourself
 in multiple layers of separation,
 let your long hair down to caress your body.
 Put a Beatles record in an old record player and sing along the     tambourine,
get out of the house you don't own,
 you created it yourself, thinking it belonged to you, but it didn't.
 You have no home in the world of transience.
 Know Him and invoke renunciation
 and dance to invoke heavenly love.
 Bricks dissolve into red dust from dancing,
 and you find your peace in the ruins
 and you realize only then that your house was
 an iron cage that has an exit.

FRIENDSHIP IN WAR

THIS IS A STORY OF A WARRIOR MEANS ABOUT A FREEDOM FIGHTER, WHO WAS IN THE MOHIUDDIN JAHANGIR’S TEAM.

The day was 12th December 1971. Yes this is a story that was happened in the liberation war. A warrior named Abdul Motin was eating his food after two days because the supplies were off for two days. Suddenly their captain Mohiuddin Jahangir came and told them:

Mohiuddin: Hey my brave warriors, there is a good news that our country is almost independent but we have to kill Pakistani enemies to free Chapainawabganj.

Mokshed: Yes captain we will!

Kinu: But captain, we don’t have enough resources to fight.
Mohiuddin: Yes, I already sent a message and I think the recourses will come soon.

Motin: Inshallah captain, Joy Bangla.
Mohiuddin: Joy Bangla

After that day the freedom fighter team of Gazi Rahim Uddin came and said,
Rahim Uddin: Hey, Mohiuddin, your team can’t fight against the Pakistani army. Please give the opportunity to us to free Chapainawabganj.

Mohiuddin: NO! Rahim, I know my team is not as powerful as your team but we have enough mind power and confidence to beat them.
Rahim Uddin: Ok, but you have only the next day to prove your team. If you can’t, my team will smash them.

Mohiuddin: Oh! my warrior brother.
On that 13th December night there was a meeting with Mohi Uddin’s team that how they could attack next day.

Mohi Uddin was briefing the plan:
Mohiuddin: I and Mokshed will remain in the front and we will always fight to make them surrender.  Then Kinu will throw bomb if there were any barracks or barricades. Got it?

Mokshed: Yes, captain.
Kinu: Yes, captain.
Mohiuddin: Now Motin, Karim and Hakim will cover us firing.

Then Mohiuddin made 10 teams with these patterns and they started to go with the street of Mahanada river because the Pakistani base camp was situated at the other side of the river.

Now that was the war time, Captain Mohiuddin Jahangir was walking and saw the base camp but suddenly there was an artillery attack and captain shouted "attack down’’. Many of them jump to bunker. 

The enemy was informed that they will attack and they were ready. But Mohiuddin was a very brave man. He took a machine gun and firing to the enemy, he does not have the fear of death and his partner Kinu was throwing bombs and destroy the bunkers with
Mohiuddin. 

But then the Pakistani military started firing rapidly with their modern
weapons. Suddenly a bullet hit to the head of Mohiuddin Jahangir and he fell down. The captain was down and the team was like a boat without a controller. Suddenly an artillery blasts beside Motin. 

He jumped in the bunker but when he stood and looked that he was
surrounded by four Pakistani army and he couldn’t fight with them because he had a rifle which could only fire one bullet in one round. When he was on the corner of the death, his best friend Mokshed saw it and he had a machine gun and he fired rapidly to save his best friend’s life and his accuracy saved Motin. The war finished after 30 minutes. Mohiuddin sacrificed his life to free Chapainawabganj. 

The next day the team of Gazi Rahim Uddin came to fight and won the battle. And finally, on the 16th of December, 1971, Bangladesh officially got their independence.

We lost a hero just two days before the independence.

N.B: The story was inspired by a real story about Motin and Kinu is my grandfather.

Fahim is a student of grade 7 in Harimohan Government High School, Chapainawabganj, Bangladesh.

THE WAR OF WORLD

It was 31th century. The world was much better then. Then many types of advanced machines were invented in the world. Such as Time Machine, Spaceship, Adaptation Light etc. There were also many advanced inventions. People did not use any petrol or diesel vehicles then. Then special types of scientific vehicles were invented. 

As a result of one of these machines, the whole world was in the hands of man. Humans could travel to any planet using advanced spaceships. Humans wanted to make the climate of Mars similar to that of Earth. Humans then use Adaptation Light to work on climate change on Mars without hindrance. Gradually the climate became suitable for human habitation. 

Then scientists started observing the neighboring planet Venus. Then they noticed changes in the weather on Venus. But they didn't think much about it. After many days, the scientists saw that the climate had changed a lot. Then the scientists decided to go to Venus. They went there in a spaceship and found that there was a kind of life living there. The scientists became invisible with the help of the invisible machine and wandered there. Scientists see that aliens have built many big cities there. They also made many weapons. 

Scientists noticed that the weapons are much more advanced than the earth's weapons. This means that the aliens are much more intelligent than the people of the earth. Then the scientists came to know from there that the stay of the aliens on Venus will be short-lived because soon Venus will be destroyed. So the aliens were looking for other planets. And they found Earth and aliens also knew that Earth was inhabited by life. So they are making the weapons to destroy the human race on earth. 

Then after knowing these scientists quickly returned to earth. Scientists get together to think how to stop the aliens. Scientists try to communicate with aliens via satellite. But the scientists did not succeed in this. But they build another satellite and scientists use strange words to describe the aliens. Finally they succeeded in communicating with the aliens. Then the scientists tell the aliens that there was human habitation on earth, they should find another planet. But the aliens didn't listen. They prepared to invade Earth. 

Then the Earth scientists decided to use the time machine to save the Earth. Scientists used a time machine to travel to the past and take some miniature bombs with them. The scientists planted the bomb in all the spaceships of the aliens and returned to the present. When the aliens left for Earth, the scientists warned the aliens. But they didn't pay attention to the words of scientists. The scientists then detonated the bombs on the spaceships loaded with alien weapons. Then the aliens got scared and the aliens surrendered. Scientists say we need a planet to live on. 

So we wanted to take over the world. Where will we live? Already the climate of Mars has become habitable. Scientists believed that good relations with aliens will benefit mankind. So the scientists asked the aliens to live on Mars and the aliens accepted. Many years later, aliens have built cities on Mars and are living peacefully. And now aliens have a good relationship with humans. Scientists are discovering more new things with alien. And the world has become a very beautiful and advanced planet. And the human race has become full of modernity.




Md.Rafiul Islam is a student of grade 7 in Harimohan Government High School, Chapainawabganj, Bangladesh.

Love

Love is a feeling, gentle and true, 
It's what connects me and you. 
Like a bond that's strong and bright, 
Love's a guiding star in the darkest night. 
It's in the smiles and laughter we share, 
A feeling that shows how much we care. 
In times of joy or when we're sad,
Love's the best friend we've ever had.

Wazed Abdullah is a student of grade 8 in Harimohan Government High School, Chapainawabganj, Bangladesh.

The Love Castle

Life is so beautiful, you are mine
You laugh out, the morning sun smiles on
You touch me and I survive in the morning breeze
The waves of the ocean run through in the veins
I become forgetful
The building stands on before us
The world can see the beauty of The Taj Mahal at Agra
The love castle - the eternal love story.
 
Chapainawabganj,  Bangladesh
28 October, 2023


In the Autumn Morning

How sweet the morning breeze!
In this autumn morning
No firefighting, no dismal display
Over the natural sight
The birds chirping near me
The sweet scent of the roses
The grass flowers on the bushes
All smile on at my bare foot walk by the way
By the river side and lake
I walk on and the autumn beauty welcomes me 
The soft blowing of the catkins waving on the heart
The colorful butterflies and 
The open sky round circle birds over head
Celebrating the bright morning
In my turning home feeling nostalgic to be with the childhood age
How wonderful the lambs and ducks on the ground and lake!

Chapainawabganj,  Bangladesh
31 October, 2023


Md. Mahbubul Alam is from Bangladesh. His writer name is Mahbub John in Bangladesh. He is a Senior Teacher (English) of Harimohan Government High School, Chapainawabganj, Bangladesh. Chapainawabganj is a district town of Bangladesh. He is an MA in English Literature from Rajshahi College under National University. He has published three books of poems in Bangla. He writes mainly poems but other branches of writings such as prose, article, essay etc. also have been published in national and local newspapers, magazines, little magazines. He has achieved three times Best Teacher Certificate and Crest in National Education Week in the District Wise Competition in  Chapainawabganj District. He has gained many literary awards from home abroad.   His English writings have been being published in an International Online Magazine - Synchronized Chaos from America for seven years. He is a father of two daughters. He is living with his family at Chapainawabganj, Bangladesh