Poetry from Mahbub Alam

Middle aged South Asian man with reading glasses, short dark hair, and an orange and green and white collared shirt. He's standing in front of a lake with bushes and grass in the background.
Mahbub Alam

The Glorious Youth

The youth is like a raging river

It overflows the boundaries the old like to hold tight

It plays on the beauty of the lovely flowers in the garden

The flowers smile over, smile over

The glowing softness in the morning

The youth is like the rising sun

It blooms with new charms and attractions

We like to live under this shade

Youth invokes to win the world

Youth calls to pray to God

Youth is ready to receive the challenges

Youth is like to get free from all the hazards arround us

A struggle for turning into a serene beautiful world

Struggle for something better

Like going through the crystal water

Under which the colorful rocks

The blue sky with the meteors over there

Floating on the hilly wonderful green areas

And what not?

Though the time is too short

Like the drops of the morning dews

Glittering in the sunrise and vanishes too quick at a glance

We all are twinkling stars

We all are sparking in the dark night

The power of the sun

The enchanting calls of the morning birds

We are so lovely

We have our hands to love, to raise up

We have our hearts to feel, to step forward

Youth is like the green carpet of the large paddy field

Youth is like the healing touch to the wounded

A touch of a dear loving friend, not foe

Every second, the waves are echoing the victory the world welcomes.

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 literature such as prose, article, essay etc. also have been published in national and local newspapers, magazines, little magazines. He has achieved three times the 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 and abroad. His English writings have been published in Synchronized Chaos for seven years.

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