Poetry from Mahbub

Middle aged South Asian man with glasses and combed black hair and a white collared shirt

The Bubbling Words

I can’t say any word to please your heart

I know I always stagger on the sandy land

My river dries up

The boat touches its bottom

In this vague consequence

I only bubble

Feel like joyous at your jolly face

Glows with an excitement

It’s my mother’s lap walks me forward

I hobble and bubble

It’s my mother’s hand rising high

Charms the world I laugh and cry.

Chapainawabganj, Bangladesh
11/11/2019

The Hungry Falcon

The hungry falcon is just waiting

Waiting for the little body

The little dying baby dashing down on the ground

Only after some moment the bird will satisfy its belly

The torn dry leaves scattered around

None but the falcon stands by

O hunger, who are you?

The world is bursting out

Pathos drops into our soul

We enjoy our days

So many ways

The dying baby is going to close its eyes

Lying on the ground

The hungry falcon is just waiting.

Chapainawabganj, Bangladesh
11/11/2019

The Horseshoes

Who likes to spend the time all for the shoes?

To be nailed in the hoof of a horse

Beaten and trodden rubbing out the skin

Bleeding and throbbing

Struggling with the forswears

Nothing smiles over

Heart, always cries for what?

Rivers continue to dry up

Birds migrate to the others

Heaven burns with fires

Devils take over the charge

Satan rules the earth

After being pastured the day long

Just reaching the nest all my pigeons, hens and cocks die

Can we see the bleeding humanity?

The horseshoes can’t last too long.

Chapainawabganj, Bangladesh
14/11/2019

The Overwhelming Night

The night appears too long

It moves me more often than not

The soft wind was blowing

The clear moon was shinning

Feeling so glad

Twinkling the stars on my face

The silence of the night spoke to me hissing

Like an angel

Instantly it started to feel the heart scared and trembling

Nothing to see as eyes closed not to play hide and seek

Sleeping eyes feeling joy in fear

In the shinning moonlit long with my grandfather

In the abyss of silence I felt the overwhelming night to the bone.

Chapainawabganj, Bangladesh
14/11/2019

The Heart Speaks before

The eyes of the hyenas

Devour me every moment

My rolling stake

This muddy heart always swings in

You can see on the face

But I feel like touchy

When you move on telling

 ‘O soft hearted dear,

You are so loving

I can see the light spreading over.’ 

Chapainawabganj, Bangladesh
14/11/2019