Poetry
Serendipity
Wake me up every morning as dawn becomes a new day.
WB Yeats’s ‘Easter, 1916’ and Bangladesh’s July 1-36, 2024
What motivated our youth to defy death in order to free Bangladesh from the yoke of a brutal regime?
POETRY / October: An unfinished poem
Glamorous lightweight raindrops from the October sky keep
POETRY / Silence
A star fell on the ground in the windy night
POETRY / Republic of the dead
As if playing a game of chess / Still the world waits for the next dawn
POETRY / Sinking in ink
Don’t you see— I can only write dark.
POETRY / Devi
The first pulse, in the midst of a whipping maelstrom,
POETRY / The wheel of change
Eternity collapses at the wheel of change. / Past is lost
POETRY / Fall
August, marked with dying things. Summer’s end, / My freedom spent
Jabar bela fele jeo ekti khopar phul
Leave a flower from your bun when you depart, my love.
All hail July
The July wind brought in the scent of new beginnings
Magic boys and girls of Bangladesh
Magic boys and girls of Bangladesh, I love you.
Look out the windows
In the blanks of muddy moonlight
Anger and other blessings
A walkway through the crystal-clear lies
Selected poems of Shamim Reza: An overview
Review of 'Shamim Reza: Selected Poems' (ULAB Press, 2023)
The color of courage
Surely, it’s madness / it’s insanity—that he walked on
The children of the red storm
You've ignited a tempest, / a crimson anger, / A defiance burning brighter than the summer's sun
There was complete silence around the time of your birth
the way there was complete silence when you lied for the first time. You opened your eyes
Dawn of new(?) air
But talks of harmony flood your nose. / Harmony, harmony, harmony—you want it so bad, / and so you put words in our mouths