Wake me up every morning as dawn becomes a new day.
What motivated our youth to defy death in order to free Bangladesh from the yoke of a brutal regime?
Glamorous lightweight raindrops from the October sky keep
A star fell on the ground in the windy night
As if playing a game of chess / Still the world waits for the next dawn
Don’t you see— I can only write dark.
The first pulse, in the midst of a whipping maelstrom,
Eternity collapses at the wheel of change. / Past is lost
August, marked with dying things. Summer’s end, / My freedom spent
The top selections in poetry, flash fiction and artwork for Day 20 of the Sehri Tales challenge; prompt: Read
The top selections in poetry, flash fiction and artwork for Day 19 of the Sehri Tales challenge; prompt: Face
The top selections in poetry, flash fiction and artwork for Day 18 of the Sehri Tales challenge; prompt: Diary
The top selections in poetry, flash fiction and artwork for Day 15 of the Sehri Tales challenge; prompt: Last Words
The top selections in poetry, flash fiction and artwork for Day 14 of the Sehri Tales challenge; prompt: Street
The top selections in poetry, flash fiction and artwork for Day 11 of the Sehri Tales challenge; prompt: Switch
The top selections in poetry, flash fiction and artwork for Day 11 of the Sehri Tales challenge; prompt: Change
The top selections in poetry, flash fiction and artwork for Day 10 of the Sehri Tales challenge; prompt: Puzzle
The top selections in poetry, flash fiction and artwork for Day 9 of the Sehri Tales challenge; prompt: Little
Remembering Dutch Post-Impressionist painter Vincent Willem van Gogh on his 170th birth anniversary–March 30, 1853.