Shabdaguchha

The International Poetry Journal in Bengali and English


Issue 39
Jan-Mar '08

Tokon Thaakoor

Pop Poetry

Songs in my grip
I can spread them all over
The vast sky on the top;
But it belongs to the government.

Paddy in my grip
I can spread them all over.
Writing letters on fallen leaves,
I travel through the forest.

Life in my grip I can spread it all over.
Whatever I got in a long tussle
I can lose it in a moment . . .

Spell in my grip
I can spread it all over.
When jumping to grab the cloud,
Not the cloud, I see sari . . .

The vast sky on the top;
But it belongs to the government.

I am the dust,
I can spread myself all over.
I am the dust,
I can spread myself all over.



Tokon Thaakoor (1969 - ) worked for the Daily Muktokantha at the beginning of the 90s and edited its literary supplement with Abu Hasan Shahriar. There after, he has been mostly working as a freelance journalist and appeared at a couple of TV serials. Mr. Thaakoor is the author of 5 collections of poetry.

Translated from the Bengali by Hassanal Abdullah


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