Monthly Archives: March 2019

শুনিতে কি পাও?

March 31, 2019 – 3:56 pm


যতই থাকুক অস্ত্রশস্ত্র
অচূর্ণনীয় হোক না ঢাল
ফাঁকি দিয়ে ঠিক পড়বেই ঢুকে
আজ শেষ হলে আগামীকাল।

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Rear Fear

March 28, 2019 – 7:44 pm


Being kicked in their rears
Few enjoy I fears
Unless of course you’re a football
But then you can’t boast of a rear at all.

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Happy New Year — Haiku

March 21, 2019 – 4:52 pm



Doggedly I live,

Even as the year does not ---

Happy New Year …

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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So Help Me God

March 19, 2019 – 12:43 pm


Chinese’s never sounded Greek to me
Nor Greek, I aver, quite Chinezeey. 



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In Search of a Definition

				
March 17, 2019 – 3:23 pm

				

					


Afternoon

Is the strangest word I’ve knoon.

Past mid-day it should mean

Yet rarely be-four’s afterneen.




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সাহসপুর

				
March 14, 2019 – 2:45 pm

				

					
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রাস্তা সহজ, বর্ধমানের

অল্প দূরে,

এই মাত্তর এলেম ঘুরে

সাহসপুরে।

নিত্য তবু হন্যে হয়ে

জীবনপুরে,

সাহসপুরের রাস্তা খুঁজে

মরছি ঘুরে।



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সংশয়মোচন — ২

				
March 8, 2019 – 5:35 pm

				

					

হামাগাড়ি চড়ে বুড়ো রেতে ফিরে বাড়ি,
বলে - বুড়ি দেখো তো গো খেয়েছি কি তাড়ি? 
বুড়ি বলে -- হ্যাঁ গো তাই 
সন্দেহ কিছু নাই 
বুড়ো বলে -- সাধে কি গো চড়ি হামাগাড়ি? 
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This, I think, approximates Ogden Nash better.

Ogden Nash's Carlotta

There was an old man in a trunk
Who inquired of his wife, "Am I drunk?"
She replied with regret,
"I'm afraid so, my pet,"
And he answered, "It's just as I thunk."



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সংশয়মোচন — ১

				
March 7, 2019 – 5:41 pm

				

					

হামাগুড়ি দিয়ে বুড়ো রেতে ফিরে বাড়ি,
বলে - বুড়ি দেখো তো গো খেয়েছি কি তাড়ি?
বুড়ি বলে -- এ ব্যাপারে
সন্দ থাকতে পারে?
বুড়ো কয় -- আমিও বলি, গন্ধটা তারই। 
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This could have been inspired by Ogden Nash's Carlotta.

There was an old man in a trunk
Who inquired of his wife, "Am I drunk?"
She replied with regret,
"I'm afraid so, my pet,"
And he answered, "It's just as I thunk."



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Note! When I congratulated my good friend Richard Thaler for winning the Economics Nobel, he replied, “Who would have thunk!” I wonder if he too was influenced by Nash.


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Somewhere — Haiku

				
March 7, 2019 – 4:36 pm

				

					

a lonely bee hums--

listens a lonely lotus--

in a lonely pond ...



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Eternity — Haiku

				
March 7, 2019 – 3:48 pm

				

					

loneliness and I -- 

in a bondage eternal --

faithfully survive … 



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