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।

***
***

By dipankardasgupta | Posted in Bengali Compositions, Rhymes and Poems | Comments (0)

Ogdangst

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.

By dipankardasgupta | Posted in Compositions Inspired by Ogden Nash, English Compositions | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Happy New Year — Haiku

March 21, 2019 – 4:52 pm



Doggedly I live,

Even as the year does not ---

Happy New Year …

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

By dipankardasgupta | Posted in English Compositions, Haiku poems | Comments (0)

Greegden

March 19, 2019 – 12:43 pm

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

By dipankardasgupta | Posted in Compositions Inspired by Ogden Nash, English Compositions | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Ogdanguish

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.

By dipankardasgupta | Posted in Compositions Inspired by Ogden Nash, English Compositions | Tagged , | Comments (0)

সাহসপুর

March 14, 2019 – 2:45 pm

Screen Shot 2019-03-14 at 12.06.39 AM


রাস্তা সহজ, বর্ধমানের
অল্প দূরে,
এই মাত্তর এলেম ঘুরে
সাহসপুরে।
নিত্য তবু হন্যে হয়ে
জীবনপুরে,
সাহসপুরের রাস্তা খুঁজে
মরছি ঘুরে।

By dipankardasgupta | Posted in Bengali Compositions, Rhymes and Poems | Comments (0)

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? 
_____
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."

__________________

***
***

By dipankardasgupta | Posted in Bengali Compositions, Compositions Inspired by Ogden Nash | Comments (0)

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। 
______
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."

______
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.

***
***

By dipankardasgupta | Posted in Bengali Compositions, Compositions Inspired by Ogden Nash | Comments (0)

Somewhere — Haiku

March 7, 2019 – 4:36 pm

a lonely bee hums--

listens a lonely lotus--

in a lonely pond ...

***
***

By dipankardasgupta | Posted in English Compositions, Haiku poems | Comments (0)

Eternity — Haiku

March 7, 2019 – 3:48 pm

loneliness and I -- 

in a bondage eternal --

faithfully survive …

***
***

By dipankardasgupta | Posted in English Compositions, Haiku poems | Comments (0)