Poetry / Bilet pherta
17 May 2026, 17:55 PM
Poetry
Poetry / City of postcards
16 May 2026, 00:00 AM
Poetry
Poetry / A taxonomy of opinions
16 May 2026, 00:00 AM
Poetry
Poetry / Rabindranath
9 May 2026, 00:00 AM
Poetry
Poetry / Tired of crying in CNGs
25 April 2026, 00:00 AM
Books & Literature
Poetry / The aviary within
18 April 2026, 00:00 AM
Poetry
Poetry / Noboborsho
15 April 2026, 16:44 PM
Poetry
POETRY / Notice for the poems that won’t be written
28 March 2026, 03:37 AM
Poetry
POETRY / Ophelia's flower
23 March 2026, 19:55 PM
Poetry
POETRY / Blue
14 March 2026, 01:45 AM
Poetry
Ashen bloom
The air tasted of burnt sugar and broken vows–sweetness clinging to the char. It began with a whisper, then the slow, inevitable searing of what we believed was solid ground.
25 July 2025, 19:07 PM
Wings of ash
and for every grave / a firefly burns / and for every grave / Dhaka never learns
22 July 2025, 09:10 AM
Scorching silence
Scorching in a way the April sun never was. / Scorching in a way a fever never feels. / It wasn't just grief
18 July 2025, 19:40 PM
Even in hell, chanachur
And I realised: / even in the line to hell, / waiting for punishment, / we'd still reach for chanachur. / We'd still find comfort / in the crunch of survival
4 July 2025, 18:52 PM
Things I have had to forfeit and things I am unable to find
Patience, like moss, that grows on red soil. Conversations with friends, like inadequate breakfast.
4 July 2025, 18:52 PM
The poetry of rain
It would rain in the rains / And the rest of this poem would be written by someone else
27 June 2025, 18:43 PM
Writing a memoir
There’s a purgatorial break between these stretches
…flaxen against the lights
20 June 2025, 19:10 PM
The people within me
I am not a single name.
Not a single wound.
13 June 2025, 19:45 PM
Fragments
Grey chips of rough cement
Rust rubble all around,
13 June 2025, 19:45 PM
Mosaicked wounds
This was the way it ended: not with fire,
But carried quietly under sleep-beds,
13 June 2025, 19:45 PM
I loved you because I did
So go in peace, be free, be kind.
8 June 2025, 09:00 AM
What do you want to be when you grow up?
I cannot tell you that I want to be intoxicated, inebriated, and stashed away for the rest of eternity while holding your hand at the mediocre fair in the middle of the crowd of ill-mannered school-children who grew up too soon
30 May 2025, 18:11 PM
The companion
It said, 'You've brought a return ticket with you friend / Remember, people are not meant to be held onto.'
23 May 2025, 18:14 PM
Three Songs: Kazi Nazrul Islam
The mind craves to fly far away. / In the guise of a beggar, eyes wet with tears
23 May 2025, 18:14 PM
The moon is a cheeseball and we are effervescent
The moon is a cheeseball,
Cratered, yellow, and huge like your eyeballs
16 May 2025, 19:18 PM
déjà vu
Moving mindlessly and / Etching every alley along the way / With verses devoted to you
16 May 2025, 18:19 PM
Do you hear me, Ma?
For all that melts in this month of fallen petals rising, you’re a paperclip, hanging on the edge of my bookshelf, bent into a heart.
9 May 2025, 18:47 PM
Not yet worthy
31 years old moss-covered headstone
2 May 2025, 18:10 PM
Defeat
standing at the bus stop with my shoes full of water
25 April 2025, 18:00 PM
Mother, why is our sky so different?
Mother, why is our sky so different?
25 April 2025, 18:00 PM