Poetry / Waterhen
Afroja Shoma
11 HOUR(s) • ⁠⁠Poetry
Poetry / Four poems on healing
19 September 2026 • ⁠⁠Poetry
Poetry / Sacred sorrows
19 September 2026 • ⁠⁠Poetry
Poetry / Dinner time and death
29 August 2026 • ⁠⁠Poetry
Poetry / Reminiscence of life
Porom
15 August 2026 • ⁠⁠Poetry
Poetry / Ode to my girls
2 August 2026 • ⁠⁠Poetry
Poetry / You ask me
25 July 2026 • ⁠⁠Poetry

Memory speaks

Sometimes at early dawn / You overpower my eyelids / And won’t let me wake up
7 April 2025

Bluebird’s anthology

Who do I tell, sir? The walls do not listen, The roads do not answer back
4 April 2025

Making headlines

We'll put up feigned politicians / And their fake promises instead
4 April 2025

What does a tomb look like?

Let us talk about death. Let us talk about funerals.
28 March 2025

Pardanasheen

Tell me about this life you live behind the curtain…
14 March 2025

The Birangona, un-buried

What matters when there's a Motherland to defend? 
14 March 2025

There is a point to this, I think

Here are a few things I learned in the one month we haven’t spoken
28 February 2025

Broken bridges don’t burn

face to face, 20 taka in my pocket and this keyless map do you think love ever ends?
28 February 2025

Sighs, ember and lies.

Pebbles strewn pavement Keep drawing me back
28 February 2025

Moving forward

I hope you fight with your mother when you have a migraine, / I hope there's a holud ceremony playing item songs right beside your building
28 February 2025

This world is full of paper

at night I look past my window / moon like a bruise hoisted on the shoulder of onlookers / as they draw their curtains
28 February 2025

Titled 'Loss'

you don't recognise yourself, / everything is lost like a fish in Lethean space. / you have mistaken truth for love again
28 February 2025

Hilly river

Imagine it’s raining cats and dogs The hilly river has let the hair loose
21 February 2025

I’m but a butterfly

I’m but a butterfly, not a bird; Why do I want to soar high?
7 February 2025

The melted melody of a surreal life

Tell me, how far you want to descend  Into your own abyss? 
31 January 2025

Exit wounds

Tell me I am not a house without exits. Leave
31 January 2025

Tupperware cake

1 and 3/4 cups of sugar, 2 cups of i-love-you
24 January 2025

Will you remember me?

When moon fades into dawn and when I pass away with it / Will you think of all that I was?
24 January 2025

Diamanté

I jump from ship to ship, / fly dangling from the claws  of a huge bird in the sky / till my toes scrape mountain-tips. 
17 January 2025

Reserved winter kiss

Where there's no scent of mother, but only a sweet sense of comfort in the touch I remember the warmth of my mother's lap
17 January 2025