Saturday, 31 October 2015

আজো প্রেম

বৃষ্টি আজো চিঠি লিখে 
তৃষার্ত এই মাটিকে 
মেঘ আজো প্রেম করে 
আকাশের ওই ঘাটিতে 

ফুলের বুকে আজ ভ্রমর 
গুনগুন সুরে গায় 
ঘাসের মাঝে ঝরা পাতা 
আজো লুটোপুটি যায় 

ঘুমের যখন ক্লান্তি আসে 
আমার চোখে নামে 
তোমার কথা মনে হলে 
লজ্জা অষ্ট চুমে 

পথের বাঁকে দাড়িয়ে ওরা 
আজো প্রেম করে 
আজো আমি  হাড়িয়ে যাই 
তোমার স্মৃতির ভীড়ে 

আজো ঠিক তেমনি আছে 
আমার রাতের আকাশ'
শুধু একটু যেন ধূসর লাগে 
নিশীথের ওই চাঁদ 

তুমি আছো , আমি আছি 
আছে আজো প্রেম 
শুধু নেই সেই দিনগুলো 
যা পেছনে ফেলে এলেম 

আবার যদি দেখা হয় 
নিভৃতে কোনো দিন 
চোখ বুজে আবার দেখব 
স্বপ্ন রঙ্গিন, স্বপ্ন অন্তহীন 

~ মঞ্জরী ~








Wednesday, 28 October 2015

Forsaken Love

That excruciating pain
Deep within the soul
Buried beneath the
Rubble of blur memories
Almost strangulating
The leftover of me
I cannot bear, 
Bear anymore
The burden of 
Ever-expanding distance
Where two parched souls
Live together in separation.
Each evening ushers
A tornado in my heart
Each night slides 
An avalanche ..
Yet the eternal wait
Which blooms within
Like the fragrant
Jasmines ... buds open
Then I sit to compose
Another poem
Touched by your hands
Words stolen from your soul..
Oh ! What would I pen
What would I have written
If you had not given..
Some love, forsaken !

~Manjuri~

Saturday, 12 September 2015

জীবন গান

ঠিক যেন ভরাও নয় 
আবার ঠিক নয় শুন্য ,
পূর্ণ রিক্তের মাঝামাঝি 
হৃদয় আমার অনন্য । 

কোথাও কিছু খুঁজে পাওয়া 
কিছু কোথাও  হারিয়ে ফেলা ,
পাওয়া খোয়ার মাঝামাঝি 
নিশব্ধে, একা পথ চলা । 

একাও নয় যেন একদম 
সাথেও যেন নেই কেউ ,
নিঃসঙ্গতার পিঠে চড়ে 
খেলছে জীবন ঢেউ । 

ভালো সে বাসেনা এমন নয় 
ভালবাসে, তাও যেন বুঝিনে, 
বোঝাবুঝির আড়ালে দাড়িয়ে 
এলোমেলো সন্ধ্যে আর আমি গুছাইনে । 

চলছে জীবন নিজের দায়ে 
হাসছে মরণ পাছে ,
বলছে যেন যতই পালা 
শেষে আসবি বৈকি আমার কাছে । 

~ মঞ্জরী ~

Friday, 4 September 2015

Closely Apart

Have you seen the night sky lately?
Did you notice it with all your keen ?
Did you wonder for a while and smiled..
In those stars I too might have been...

Did you float on those dissolved clouds
And gasp at the beauty of the moon
Did you command the galaxy to wait for us
As you shall return with me soon...

Have you raised your glass of wine
And cheered those constellations ?
Once did you fly a kiss in the air
Sending me my love's remuneration ?

Softly did you raise your lofty feet
And walk up to the attic glass
Thinking that I might be still awake
Even when the midnight is well-past..

Did you pour another drink..
After a glance at your ticking clock..
Did you for once lift that device ..
In order to type or to have a talk ?

Far away beneath the dark sky
Somewhere when angels sleep
I tiptoed to have a glance
Thinking you might me in slumber deep..

Alas ! Did I find all my questions alive..
Throbbing in your awaken heart..
Hardly did I know, when I asked..
We are still now, so very closely apart !

~Manjuri~

Friday, 28 August 2015

My Soul's Casket


Like the rock
That keeps the fossil
I kept you.

Like the shell
That hides the pearl
I hid you.

Like the sand
That soaks the rain
I soaked you.

Like the flower
That hearts the pollen
I heart you.

Like the sky
That retains the galaxy
I retained you.

Like the spring
That stores the bloom
I stored you.

Like the cloud
That holds the rain
I held you.

Like the first dew
That love the petal
I loved you.

Deep within 
Soul's casket
I hoarded you.

My treasure
My hidden love
I preserved you.

~Manjuri~






Tuesday, 4 August 2015

Rain Picture


Symphony of falling rain
On the break of a new dawn
A prelude to the monsoon love
Hugs my soul, when you are gone


The sea is drenched today
Wet is the life's shore
No sun peeps from the east
And, heart longs you no more


Waves that rise and fall
And greet its visitors with a smile
Touches the ebb, goes back
As if to rest for a while


Anchored boat enjoys rain
All its fatigue washed away
As it waits the storm to pass
And I sit alone, on my bay !

~Manjuri~

Friday, 24 July 2015

Linger On

When your absence fills the air
And my senses soak in silence
I sit alone , to feel you all over
Oh sweet is my tender reminisce

That I have loved you always
With all the little I possessed
My passion , my longings
And with all that I am obsessed

I loved you in my senses full
Loved you more when am out of it
My love mingles in your veins
And flows to your heart petite

In silence one, and in words many
I loved you at your best and worst
I did love you in my solitude
And in a crowd I kept you, never lost

I loved you as if you are one
I did not seek other or any
Like the sky that love the moon
Among the stars that are many

Tarnished lies my fragile soul
And time, smiles from far
I have lost and found myself
Inside you, and its you who in me linger

~Manjuri~