Shakhawat Tipu
Bangladesh
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Haiku
1
Before sleeping
wake up to the dream
unfamiliar flowers
2
Flying sparrow
frequent instability
love more
3
Alabama flowers
in the ears of the queen
hanging in pain
4
Open your mind
a sad tiara bird
is singing alone
5
After the wind
the words keep on awake
in eternity
6
From the symbol
looking at the face
there is a point
7
To escape
gray lightning shines
in the sky
8
If the rose spines
understand the beauty of flowers
how much pain her
9
Spring goes on
ieave the green pain
in warm love
10
Kisses are
turn on the reins
wave spreads
Poet’s Profile
Shakhawat Tipu, born in 1971, lives in Dhaka. He is a distinguished bilingual poet, editor and critical thinker from Bangladesh. He is also a journalist. The prominent figure of the new Bengali poetic language movement, Tipu established himself as the leading poet in his generation, his poems translated in Spanish, Italian, Serbian and English. He published five Bengali poetry books: Elah Hi Borosha (2002), Jhah Be Ei Bakyo Porokaale Hobe (2004), Shri Chorone Shu (2007), Buddhijibi Dekho Sobe (2009) and Karl Marxer Dhormo (2012) and Noverar Rup (2019), an art critics book on modern Bengali sculptor Novera Ahmed. As an editor, he edited Jatiya Shahittya (2008), a magazine of linguistics and philosophy and Charalnama (2011), a collection of street people’s interviews with a subaltern dictionary. He is the former acting editor literary magazine in Notundhara and former editorial consultant an art magazine Depart. He is the former General Secretary in Bangladesh Progressive Writer’s association. His wife, Gazi Tanzia, is also a renowned Bangladeshi storyteller and novelist.