Two Poems by Tasneem Hossain

Waiting

 

You have left for the unknown,

Yet I wait alone, forlorn.

Wait for you to come back, 

Come back and say ‘I love you’

 

I hear your voice whispering in my ears,

I am always near you my dear.

Your voice comes through the rustling leaves,

Flowing through the gentle breeze;

Crashing through the lightning so loud,

Moving strongly with the thunderous clouds; 

 

In the cold wintry nights,

I see you floating lazily in the mist,

wet soft moist leaves in sight;

In the sultry summer nights,

I see you dancing among the sparkling starry lights;

Your presence in the beautiful spring I smell,

In the fragrance of the colorful flowers you dwell.

 

Your presence in nature is all around,

My love for you knows no bounds.

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Sweet Little Devil Child

 

He is my sweet little devil child.

Rages and angers on every little thing,

Shouts and scolds for small little things.

Fits of panic surround him sometime,

At the end, he is my sweet little devil child.

 

His heart pure gold,

Sometimes behaves very cold.

A man has his pride and ego,

Won’t stop, to let you talk and go,

At the end, he is my sweet little devil child.

 

Some things in his life went wrong,

Made him so bitter, yet very strong;

His eyes have the power, to not let you go,

His smile makes the room shine bright and glow.

At the end, he is my sweet little devil child.

 

Ask me why I love him so.

You would do the same, if you truly know

The façade behind that angry shadow

A man betrayed so many times.

At the end, he is my sweet little devil child.

 

I know and love the pure soft heart,

of this sweet little devil of mine.

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© Tasneem Hossain

Director, Continuing Education Centre (CEC) 

Bangladesh 

cec.tasneem@gmail.com

Tasneem Hossain is a multi-lingual poet from Bangladesh. She is also a fiction and op-ed writer,

Translator, educator and trainer. Her publications consist of three poetry books and an article book. 

Poetry: The Pearl Necklace, Floating Feathers and Grass in Green (published inUSA). 

Article: Split and Splice. Four more books are underway.

 

Apart from her four authored books, more than 70 of her literary writings have been published in different magazines and dailies in the USA, Canada, UK, Singapore, Indonesia, China, Greece, India and Bangladesh. As an op-ed writer, she has written about 80+ op-eds in a span of 2.5 years. She runs a project named Life in lyrics, which is a literary network with no borders.

 

As a trainer, she has imparted training to more than 26,000 staff of different UN agencies, MNCs, Govt. and private organisations, NGOs and private companies. She also worked as newscaster, commentary reader, interviewer and radio presenter in radio Bangladesh for 10 years. She completed her Masters in English Language and Literature from Dhaka University and has been a faculty in CUET, Bangladesh.