Masudul Hoq

 

Masudul Hoq

 

Midnight

 

Midnight-

In submerged consciousness like prayer

I wake up in your body

 

You are a rose forest

 

Smells and thorns

Or even sex and fear

I enter there.

 

At midnight you're just a lady.

 

 

 

Sculpture

 

Wax is burning

Here, Air is the concept of smell,

Light-dark means

Seeing you completely.

 

I am a blind sculptor

I touch you with my fingers

Build a sculpture

At midnight.

 

 

 

Travel

 

From the writing table

The eyes awoke at midnight

 

A scattered moon,

Coming to the window takes breath,

Pet black cat

Gets vanished in the dark.

 

Getting drenched into supermoon

You became moon.

 

I travel to the land of the moon.

 

MASUDUL HOQ

 

MASUDUL HOQ(1968) has a PhD in Aesthetics under Professor Hayat Mamud at Jahangirnagar University, Dhaka, Bangladesh. He is a contemporary Bengali poet, short story writer ,translator and researcher. His previous published work includes short stories Tamakbari(1999), The poems Dhonimoy Palok(2000), Dhadhashil Chaya which translated version is Shadow of Illusion(2005) and Jonmandher Swapna which translated version is Blind Man’s Dream (2010),translated by Kelly J. Copeland. Masudul Hoq also translated T.S. Eliot’s poem, Four Quartets (2012), Allen Ginsburg’s poem, Howl(2018), from English to Bengali. In the late 1990’s for 3 years he worked under a research fellowship at The Bangla Academy. Bangla Academy has published his two research books. At present he is a Professor of Philosophy in a government college, Bangladesh.