Pre-script: This is a tri-meter couplet rhymed verse written on the ever-existing kind characteristics and never-ending functionality of a mother who has always literally been the same everywhere else… This poem was first meant for the global readers and very few of my true foreigners literary friends and now it’s time to share it with my lovely Toulot poet-friends to be justified. I’d truly appreciate your views after going through… Cheers…
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~The Mother~
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‘First ray of light I saw with my eyes
Face seemed to me the world in size,
Called her Maa when, I don’t know!
Was ready to me, the world to show…
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‘I don’t remember the tears of pain
Tearful eyes while a child to gain,
Joy rolled down from head to toe!
Was ready to me, the world to show…
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‘Kept me safe from even a scratch
None must find forever a match,
I call her Maa, I will always call so!
Was ready to me, the world to show…
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‘Mistakes I have done so many more
You haven’t led me but the right door,
Helped me find the right place to go
Was ready to me, the world to show…
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‘In my darkest hours to live
You have always hands to give,
You have always Yes, never No…!
Are ready to me, the world to show…
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‘I am heavenly blessed getting you
As my soul guide always new,
You have much to teach me though…!
Are ready to me, the world to show…
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‘Hard is the time and long is the way
I am blessed having you still today,
I admit so clearly to you, I owe…!
Are ready to me, the world to show…
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© a p shishir

(Slightly changed & concised version of the long poem ‘The Mother’ composed in the personal diary of Mohammad Anwar Parvez Shishir dedicated to his Mother Nila Nurunnahar on her first tour out of Bangladesh. Strictly, all rights of the published & shared poetries of Mohammad Anwar Parvez Shishir are reserved by himself)
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N.B.: [ I would love to share one of my English poems with you titled Autoventure since Toulot doesn’t encourage to post any poems rather than in Bangla that’s why I haven’t posted any further… ]
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