Charade - a Poem

Charade - a Poem

By Mahbubul Karim (Sohel)

November 19, 2012

Don’t tell lies in verse

Or ruminate the joys

Of birds, flapping wings

Expanded over dawn

And sheer non sense

Can you count the stars

In a night of phosphorous sky?

Can you look at photos

Of agonies and cries

Over mangled bodies

Of babies wrapped

In eradicated flags?

You may choose to avert

Eyes and ears

Precious time of yours

Twaddle into the realm of

Fictitious equivalence

While the loopy siren

Screams the tune

Of a distorted farce

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