Steamed rice published in I am not a silent poet (December 5, 2015). Thanks Reuben Woolley.
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I dedicate this poem to Irom Chanu Sharmila, “the world’s longest hunger striker”.
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Tag: I am not a silent poet
There is not always blood
There is not always blood
(This poem is deeply inspired by an artwork with the same title by Sonja Benskin Mesher (artist and poet from Wales, UK) published a few days ago in I am not a silent poet. 
The piece is also indebted to a poem of Jacques Prevert called L‘orgue de barbarie/Barrel organ for its use of barrel organ.)
There is not always blood
They played barrel organ in Paris
Blood on the shirt from that night
You all stand good-side-up
A voice against
The night that plays knife
Barrel organ in Paris
Can’t enslave our minds
There will be always blood
I don’t want to talk to you about Garissa
Nobody in town knows what it is
Even Garissa makes mistake her name for a crushed bird
Let go
I don’t want to talk to you about Beirut
If deaths are stacking up on that horizon
Let go
The land never turns just enough flat
Or else you could see the bodies do bleed in the streets of Beirut
Let go
There is not always blood
If the bruised streets of Paris
Keep calling to your mind
Just tell the wind
The blood has never dried up
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Paris at night
Paris at night published in I am not a silent poet (November 20, 2015).
Quite a few beautiful poems on Friday the 13th have recently appeared and still appearing in this magazine for reactive/response/witness poems & artworks published from Europe (U.K. & Spain). IANASP will be one year old by the end of this month. Just under a year the zine has got 3119 members and 47,721 hits! Let’s keep the good work! And thanks Reuben Woolley!
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Freedom, still not earned
A rattling bog published in I am not a silent poet (November 11, 2015). Grateful to the editor of the journal, Reuben Woolley.
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Note : Thanks to Walmart, in North America, we all know now Bangladesh. Amongst the countries that have witnessed on a grand scale the terrifying experience of death and misery, Bangladesh stands alone, and still appears to be “eternally” enmeshed in the same patterns of misfortune. Hardly any other country in the world, like her though, had to go through such a bloodshed and human tragedy (according to the Bangladeshi authorities, three million people were killed in nine months) to earn not just the political freedom, but also the freedom of language of expression. The bloggers and their publisher who have been recently attacked and hacked to death in Bangladesh belong to that uninterrupted narrative of the country’s freedom struggle. But life in such a country is often considered to be cheap. Easy to forget such deaths, here too. “Je suis Charlie” has long gone to sleep in the storehouse of our memory.
I dedicate this poem to the following slain and attacked free thinkers :
Asif Mohiuddin, blogger, killed on January 15, 2013
Ahmed Rajib Haider, blogger, killed on February 15, 2013
Sunnyur Rahaman, blogger, attacked on March 7, 2013
Shafiul Islam, chair of the sociology department in Rajshahi University, killed on November 15, 2014
Avijit Roy, blogger and founder of the blog Mukto-Mona, killed on February 26, 2015
Oyasiqur Rhaman, blogger, killed on March 30, 2015
Ananta Bijoy Das, blogger, killed on May 12, 2015
Niladri Chattopadhyay Niloy, aka Niloy Neel, blogger, killed on August 7, 2015
Faisal Arefin Dipan, publisher of Avijit Roy, killed on October 31, 2015
Ahmed Rashid Tutul, Rono Dipam Basu and Tareq Rahim, bloggers, attacked on October 31, 2015
And let’s not forget also the attacks on Taslima Nasrin, Shamsur Rahman in the nineties and on Humayun Azad in 2004.
Current status : Hope
A Hope Baby published in I am not a silent poet (October 29, 2015). A big thanks to the editor, Reuben Woolley.
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News link :
Syrian baby ‘Hope’ born with shrapnel in her head survives
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A penny for your thoughts
I’m a death baby published in Thirteen Myna Birds, a journal that publishes “the evocative, the connotative, the denotative, the oblique…” (October 29, 2015). Thanks to the editor of the journal, Juliet Cook.
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This poem is now traveling from North America to Europe having found its second home in I am not a silent poet (October 30, 2015). Honored and grateful. Thanks Reuben Woolley for the warm welcome of the piece.
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What you are reading here is not a poem
Meeting the map published in I am not a silent poet, a magazine for poetry and artwork protesting against abuse in any of its forms (October 15, 2015)
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Suggested readings:
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Israeli Military Detention : No way to treat a Child
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