🍀Tasneem Hossain🍀

Another Sunrise 

I lie in bed; my heart feebly beats. 

Nurses, doctors run around 

covered in masks and shields not a moment of peace. 

Behind the closed door my beloved sleeps. 

We lay there fifteen days or more, 

covered with oxygen masks gasping to breathe. 

Now I lie here, she on the other side, 

I knocked on death’s door to let me in, 

trade my place and let my beloved live. 

Deaths’ angel ignored my plea. 

She lies hanging on a cliff 

ready to fly to an unknown destiny. 

Raindrops drizzle down my cheeks, 

filled with remorse and grief. 

Cobwebs in my head like empty vessels, 

echo the drumbeats of marching bands. 

Sounds of tinnitus shrieking bells, 

screech through my ear with flames. 

The myriads of color grow hazier now: 

only pitch black and gleaming white. 

Far in the darkness, shining fireflies; 

starlit carpet from moon spreads to welcome the bride. 

Calm tranquility reigns in moonlight; 

tomorrow there will be another sunrise.

Written during COVID19- 2021

Intruder in My Head 

An intruder in my head 

came last night. 

It tormented and tortured, 

I could sleep no more. 

It lit the candle of love 

which burned brighter and bright. 

The sparks travelled through veins, 

my body kept awake. 

Gallons of water 

couldn’t calm the flames. 

Intruder in my head, 

please go away. 

O! But the thoughts and passions 

are here, forever to stay.

Brief Bio of Tasneem Hossain:

Tasneem Hossain, majoring in English Language and Literature is a multi-lingual poet from

Bangladesh. She is also a translator, columnist, fiction and op-ed writer, educator and trainer.

Her impactful writings appear frequently in esteemed publications worldwide like: Human Rights Art Movement, Southern Arizona Press, MockingOwl Roost, Setu, Pen magazine, Valiant

Scribe, Prodigy Magazine(USA), Borderless Journal(Singapore), Discover Mississauga and

More-eBook, Mindtalkers (Canada), Dark Thirty Poetry Publishing, Krishnochura (UK), Polis

Magazino, Homo Universal (Greece) Worvid and Homagi International Magazines (Indonesia),

INNSÆI Journal, Cultural Reverence, MicroPoetry Cosmos,The Fatehpur Resolution,

TAAHIRA E- ZINE, , Khwahish (India), Sindh Courier (Pakistan), Orfeu.al (Kosovo), EDAS Chronicle, The Dhaka Literature, An Ekushey Anthology, Dhaka Prokash 24.com, bdnews24.com, The Daily Star, The Business Standard, Asian Age Online, Daily Observer (Bangladesh).

She is an author of three poetry books: ‘Grass in Green,’ ’The Pearl Necklace,’ ‘Floating Feathers’ and a book of articles ‘Split and Splice’. Four more books are underway.

Poetry, to her, is music through words; an ever-flowing river reflecting all that surrounds us.

As an author, she tries to spread message of love, hope, mercy and create an awareness of social responsibilities.

A faculty of Chittagong Engineering University, currently, she is the director of Continuing

Education Centre (HRD). As a trainer she has imparted trainings to more than 27,000 mid-level

to top management staff of different UN agencies, MNCs, NGOs and govt. and private

organisations.

She runs an international poetry writing project and group named Life in Lyrics.

A sportswoman, she also worked as newscaster, commentary reader and radio presenter in radio Bangladesh for 10 years and directed dramas like Shakespeare’s ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream.