POEM

Mor Bhabonere Ki Haowa

- Rabindranath Tagore
Translated from the Bengali: FAKRUL ALAM

What wind is it lilting my thoughts so amazingly?
Its caress swings, swings my mind unaccountably.
In my heart's horizon moist dense new clouds swarm,
 Stirring a shower of emotions. 
I don't see her—don't see her at all
Only occasionally in my mind I recall
Almost indiscernible footsteps sounding
And ankle bells tinkling, oh so tunefully!
A secret dreamscape spreads
Across the wet wind-swept sky—
A new and ethereal azure shawl!
Shadowy unfurled tresses fly,
Filling me with such intense disquiet
On this far-off ketoki- perfumed wet night.