Who is Sayeed Abubakar

Born on September 21,1972 in Jashore, Bangladesh, Sayeed Abubakar is a major Bengali poet, essayist and translator. He is famous for his two epics 'Mujibnama' (2018) and 'Nabinama' (2021) . 'Pronoyer Prathom Pap' (1996) is his most famous poetry-collection which is regarded as a master-piece in Bengali language. Sayeed Abubakar started composing poems at a very early age. He was only 11 then. Many of those poems were published in the local newspapers of Jashore and Khulna namely `The Daily Sphulingo', 'The Daily Ranar', 'The Daily Purbanchal', 'The Daily Janmabhumi' and so on. He used to compose 60 to 70 poems each day, for he was determined to defeat Rabindranath Tagore by the number of poems. Reason was that Rabindranath started composing poems at his 8 and he at his 11. It was a pecu...
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Sayeed Abubakar Poems

  • An Isolated Tree's Song
    Do you tell me to set my roots into air?
    Tell me, where had the procession of trees ever
    Raised the slogan of storm and seized the blue sky
    With their palms, being isolated from the soil? ...
  • A Strange Boy
    An innocent boy leaving the lap of mom
    Opened his fearful eyes in the war-trodden world
    And asked in a depressed voice, 'Where have I come? '
    I told him the name of earth. ...
  • O Soil
    Soil,
    Don't be fertile more,
    Don't be a mother;
    Child-traffickers, like mad dogs, ...
  • No War, No War-monger
    Sometimes it seems that the solution to all problems
    Lies only into the pipes of guns.
    Sometimes my heart cries, saying
    'Mao Tse Tung! Mao Tse Tung! ' ...
  • Night's Town
    The night's town is deluged with intoxication.
    The cute dream-women dance on the stage of the town-hall.
    Men are beyond control; their veins are replete with
    Mad emotions; their lips whistle ...
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Sayeed Abubakar Quotes

  • You can kill me but cannot defeat me.
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