মুজিব রাহমান
Art and life
Original: Abdul Mannan Syed
Translation: Mujib Rahman
Moyukh Chowdhury told only me one day,
I celebrate art only – not life.
Winning as well as losing you has removed that mistake of mine .
I’have realised : life is hundred times more colourful than art.
Realised : how much more a woman is colourful than art.
Sultana, I have got you on a night of winter.
I have lost you on a rain-ringing day experiencing a great shock.
Winning you I realised, pleasure can go at its utmost depth.
Winning you I realised, what agony of life is.
Losing, again I realised, what agony of life is.
Life, so worthier than art! so vast!
Sheds warm blood. Delight touches the sky.
Is it so that gaining and separation are of equal worth?
Winter says : winning and separation, the two are of equal value.
The rains says : winning and separation, the two are of equal value.
2.
Nature and art
Original : Abdul Mannan Syed
Translation : Mujib Rahman
On that day of divorce, I saw : the sun had risen above.
The night was filled completely with the sweetness of the moon on that day too.
I thought inwardly : am I only melancholic then?
A nocturnal bird passed calling : ‘Who am I? Who am I?’
The moon rained her beams. Occurred to my mind: Amit, Labanya.
Separation wrote down sweetness filling in the notebook of poetry.
[ Noted poet, literary critic and cerebral essayist Abdul Mannan Syed was born on August 3, 1943 and died Sept 5, 2010.
His major literary writings include – Jonmandha Kobitaguchcho ; Eeshwar Gupta theke Shaheed Kadree ( A collection of Essays on Poets and Poetry) ; Shuddhatama Kobi; Chhanda ( Eaasys on Bengali Prosody); Machh Mangsha Mathsharzer Roopkatha ( a book of fifteen short stories) ; Adhunik Shampratik ( A collection of essays); Farrukh Ahmed : Jiban O Sahitya ; Kobitar Boi ( A Book of Poems; Aghraner Neel Din ( Blue Poems of Autumn). Mannan Syed enjoys recognition for his noteworthy research works on Jibananda Das and Kazi Nazrul Islam. His ‘Shuddatomo Kobi’ is not only an academic research but also a classic work of Bengali literature. His symbolic and surrealistic poetry enjoys great critical appreciation. Mannan Syed, the great literary researcher was the first scholar-in- residence in Bangladesh at North South University.]
মুজিব রাহমান:কবি ও প্রাবন্ধিক। সহযোগী অধ্যাপক,ইংরেজি বিভাগ,চট্টগ্রাম কলেজ।
