Gazi Abdulla-hel Baqui – Poem and biography

Favorite Places

Gazi Abdulla-hel Baqui

Favorite places are where embryos bloomed

And brought up, and thoughts were strange,

Where they started the rains of imperfect nature,

Everyday bound them with its changing shackles.

Favorite places are societies and environments

Where calculations and Tenses loom large around all,

Favorite places are fields and clubs

Where life is more than a serious discussion.

Favorite places are our roads and paths,

Big and small steps grow wider and wider,

The known and the unknown ignite face to face

They are bound for journeys without ends.

Favorite places are drawing and dining rooms,

Hunger and thirst increase for tomorrow in busy idleness,

Favorite places are bed and bath rooms

The distance of which vanishes between plans and activities.

Favorite places are minds and hearts

Where depths of delight on surface of sorrows,

Favorite places are mother’s home and father’s house

Where bounties of care and affection galore.

In fact, no place is favorite on this babbling earth,

The whole life is spent moving from place to place,

The truth is life is cased in the womb and the tomb

That are the most favorite places nobody cares.

Short Bio:

Dr. Gazi Abdulla-hel Baqui, poet, writer, translator, and a university professor, has already authored twenty seven books, and a great number of his poems, (many haiku and rubaiyat), articles and stories have been published in different Newspapers, Magazines, Journals, Periodicals etc. Besides being awarded internationally for his poetic accomplishments, he has many a time been honored by different organizations of Bangladesh for his contribution to literature, education and research. A solo cassette album of his eleven poems called `Visions’ and his poems in some anthologies have been published by The National Library of Poetry, Maryland. Poems are published by Oddball Magazine, English Teaching Forum, Poetry.com etc. His prize-winning poems on `Peace’ has been published in Official Catalogues by Cultura-e-Societa, Torino, Italy. His poems generally deal with peace and patriotism, eternal problems and lasting human conviction.