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Sukanta Bhattacharya (সুকান্ত ভট্টাচার্য) (August 15, 1926 – May 13, 1947) was one of the most honored poets of Bangla literature. He was called 'Young Nazrul' and 'Kishore Bidrohi Kobi'.

HE MAHAJIBON
A poem by SUKANTA BHATTACHARYA
Translated into English by Barnali Saha.

O GREAT LIFE !

O great life, no more poetry should you knit

Bring on rigid, rigid prose

Let rhyme, rhythm and rhetoric obliterate

Pound the hard hammer of prose

No one needs the soft bower of poetic pleonasm

Poetry, I now bid you adieu

The hungry world is decked with prosaic fiction

The full moon is but scalded flat bread !!

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 Barnali is a creative writer, painter and elocutionist from Nashville, TN.

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