Jibanananda Das's poem -4
"An October Morning"
(Kartiker Bhorbela)
An October morning
Jibanananda Das
[Translation by: A.H. Jaffor Ullah)
In one October morning,
some dewdrops fell on my face and hair.
The dewdrops are here through
sarika* bird’s courtesy.Three drenched sarika birds
almost touching an emblica^ tree
enjoying the sun’s warmth.
Is it an indigo-laden blue field?
Or is it an azure sky?
Is it the sun? Or something sun-like?The bird slithers away
from our world into its own.
In my life, I have seen many sarika birds,
but never have I seen anything
like those three.
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*sarika bird is indigenous to India and is called shalik in Bangla.
^emblica is known as Amloki in Bangla
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