Look! Otto Hahn’s iron-peacocks
Float
On Heraclitus’s river;
In the morning restaurants, see
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The machine is asleep. But somewhere
The nature-machine keeps awake!
Serene, noiseless and calm.
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1.
The waves of the abstract night
come relentless in foamy form.
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হেরাক্লিতাসের নদীতে, দ্যাখো, ভেসে চলেছে
অটো হানের লৌহ-ময়ূরেরা;
সকালের রেস্তোরাঁয়, দ্যাখো, টনকে টন গমদানা
ফুলে উঠছে সূর্য-তন্দুরের আঁচে
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This smile is mine. Yet it forsakes me
to illuminate the cheeks of others.
As if I am some wanton fish, who
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Running is a necessity. Yet the horse
is a more important gambit.
And this land of the motionless is like a stable
deserted and full of voids.
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Don't go. Stay with me
At least as the fate of the third world.
Yet the train will be on it's course
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১.
চোখ দুটো দেখাও আমাকে। আমি
রাত্রির বাতাস, ঘ্রাণ
তবেই না বয়ে নিয়ে আসি
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You pelted stones from afar;
Now the stones,
on own rules,
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You are stuffing gunpowder into
the silent cannon
All by yourself. When winter is
over
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