Apr 30, 2013

Inferno descends in laps of thunder

Prochondo gorjone ashilo eki durdino (audio)

Inferno is at the door,
listen to the tempest roar.
Lightning is a snake
the sky bitten with ache.
Heaven's gone blind
with tears and a sigh.

Release your woe
your fear, lazy one.
Shine your power
with joy.

Open your eyes.
There's serenity here.
In the seat of big fear
there is deathless wave
and it can make us brave.



(another version by Rumela)

What calamity descends
With such a growl and roar
Such a parade of clouds
With a thundering drumroll

A night lashed by snakes of lightning
A sky blinded by teary downpour

Break free from your terror
Awaken from fear and laze
Arouse the courage within
With a buoyant burst of bliss

Unabashed, lay your eyes upon
The stretch of the silent still
Resplendent in the conquest of death

The conquistador of fear

Apr 24, 2013

Cosmic heart at work

যিনি সকল কাজের কাজী 
Jini shokol kajer kaji (audio)

The cosmic heart at work
who we aid at all travail
He humours every flash
He startles every turn
He sweetens with abundance
and lifts us in the fun.

With that monumental beat
we march along in glee
He blows upon his horn
we dance his rhapsody.

His game riots with life
His sport spurs with death
we cherish in his rules
it hems in joy and ache.

When he asks for presence
His voice, a booming cloud
we rush to meet his call
our faith clear and loud.

We trample tricky thorns
and sail the seven seas,
we cross mammoth mountains
to answer his entreats.

Apr 20, 2013

In my deep wilderness

হৃদয়নন্দনবনে নিভৃত এ নিকেতনে
Hridoynondono bone nibhrito e niketone (audio: Subinoy Roy)

In my deep wilderness
in my house of silence,
arrive, my beautiful
arrive, my joy.

Show me your tender face
take away my sadness
arrive in my tormented heart
aching with divorce.

Bring me 
worthy days and nights.
Make my hollow life
worthwhile.

Let your melodies
make my heart sing.
Day-and-night
shower my heart
with your ambrosial wine.

(another version by Rumela)

Into the secret abode in my heart's wilderness
Come O Lord, ever joyous, ever good
Show your loving visage, set aside all woe
Scorched in the sorrow of separation
My heart awaits your soothing presence
Usher into my life days and nights of well-being
Bring to fruition this futile life of mine, my dearest
Let my heart ever resonate with sweet melody
Let cascades of sweet nectar sprinkle my heart night and day

Apr 14, 2013

O Beauteous One, I have bedecked my home


ওহে সুন্দর, মম গৃহে আজি
ohe shundor, momo grihe

O Beauteous One,
I have bedecked my home
For this night of supreme joy
I have laid a lotus seat
In the golden temple of my heart

Come my dearest, my sweetheart
Shower upon my tearladen eyes
The lustrous smile of your compassion

From across groves and glades
Jasmines I have culled
To adorn your bosom, to lay at your feet

I will play my Veena
Clinging close to your feet
I will usher you in with a bow
O companion of my soul

A conch reverberates at Mother's gate


A conch reverberates at Mother's gate
Will you not free yourselves from useless bustles,
Come away, with salvers of offering
Carefully light the lamp of devotion 
Arrive, laden with fresh buds  
Will you not spread the word, She calls.

The drift today enjoys it's dewy crispness,
The bud relishes it's newborn smell.

Hold your head high, brighten up
Join the somber new wave of music
Dress yourselves with blooming wreathes
Transform this moment
With a whiff of newness 
Where beauty burgeons, benevolence sprouts.

Apr 12, 2013

I will keep you treasured

Tomay jotone rakhibo he (audio: Subinoy Roy)
I will keep you treasured
I will hold you close
I will enamor you
With fragrant buds of love


My love for you 
Will be my embellishment
My longing for you
Will keep me athirst

You will come to me,

How will you resist?
I will catch your smile
Suffuse the sky

Like sweetened luminosity