পাঠকের অনুরোধে.........
'জীবনানন্দ দাশের নিজস্ব অনুবাদ'


"BANALATA SEN"

Long I have been a wanderer of this world.
Many a night
My route lay across the sea of Ceylon somewhere winding to
The ocean of Malay
I was in the dim world of Vimvisar and Asok, and further off
In the mistiness of Vidarbha
At moment when life was too much a sea of sounds---
I had Banalata Sen of Natore and her wisdom

I remember her hair dark as nights at Vidisha,
Her face : image of Saravasti; the pilot
Undone in the blue milieu of the sea
Never twice sees the earth of gress be fore him.
I have also seen her Banalata Sen of Natore.

When day is done, no fall somewhere but of dews
Dips into the dusk; the smell of the sunis gone
Off the kestrel's wings. Light is yourwit now
Fanning fire files that pitch the wide things around.
I am ready with my stock of tales
For Banalata Sen of Natore.