The poet, critic and artist Mohamed Okasha faces our creative life with more than one mask. We can describe these masks accurately when we read his poetic and prose texts, follow his critical analyses, or stand before his sculptural works.
How to Raise a Cloud, Book Cover
If we praise words by describing them as painted with
In spite of great advances into the material world, men have not learnt the essential arts of living
If we compare a growing plant and a growing child, we will understand what the difference between men and nature is.
A plant when grows up, gathers a lot in its stem, and from here, it forms the grain, which is not meant for its own
Family is the ruling unit of the society. In the family, man and woman are often seen fighting. They do not find compatibility and sometimes think of killing the other partner, or even getting rid of him or her
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A partner who does not agree is better than a neighbour who agrees with you. For, that amounts to
The love story of a lonely juice-seller woman of a small remote town
The woman combed her hair, sprayed violet-scented perfume on her neck, put on a yellow flowered dress and went to the railway station. When spring comes the hill turns green, and the tree next to the house blossoms. The clouds floating in the clear sky and the
With worn out eyes she sits in the balcony,
Trembling with pain she groans.
Staring towards the horizon far away,
She yearns for her long lost days.
Tasneem Hossain, a renowned multi-lingual poet from Bangladesh, shares her poetry
Tasneem Hossain, majoring in English Language and Literature is a multi-lingual poet from
