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Tasneem Hossain, Director, Continuing Education Centre (CEC)
Multi-lingual poet, columnist, op-ed and fiction writer, translator and training consultant
Bio: Tasneem Hossain is a multi-lingual poet from Bangladesh. She is also a fiction and op-ed writer, translator and trainer.
Publications: Poetry: The Pearl Necklace, Floating Feathers and Grass in Green (published in USA). Article: Split and Splice.
More than 75 of her literary writings have been published in different magazines and dailies in the USA, Canada, UK, Singapore, China, Greece, Indonesia and Bangladesh. She has written about 65+ op-eds in a span of 2.5 years. She runs a project named Life in lyrics, which is a literary network with no borders.
As a trainer, she has imparted training to more than 26,000 staff of different organisations. She completed her Masters in English Language and Literature from Dhaka University and has been a faculty in CUET, Bangladesh. She also worked in Radio Bangladesh for 10 years.
I will not Accept Defeat
My life starts with apprehensions in the mother’s womb,
Birth of a girl means it will be a doom.
Prayers not a daughter but a glorious boy,
Curse for the household will be this unlucky ploy.
A woman is nothing but a naughty decoy;
Opportunist was beautiful Helen of Troy.
Mischievous and dark natured when girls do bloom,
In secrets my destiny will be an earthy tomb.
To wear the crown,
They think men are with tricks won and drown.
Women, you frown, are at fault always;
My life is forever ablaze.
Stormy winds seldom seize,
My life is always a lease.
The wrath of a woman she keeps hidden for peace,
My fight for justice will never cease.
Start the countdown,
I am not going to breakdown;
No matter how big the fleet,
I will not accept defeat.
Proud to be the woman, you see.
Your home is heaven, it’s because of me.
Life’s Journey
Crystal pearly watery waves
In a never ending gentle caress,
Take my body in the dark abyss and bliss.
I drift like a straw in airy waves,
Speck of dust on the sands of life’s deserted path;
Drifting driftwood tumbling in sea waves,
Lazing on the windswept beaches where oceans reign.
Today or tomorrow we will die,
This world to another we will survive.
What lies is only the mortal remain,
Swiftly flies the soul to the sky’s haven.
Life’s journey never does cease.
Smile and live in eternal peace.
