Navel / Abu Karim

What a strong scented secretion have you kept hidden?

All round the buzzing of bees.

I am like a wayfaring ship;

your navel is to me the lighthouse of Kutubdia.

Please, keep your navel in this way.

My dearest girl, that is my key to

open the doors of heaven.

Your body is my string of beads;

I will stay with you

as a child does with its mother

having a close relation through the navel.

1972

"নাভি" কবিতার অনুবাদ  ।

[Translated by Dulal Al Monsur]