Poet
Ahmed Kaisar is one of my favorite poem Writers.
His sincerity in children's literature has already
charmed me. Recently I got a book of poems by
Ahmed Kaisar. After reading the verses which
were printed in four colors, which I feel attracts
the readers to read them again and again. I
feel that the key ingredient for writing poems,
obviously for those who want to compose mesmerizing
poems, is that they should know what they are
writing about. What should they know? They should
know the history behind the poems, rhymes, verses,
songs, whatever it may be. Since the inception
of the Bangla language, I think, Ahmed Kaiser
has more or less a good grasp of the history
of the evolution of Bangla rhyme literate and
its gradual changes. Many writers take this
rhyme writing as an easy poetic performance
and claims to be triumphant. But to speak something
new, giving new ideas, using suggestiveness
and symmetry, requires good poetic skill. The
rhyme book titled `Phoolgulo Pathe Pathe' is
basically written about the street children.
The poet's sympathy for the deprived and neglected
children is evident in it. Without profound
affection, composition of such work is never
possible. In the first nursery rhyme of this
book the poet speaks about the activities of
a flower girls life from morning to evening
and her busy routine on the streets selling
flowers. Kaisar's effort to create imagery has
been beautifully portrayed in this poem. Kaisar
has wanted to say that the Pakhi's (Bird) life
is better than the Ankhi's. The nursery rhyme
touches the readers for the sympathetic approach
of the subject of the poem. The second poem
is written about the story of one or
two ill-fated children, like:
It was nineteenth of (Boyshakh) April,
The day was Saturday,
At Sadarghat there got down
with his mother Rony.
Thus the imagery of an ill-fated child making
his entry in the Metro City of Dhaka has been
created in this poem. In simple and lucid language
and by the use of rhymes the verse has reached
ultimate perfection. The naturalness in his
rhymed verses will easily captivate the child
readers as it has captivated me. The book includes
only four rhymed verses and it has attained
perfection in its form and style in telling
the fairytale on a realistic plain. To speak
about the poetic skill of Ahmed Kaisar, I would
like to say that Ahmed Kaisar has the natural
flair and skill of a poet in the real sense.
If he gains control over the oblique trend of
the modern poems through study, his future compositions
will be rich with suggestiveness and more touching.
Many writers in our country have written rhyme
verses for mere show off. Such writings do not
get longevity for failure of creating appropriate
rhymes. Intellectual flavor is also a precondition
for this. Without having a good grasp of modern
literature success is not possible. I do not
find any attempt by Kaisar to give the impression
of a mere show off or fluke. Neither has he
made any attempt to earn accolade by the use
of overflowing rhymes.