The Ocean of Life (Excerpt)



To my starboard side are the volcanoes
 of calamitous temptations, submerged,
 ever ready to hurl at me with force
 a shell from the molten core of the world.
I can see no sign of land to my port,
 where I can dock myself and contemplate,
 why the ocean of life has been growing,
 more and more violent and savage of late.....

Reda the complee poem @ http://amitpoetry.wordpress.com/2013/12/26/the-ocean-of-life/
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Submitted on August 22, 2014

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Amit Rahman

I was born in 1980 in Bangladesh. Afterwards I spent a couple of years in Europe and USA as my father worked for UNICEF. Since 1985 till 1999 I lived in Dhaka, the capital city of Bangladesh. Then for my higher studies I went to Singapore. Did a diploma graduation on Computer Science and Engineering. Started my career in 2001 as a software developer. In 2005 however I decided to leave the field and study English literature. Got an honors graduation this time in 2009. I have been working as a broadcast journalist in NTV, Bangladesh from 2010. For more details you can visit my FaceBook page @ http://www.facebook.com/gwrahman more…

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