The Poem of the Month (November, 2009): THE POPE IN DHAKA

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A copy of my poem written in Bengali on the visit of Pope John Paul II to Bangladesh on November 19, 1986. It was published in Doel, a collection of mini-poems, edited by Aldrick Biswas and published on December 25, 1986, from Dhaka.

I present below the English rendition of this poem.

The Pope in Dhaka

By Jerome D'Costa

You had come
You returned home, 
But you left behind
A bundle of love.