Tuesday, March 27, 2012

The Safe House Comments

Rating: 4.8

I'm compelled to live in such a house
Where I'm forbidden to say 'I like it not'
Though I feel aghast to live in here.
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Taslima Nasrin
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Nabakishore Dash 12 April 2023

I pray for a safe exit from the very unsafe house.

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Freni Karaluthara 12 April 2023

The readers are left with a sense of helplessness, but it also serves as a call to action, challenging us to strive for a more peaceful world. Congratulations on your poem being selected as the Poem of the Day.

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Freni Karaluthara 12 April 2023

The poem discusses the trials and tribulations you have endured. It vividly portrays the anguish you have experienced.

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Sylvia Frances Chan 12 April 2023

THREE: CONGRATULATIONS being chosen as The Modern Poem Of The Day! A very painful poem about a woman who wanted freedom of speech, but could not. This looks like in ancient days, but it is already the year of 2000

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Sylvia Frances Chan 12 April 2023

TWO: This is a loud cry for freedom of women's rights. Very sad poem but very fascinating to read it.5 stars for this sad poem. I am very indignant and deeply impressed.

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Sylvia Frances Chan 12 April 2023

ONE: Before reading this poem, I know Dr. Taslima Nasrin's story, I know her whole history of running away to another safer place/country because her government blacklisted her for her 'disobediences'.

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Don Warner 12 February 2020

There are many safe houses like where my wife resides called assisted living houses

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Michael Walker 11 February 2020

It would be a most unpleasant experience to be confined in 'the safe house'. It must have been a struggle to survive. Thank goodness you did have a safe exit, never to return, hopefully.

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Banamala Sen 11 February 2020

It must have been too hard for her - almost in an exile. The poem expresses the mental torment she was going through! Congratulations for being chosen as POD.

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Chima Ononogbu 11 February 2020

Really touchy a poem.

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Edward Kofi Louis 11 February 2020

A place of peace and love! ! Muse of a safe house; When the right thing is done. Thanks for sharing this poem with us.

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Good poem exposing the odd experiences of a prisoner's life

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Dr Antony Theodore 11 February 2020

Friends, do pray for me For my safe exit, from the safe house, Pray for my lucky sojourn, Once in safety in an unsafe house. living in cinfinement in New Delhi....... great poem full of emotions.. tony

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Sylvia Frances Chan 11 February 2020

Friends, do pray for me For my safe exit, from the safe house, Pray for my lucky sojourn, Once in safety in an unsafe house. This poem was written while Taslima was forced to live in confinement in an undisclosed location in Delhi from 22 November 2007 to 19 March 2008. Nasrin moved to Sweden in 2008 and later worked as a research scholar at New York University. Since, as she claims, " her soul lived in India, " CONGRATS, TASLIMA! SFC Nederland

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Mahtab Bangalee 11 February 2020

Jail the safe home for criminal to change the guiltiness! Safe home my home where I'm free independent bird can fly hither to thither wherever I want wherever, can speak, can write, can eye contact, can live, can sleep............ But there I've seen the safe home where freedom in solid doom where independence in cruel chain where a woman was obliged to live for safety from toxic paws of independent criminals!

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Dr Antony Theodore 16 August 2019

Such a safe house I live in Where I'm destined to live and suffer But cannot weep... I have read so many of your poems. your life, your sufferings.. i understand. tony

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Freni Karaluthara 12 April 2023

Hallo Theodore, bist du immer noch aktiv auf Poemhunter? Schön!

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Fabrizio Frosini 14 December 2015

Friends, do pray for me For my safe exit, from the safe house, Pray for my lucky sojourn, Once in safety in an unsafe house. - IN ITALIAN: Amici, pregate per me Perché io esca incolume dalla casa protetta, Pregate per un mio soggiorno fortunato, Una volta ch'io sia al sicuro in una casa pericolante.

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Taslima Nasrin

Taslima Nasrin

Mymensingh / Bangladesh
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