Bengali Peace Poetry from Year of The Poet (Vol 58)
Featured in The Year of the Poet October, 2018 Volume 58.
Synonyms for Peace
“Sānti sainta shanti”
words of peace in Bengali or Bangla
in toned with bright colors in India and Bangladesh
Synonyms for peace
“abirōdha” or “abirodha”
is harmony
peace accord
agreement amity and friendliness
More synonyms working through
the alphabet to create
a word with a state of being
in a family and community
Abirōdha abirodh
aikya aman
chup chupí
firám khámosh kushalábasthā
mel miláp musálaha
nirasta rafāhiyat
sānti saanth saanthi sainta
salāhiyat sandhi shanti shānta
shdinti sthir sulh
susthiratá
Always carrying the feeling of peace
a nuance of appeasing or pacifying
in a word to calm
reconcile
or nudge into a state of peace
Feel Saanthi
Comfort
is it the same as peace
in Bengali “saanthi” is
peace and comfort
“saanthipoorn” calm
quiet and still
Is one comfortable and still in peace
or actively appreciating
grateful for what life offers in “saanthi”
Is one quiet when calm
or learning reading
actively figuring out
how to contribute to calm and peace
Is peace meant to make one
comfortable and quiet
or intended to be shared with the whole
global community
Imagine 80,000,000 saying
feeling breathing “saanth”
means many things
in Bengali from A to Y
again but calm
cold cool despite
fresh however
peace quiet recent slow still
though yet
May we again enjoy
the cool breeze of peace
recently slow and still
though yet calm
giving a fresh look
despite challenges
Om Shanti Peace
Multilingual “Om Shanti”
peace
“om shanti cánti śanti
shánti shaanti shanti”
peace in many languages
Sanskrit
the Rohingya people of Burma and Bengali
Caribbean Hindustani
Maithili and Nepali
peace all over Southeast Asia
“Shanti” from Ancient Sanskrit “úântiḥ”
peace rest calmness tranquility or bliss
“Om santi” in Koch spoken in Bangladesh
“santipap” in Thai Khmer and Laotian
in the Punjabi “śāntī”
“Sulha” “shanti” or “śanti”
or شانت in Sindhi
voiced in Pakistan and India
“Shánti” with nature
the green trees huffing out oxygen
ecological “shaanti”
Om “shanti” or “aman” in Marwari
“shānti” in Bhojpuri spoken in India
“shānta” in Bengali
“Aman” or “sukoon”in Urdu
“Samadhanam” in Malayalam
called out in Kerala, India and Singapore
Peace with society
cánti between human beings
selectively seeing
friends and neighbors everywhere
“Om salamti” in Hindi
“shāntatā” in Gujarati in words of India and Pakistan
“shaamti” in Kannada or Kurumba
The Assamese say “sānti” or “shanti”
sometimes droping the first letters
for “ȟ̇ānti” or “nti” or “xanti”
“Shanti” within a spiritual peace
a sense of pride in actions
riding the flowing of emotions
“Om śāntātā” or “śāntī” in Marathi
“shanti” in Telegu
and in the Oriya of India “sānti”
“Amaithi” or “amaïdi”
or “samaadaanam” in Tamil
while mothers and fathers in Kashmiri
say “amn” “shaanti”
or “sala” or “sokh”
Environmental “aman”
encompassing them all
food shelter connection
and hoped for peace
Originally published in The Year of The Poet (Vol 58) at http://www.innerchildpress.com/the-year-of-the-poet.php on October 1, 2018.
