Sea of Kabul (F. Wajidi)

Birds flying blind under the beds heavenly

Cross wires that twist of desire

And fill up all the lights

Sun flood the magnet on the concrete

Float like foam breaking waves and voiceless

Here, so far from the ocean

Its tide is sewn to itself as the music

That is not recited, and so can not be corrupted

By time. Spend just outside them

As a raging demon

And leave everything intact while snatches

The ocher walls as human sand

The bones of the palace of Shah cannibals

Broken pump tanks and combat aircraft

How flew to hunt down the stolen soul

And now subject but forever out of his

He walks and sings the girl's hand

Someone lost a sealed spectrum

That left corner saved due

In boxes in basements of pure memory

To leave his youth in the desire of other

Weapon pointing and tense curiosity

Throw it to fly, in your blindness

Find out why your eyes dry basins sail

If you stop on alert

The mechanical vapor jellyfish of summer

And that heart his hands go

To study love

It's so hot that is not passed and

That birds fly like fish

And as temptation has no age lasts forever

For these invisible rivers dry Kabul

Nadan eternal dance that ponded on the way to the bazaar

And it whispers like raindrops to the thirsty mountains

Oasis in the margins written sideways you read

In the underground cliff where you bathed at night

Think that the desert begins, but the hallucination of the sea

Navigate the eyes, and hands are directed

To your place of mollusk and tomorrow and always

And the tide is low momentum and celestial

If I could raise the sea, after all

The bird that flew long as the fish

All that remains silent wind

Because the quiet air of nothing

It goes against my heart broken and nothing else

Is the name given to the infinite

And against my time forging your own insecurity

other coordinates of sea star

While injuries sheets under the sky

Jellyfish and sea of silence

All so far from the other oceans

And my temptation to ask if you let talk

And suddenly you will become ready to die old

Eat your air time and your love halo

So far, the final analysis, everything else.

Bangladesh faces climate change with doubts about its survival

New Delhi, April 29, 2007. - More than 15 million people at risk of becoming "climate refugees" in Bangladesh where, according to the UN Environment Program, a rise of 1.5 meters in sea level would away 16 percent of its territory.
"We have no development or infrastructure. Just emit harmful gases into the atmosphere. So, while rich countries pollute and the earth warms, we are the victims, "said Efe from Dhaka a spokesman for the Center for Advanced Study in Bangladesh (BCAS), Jandakar Mainudin.
At home, set around extensive Sundarbans delta, formed by the rivers Ganges, Brahmaputra and Meghna, about 60 of its 140 million people-overwhelmingly poor, live less than 10 meters above sea level, making them particularly vulnerable to any change of the medium.
"There are many people affected. Our land is very flat and coastal people will have to flee northward. Still, we have the advantage that it is a process that happens slowly, "he told Efe AQM Mahbub professor of ecology at the University of Dhaka.
According to a report released this month, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change UN forecasts for the year 2100 an increase in sea levels that threaten coastal areas and plains of the country, dominated by the Sundarbans delta ("beautiful jungle" in Bengali).
Of the major rivers, Bangladesh gets the fertile source of its agriculture, dependent on monsoon rains, while the action of the ocean has allowed the extraction of salt and the development of fisheries.
And now, with the increase in global mean temperature and the melting of Himalayan glaciers and the polar areas, the coastline of the country, where the biggest beach in the world (Cox's Bazar, about 120 kilometers long), suffers and the pressure of the water.
"It's like time has gone mad: Too many or too few showers. The sea enters the delta and the rivers carry less and less water. Some offshore islands have already disappeared, "he said by telephone Mainudin.
Quantified in three millimeters per year by the World Bank, rising sea level is related to global warming, but also with decreasing flow of major rivers, drowned by the construction of dams and erosion.
The Ganges, Brahmaputra and Meghna drag tons of sediment that modify the ground and act as a powerful agent against environmental degradation of the riverbanks, where they have built shacks million people in defiance of the obvious risk involved reside at the level of water.
Each year, about 95 million farmers in Bangladesh expect with a mixture of fear and anxiety to drought and floods that come with the monsoon, so important for their livelihood and fertility of crops as dangerous to their lives.
"Our culture blessing because monsoon rains are very important for crops. But due to climate change, severe floods are becoming more frequent. Just check the dates of the last "maintains Mahbub.
Between the catastrophic flood of 1954 and the following similar effect spent 20 years as the teacher. Then, the interval was reduced to 14 years (1988), then to 10 (1998) and then to 6, in 2004, when was the last great flood, which caused 600 deaths and 4 million displaced.
The realization of climate change must take, according to the BCAS, to rich countries reduce their emissions of greenhouse gases, but also the development of pilot projects help, because Mainudin says, "apart from the great words to do something here and now. "
And as climate change looms as a threat to the future of the Bengalis, millions of poor peasants waiting in the Sundarbans delta arrival, like clockwork, the next monsoon.