1. Perfections and Imperfections
Like the sky
The roof rains.
Like the graveyards
The playgrounds abandon
Themselves.
The walls are still
Like jails where
The caged bird sings.
Innocence is the name
Of simplicity,
But beware of half-life.
Let the swing
Narrate stories of childhood;
Only the waking eyes
See the spring.
Like the war clouds
Bullet holes rain again.
Perfection and imperfection
Close and open
Like glass windows.
Shattered melancholy
Create holes
In seeking the future.
Too doomed to burn
An incense of hope by humanity;
A flower springs-up
In the grave.
2. Carry on
When the days are numbered
Count not the time in life,
But the measure of life in time -
This is a common cliché,
Yet useful in all its essence.
The fear should be casted
As a mirror,
Life takes a courage bird
And teaches it
To kiss the aerial sky.
The height is a measure
Of success
The depth is the measure
Of intellect.
Burn down the prisons of mind,
Narrow walls hold secrets,
Kiss their hardness
And paint the slogans of healing
On their bare chest.
Let the task be
Hard, until you don't
Build dream-frames,
For giving shapes
To your dream.
3. In a Poetic Manner
I keep looking
At the touch of a raindrop
How a lily would glow.
l kept teaching a lesson
On how to be carefree
As a child,
Even in older days.
I keep cuddling
Like a sweet sleep.
Music is my spontaneity
In listening to the inner-city
Of my being.
My inner-city
Is full of mind-leaves.
The echo of laughter
Is my forest.
I am drunk in spontaneity
I never know how high
I can get intellectually,
In a poetic manner.
4. Feeling and Being
Taking an oath
To keep writing
I want my interests
To find a literature
That suits it.
I have a soul of nature,
My faith is in its divinity.
No chaos can
Steal my words.
I barely am a mind shifter.
When the determination
Falls prey to engulf
The entire world,
Materialistic thoughts
Make me ignorant.
I want to keep surfacing
The ocean of depth
And dive deep
Into my liberation
Of the mind.
The mind is a horizon
With immense space.
©Sushant Thapa
Biratnagar-13, Nepal
Bio of Sushant Thapa: Sushant Thapa (born on 26th February, 1993) is an award-winning Nepalese poet from Biratnagar-13, Nepal who holds a Master’s degree in English literature from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. He has published five books of English poetry, namely: The Poetic Burden and Other Poems (Authorspress, New Delhi, 2020), Abstraction and Other Poems (Impspired, UK, 2021), Minutes of Merit (Haoajan, Kolkata, 2021), Love’s Cradle (World Inkers Printing and Publishing, New York, USA and Senegal, Africa, 2023) and Spontaneity: A New Name of Rhyme (Ambar Publication House, New Delhi, 2023).
A poem titled "Festivities" by Sushant has been published in the book Paragon English, for Grade 6 students in Nepal. It is taught in schools. The book has been approved by Curriculum Development Centre, Nepal. Similarly, a story written by Sushant in English is being taught in a Grammar Book for Grade 7 students in Nepal.
Poems written by Sushant Thapa have been published in places like Sahitto Bilingual Magazine, Sahitya Post, The Gorkha Times, The Kathmandu Post (Print), The Poet Magazine, The Piker Press, Trouville Review, Lothlorien Poetry Journal, Impspired, Harbinger Asylum, New York Parrot, Pratik Magazine edited by Himalayan Poet Yuyutsu Sharma (Print), The Beatnik Cowboy, The Dope Fiend Daily, Atunis Poetry, EKL Review, The Kolkata Arts, Dissident Voice, Journal of Expressive Writing, Sindh Courier, Bharath Vision, As It Ought To Be Magazine, Spillwords, Mad Swirl, Ink Pantry, International Times, Roi Fainéant Press, Medusa's Kitchen, Outlook India, Prodigy Magazine, Bold Monkey Review, Argotist Online Poetry among many.
