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Friday, December 20, 2024

New Poems: Sushant Thapa




1. Self-created World 

 

Days and dates, 

Faces and memories 

All are reflected 

Like a passing train, 

In moments

Of thoughtfulness. 

Shadows and sunlight, 

Time and absence 

All have imprints 

Of thoughtfulness. 

A circle is complete 

In its own, 

But we assign it the 

Value of zero. 

There is a 

Game of perception, 

Making new levels 

About human understanding. 

Winning or losing 

Is like dedicating hours 

Of passion, 

To find a space 

In the self-created new world. 

Self-created world 

Contains the entirety 

In its essence. 

 




2. Depth of Subjectivity 

 

Coming from the depth 

I seek. 

I was on the surface

Before my time disfigured. 

Changes bleed. 

Freedom is my luxury; 

I need to proclaim freely. 

A subjective flower 

Is my worship 

Of a disfigured time. 

I have grown faith 

Overtime, 

Like a deep well. 

Human relation 

Is where my empathetic spear 

Teaches me to hunt, 

For the survival. 

The first worldly lesson 

Has always been survival, 

Now we are stepping onto 

New planets of discovery. 

 




3. Free My Cage 

 

I am touched 

By the wind, 

The gentle kiss by it, 

The slow 

Whispering sermons 

By it, on how lighthearted 

I need to play the game 

Of life. 

Every soul that blesses

Me is a flower 

Of wild ecstasy. 

The wind is my preacher. 

I rise with waking alphabets 

To sew my poetic patches. 

Every savoring glances 

Free my cage. 

 

 




4. 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. 

 




5. Service is Dharma 

 

I take a walk, 

Every nomenclature 

Seems right.

Quite a depth 

Speaks in observation. 

Life has different names. 

I am the vessel 

Filled with water 

Kept on the sidewalk 

Of the road 

Left for animals, 

On the vessel it has been carved 

"Service is Dharma." 

 




6. Selling and buying time 

 

The office hour 

Isn't a foe, 

But time is freedom too. 

Let the office not buy your time

But try to be productive 

Throughout the timeline. 

Time is sold and bought 

Freedom is caged, 

If the wealth buys your time 

It cages your freedom.

Work with ease, 

And space. 

Feel the breeze pass by. 

Let the wine of passion

Be your guiding force at work. 

I am not against time 

And office hours 

But let the work enlighten 

Your heart. 

 




7. Prophesy 

 

The morning has come 

Like my arrival 

To a garden. 

The red carpet of assurance 

Tries to find 

What the cause for frozen  

Traveling feet is. 

Out there 

The sun sinks swiftly 

Like a diving bird 

Reaching a nest beyond 

The welkin's trauma. 

I sit and watch 

Like a silent spectator, 

Why mother earth wails, 

With her humanity 

By her side? 

A scar is something 

Which is deep. 

Every day the morning comes

I feel like some soothing,

Some consoling prophesy

Will rain someday. 

 




© Sushant Thapa 

Biratnagar-13, Nepal  

Monday, October 21, 2024

Introducing the Poetry of Jasna Gugić



EMBRACE MY SILENCE


Embrace my silence

With your arms of happiness

And wrap my heart

In threads of silk

And don’t let the southern wind

Erase a smile

Of the gifted hope

From the fallen.

Embrace my silence

And you shall hear

A heartbeat

And clatter of longing

In the silence of my infinity.

Embrace my silence

And call me by my name

In this night of suspense

And I shall come

Like a fairy

All in white

To open your eyes,

Which shine

Like burning stars.

Your eyes

Are like white lighthouses

In the fear of my depths.

Your eyes are like eternal diamonds

In the colours

Of glorious life.




SPRING


Spring is more beautiful

in the backyard of my childhood

under a cherry blossom in bloom.

Fluid and divine white,

adorned with wishes,

colorful,

dreamed in imagination

this present and untouchable love

who constantly struggles with fear

cocoon

in the depths of the soul.




THE MOMENT


In my fingertips I feel

the touch of your soul

wrapped in my colorful scarf

fluttering through summer hot air.

And I'm smiling in the silence.

From far away the scent of see

you brought to me

foaming in my eyes

and the sound of the waves

crowned in blue.

And I wish to capture

just that moment

and your step

with your smile of longing

As you walk along

the sunny side of the street.




PEACE


I feel a peace

in the motion of 

and this night is blazing

and the light dissolves

in the colors if unexpected love.

It glows in the eyes

burned by the stars

I call silence by your name

and a smile of desire

I’m carrying to the morning blue.

I wash myself with dew

to kiss a new day

and rejoicing the sun.

and cover your eyes

with my palms

to surprise you

on some blue mornings

with a smile that

conquers and wins.




GOOD MORNING


The morning is spreading

over my city

asleep

it extends from my hands

blue indefinitely

and the great yellow sun

entered your bright eyes

Don't you feel it

in this morning of hope

the trembling of my hands

open to all your infinities.

Good morning, my love

I kiss your eyes

dew bathed

in this morning of blue longing

As I give you the embrace of life

Forever.


All Rights Reserved@Jasna Gugić


Jasna Gugić was born in Vinkovci, Croatia. She is the
Vice-President of the Sovereign Artists and Writers of the
World SAPS, P.L.O.T.S USA the Creative Magazine
Ambassador for Croatia, Ambassador in Elite Arab
Creative Union of The Royal House - Lebanon,
Ambassador of Peace and Peaceful Coexistence -
Morooco, Global Ambassador of Literacy and Culture for
the Asih Sasami Indonesia Global Writers and a member
of Angeena International, a non-profit organization for
peace, humanity, literature, poetry and culture. She is
also co-editor of the anthology, Compassion-Save the
World, one poem was written by 130 world poets.
Jasna has published three collections of poems. The first
two collections are bilingual: one is Croatian-English and
the other is Croatian-Polish. The third collection consists
of a single poem translated into sixty languages of the
world.

Jasna Gugić is one of the winners of the World Award for
Cultural Excellence César Vallejo, for the year 2020 in
the category of culture, awarded by Union
Hispanomundial de Escritores (UHE). She is one of the winners
of the World Award for
Excellence “Golden Eagle” for the year 2023 in the
category of literature, awarded by Union Hispanomundial
de Escritores (UHE), in a global alliance with Mil Mentes
por Mexico International (MMPMI) and Academia
Mundial de Literatura, Historia, Arte y Cultura (AMLHAC)
and Global Peace Alliance Award 2023 awarded by
Union Hispanomundial de Escritores (UHE), MIL
MENTES por Mexico Internacional, and Academia
Mundial de Literatura, Historia, Arte y Cultura (AMLHAC).
She is one of the winners of the World Award for
Excellence “Golden Eagle” for the year 2024 in the
category of literature, awarded by Union Hispanomundial
de Escritores (UHE).

She is of the winner of the World Prize “Literary
Diamond“ and the Title “ Doctor Honoris Causa” awarded
by Academia Mundial de Literatura Moderna
Costarricense. She is of the winner of the “Diploma Awarde“ and the
Title “Doctor Honoris Causa”, awarded by Union of
Writers of the Republic of Moldova.
She was nominated for The Best of the Net Awards
(2025).

Jasna is a multiple winner of many international awards
for poetry and literature and her work has been
translated into several world languages.



Friday, September 27, 2024

Introducing the Poetry of Corey D. Cook



Childless

 

She passes the tarpapered

chicken coop on her way back

from the fertility clinic.

 

Red heat lamp glowing

in the plastic-covered window

like the heart of a preemie

under translucent skin.

 

The one baby delivered,

but never brought home.

 

Earlier in the day she counted

two roosters, five hens.

 

Envious, as she is now,

of their prolific eggs,

the dozing chicks tucked

under ample breasts. 




Sunday Morning

 

The flag shudders

above the schoolyard

as daffodils stand

at attention  –

silent trumpets raised

 

He lies on his side

by the jungle gym

 

No longer hungry

for the handgun

in his mouth

 

His hollowed-out skull

slowly succumbing

to light




Biography


Corey D. Cook's seventh chapbook, Passing Cars, was published by Maverick Duck Press in 2023. His work has recently appeared in Cajun Mutt Press, Freshwater Literary Journal, Last Leaves Magazine, One Art, and Stone of Madness Press. Corey works at a hospital in New Hampshire and lives in Vermont.