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Sunday, April 28, 2024

New Poems: Sushant Thapa



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. 

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