New poems: Sushant Thapa

Point of Departure 

 

Like open doors

Affectionate walls 

Are hung with love canvases. 

A sentiment becomes a poem, 

Without knowing love 

Grows like tulips 

On the wallpaper of ages. 

This heart is old, 

Yet, it is new 

To feelings. 

A glance or a sight

Serves better in delight. 

What it hides 

Is what lives inside. 

Expressing love 

Is a test of endurance, 

Is this true or false? 

A winner is loved, 

A game is just the point of departure 

To the inner realm of love. 

 

 

Sea of Love 

 

When the page is turned

When words have 

Rooted their presence 

And touched you 

Like the first breeze of spring 

I would have lived, 

I would have re-lived 

What I forgot to live. 

Let us walk, 

Let us dive, 

Let us reach 

Like the returning waves. 

Like the changing seasons 

Of time to forever. 

My holiday days were vast 

Like the seven seas. 

I kept waiting like a stone 

To roll, 

To tumble, 

To fall

Into the sea of love. 

 

 

You

 

Above and beside 

Without and within 

The heart beats 

With every closeness. 

The grasses are greener 

When every walk together 

Is a blessing. 

Life kept on tearing hopes, 

Every light went dim

And every closeness 

Seemed far. 

Wake up under billion stars

Blanketed with the night. 

A close look, 

Sermons from the book

All reveal you, 

All see you. 

 

 

 

Bio: Sushant Thapa is a Nepalese poet from Biratnagar-13, Nepal, with ten books of poems to his credit. The books are: The Poetic Burden and Other Poems (Authorspress, New Delhi, 2020), Abstraction and Other Poems (impspired, UK, 2021), Minutes of Merit (Haoajan Publishers, Kolkata, 2021), Love's Cradle (World Inkers Printing and Publishing, New York, New York, Dakar, Senegal, 2023), Spontaneity: A New Name of Rhyme (Ambar Publication House, New Delhi, 2023), Chorus of Simplicity and Other New Poems (Ukiyoto Publishing, Philippines, India, USA, 2024), Finding My Soul in Kathmandu (Ukiyoto Publishing, Philippines, India, USA, 2024),  My Grandfather Had Been a Cowboy (Ukiyoto Publishing, Phillipines, India, USA, 2025), The Walking Rebel (Transcendent Zero Press, Houston, Texas, USA, 2025) and When I Desire and Other Poems (Ukiyoto Publishing, 2026). Thapa holds an M.A. in English from Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, India. Curriculum Development Center has approved a poem by Sushant Thapa titled "Festivities" to be taught in Grade 6 in Nepal. It is included in the book Paragon English.