Coming home
Her red woollen frock
deftly hand-woven
by her mother
billowed out behind her
as she ran hurriedly
to hug her father
after two long years.
Her sparkling blue eyes
floated across the sky.
Their smiles merged
and
stretched
into the beckoning
hills beyond.
The paddy fields
were in bloom.
Summer squashes,
lush and sturdy.
The sun was ebullient,
they giggled
and hand in hand
marched towards their home.
Nearby, squirrels swerved
through the branches
of
the silent trees;
found their song
in the rustle of the leaves.
Bhuwan Thapaliya is a poet
writing in English from Kathmandu, Nepal. He works as an economist and is the
author of four poetry collections. His poems have been published in Pendemics
Literary Journal, Lothlorien Poetry Journal, Trouvaille Review, Life in Quarantine:
Witnessing Global Pandemic Initiative(Witnessing Global Pandemic is an
initiative sponsored by the Poetic Media Lab and the Center for Spatial and
Textual Analysis at Stanford University), International Human Rights Art Festival, Poetry
and Covid: A Project funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council,
University of Plymouth, and Nottingham Trent University, Pandemic Magazine, The Poet, Valient
Scribe, Strong Verse, Jerry Jazz Musician, VOICES( Education Project),
Longfellow Literary Project, Poets Against the War among many others.
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