Two Poems by Sushant Thapa

 

Born to Write

 

I grew behind

The suburb heights,

The yellow flower

Paved the light

Of my steps.

I gifted words to blank pages,

They gave me reasons

To remain alive.

The woody grassland,

The cicadas that ring

In the evening twilight

Press signs of permanence

Where the heavy heart

Smiles often.

The pain of carrying

A heavy heart

Gushes down

With a thundering waterfall.

Words have emotions,

They reach out in help.

The face value of words

Has underlying

Literary meaning.

I chase not

The material stars

That glitter

Only for the sights.

I seek soul-consciousness

And a social cave

Of wisdom weaving

Through words.

 

 

Image of Freedom

 

Life is free.

No chains

Caging the mind,

No crowd-pleasing

Temptations.

A ginger painted sky

The migratory birds,

All free from

The cage of the sky.

A watermark

On your forehead

Not mistaken

For a sweat bead,

Of labour and burden.

You dance barefoot

In your garden,

I play the music

For you.

I am freedom

With a new attire.

Let me fill the blank heart

Like pages with verses.

A true jazz of time

Keeps away

The melancholic blues.

 

 

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).