One Poem by Sushant Thapa

 

 

Much Needed Wakefulness 

 

 

The waking dandelions,  

The sky kissing affection  

Knocking on the gates of survival— 

Bowing too.   

 

Down here,  

Nature flowers in the basement,  

Unlike the Artificial Intelligence  

Making headlines.  

 

The Newspaper touch,  

The mythical kiss,  

The heart that is an orphan itself,  

Misses every immortality.  

 

The age must relax,  

It should climb down the ladder  

Of thoughtlessness,  

And walk in the garden of passionate flowers.  

 

I play hide and seek 

You play seek and destroy,  

The artist sleeps like an escorted blinded traveller—A  

Much needed wakefulness.

 

 

 

 

Sushant Thapa born in 1993, is an award-winning Nepalese poet from Biratnagar-13, Nepal who holds an M.A. in English literature from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) New Delhi, India.

He has published seven books of English poetry, They are: 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), Spontaneity: A New Name of Rhyme (Ambar Publication House, New Delhi, 2023), Chorus of Simplicity and Other New Poems (Ukiyoto Publishing, 2024) and Finding My Soul in Kathmandu (Ukiyoto Publishing, 2024). His flash fiction and short story collection entitled “The One Rupee Taker and Other Stories from Nepal” is also published by Ukiyoto Publishing. He works as a lecturer of English in Biratnagar, Nepal. Mr. Thapa has also translated a book of poems from Nepali to English and he has also written book reviews for The Rising Nepal and The Annapurna Express. He was featured recently in the book talk (interview) section of The Kathmandu Post.