Poem by Sushant Thapa (Prepared Angela Kosta)
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SUSHANT THAPA (NEPAL)
Sushant Thapa (born on 26th February, 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 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). His sixth book is ready, and about to go to the press. Sushant works as a lecturer of English in Biratnagar, Nepal. He is also an assistant editor of Himalaya Diary, an online portal published from the capital city Kathmandu of Nepal.
BLOOD AND GROUND
I want to write
Of the hunger.
I want to write
Of the blood dripping hunt,
That searches for a peaceful
Ground.
Blood is only better
If turned to consolation.
A dripping blood drop
Might be searching
For a peaceful ground.
Have we ever asked the blood
If it is tired of its spill?
Grief can be changed to poetry,
Anger can be changed to expression.
Let the lights shine
And replace the delights of darkness.
There is no pain
Other than stifled progress.
You lose the day,
But the night carries
The resting revival in its pockets.
WORDPLAY: A GAME OF LIFE
I will be taking a long flight
Above the flames of
Destructive imagination.
Nature is my mirror;
I am afresh with
The playful sun
In the spring's garden.
A slight drizzle of rain
Is my romantic companion.
Poetry comes fresh
From the deep well of life.
A resolute determination
To save what will last
Will be my attire.
Come, hold my hand
And let the wordplay
Guide your life's play.
Wordplay is
A literary construction
I want to make it
Life's literary component,
Which is also
A source of happiness.
Prepared Angela Kosta Executive Director of MIRIADE Magazine, Academic, journalist, writer, poet, essayist, literary critic, editor, translator
