Dhurba Gautam
The results of hard work and labor,
Art and craft go hand-in-hand
Spider web.
Bottom, top, right, left
Is it an invisible force, a dream or a hypnosis?
The spider is in constant construction.
The artistic web is spreading its wings.
A beetle,
A bee,
An ant,
Countless tiny tongues slowly fall into the snare and suffocate to death.
All of a sudden,
A hunting eagle breaks its net and sits freely in the yard of the court.
[Gautam is a Nepali poet. A lecturer of English at Shankar Dev Campus, TU, he loves writing poems on subtle, philosophical themes.]