Fire and Love
Do not embark on love, if you may!
But if you do
Love the way fire loves a corpse
Without asking its caste
Without enquiring its disposition!
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Dust
People!
Do not belittle everything that is under the feet!
Each speck of dust underneath your feet lives
Having on board its chest
One Mount Everest at least
All that is awaited now
Is a potent storm!
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Thorns
The feet
Fell in love with slippers
Only after thorns pricked them
I reckoned:
Getting pricked by thorns
Does not merely entail pain.
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[Pradip Yonghang (b. 2000) is a Nepali poet from Dharan. His poems have been collected in Ujyaloka Maliharu, a collection of poems by young Nepali poets. He has also been widely featured in other media. He is also a literary activist and is associated with Kalkoot Literary Group, based in Dharan.]
Pradip Yonghang