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Three Leaves

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

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