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Teelak Pokharel

1. Mystery

Drawing a map of the earth
The little son asked his father:
“Daddy, is our world really like this?”
Pointing at the roof of their house
The father said:
“My child, our world is like that.”

            ***

2. Rage

Seeing him,
Flames inside the heart had emanated
Without a curl of smoke!

However, without letting the smoke disperse
All around the outer universe
I swallowed and tamed it within!

The fire died out;
The world was back to peace.

***

3.Identity

In reality
I had been away
To procure his identity.

Lo, I happened to return home
Tendering my identity to him.
All he did was grinned;

Grinning, after all, entailed an art!

***

[Teelak Pokharel is a poet of Nepali origin from Myanmar. He is also a good translator.]

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