Eng. Santosh Kumar Pokharel
Today’s Poem
No poem did come out today
My mind went astray
Didn’t either want to revert
Probably someone’s urge dragged it away
I am still amazed
Smells it got caged.
I waited for it from morning till late
Hope’s no more to await.
May it return even tomorrow
In a fresh getup and disguise
That moment may poems again rise.
But in fifty-fifty though that won’t me bother
Less for myself
More for the other.
Sincerity of a Poet
Exchange my generosity with money today!
How much shall it cost?
For her a gift I should pay.
I have imparted a lot of generosity to her
She got satiated to her full though
The stomach does not yet full, show.
Goodwill entered an ear
And from the other blew out
It did not sing either nor any melody brought about.
So someone come buy my generosity!
By paying a fair price
I need to invest in her needs, I say in precise.
I have no hope of fruit in return though
Will be happy if she some interest does show
If she’s indifferent indifference will follow.
A poet full of compassion here says
I’m like that
And this is my image.
[Santosh Kumar Pokharel is a senior Civil Engineer and a noted multilingual poet and translator from Nepal. A member of different literary sites and publications, Mr. Pokharel is a published poet and has hundreds of poems and four published books, Tarako Puchchhar (2014), Sacramento Poems (2014), Engineer Santosh Pokharelka Kavitaharu (2018) and Modesty Poems (2014). He is the translator of Eldar Ahadov’s Fairy Tales from Russian into English. His poems have been published in Nepali, English, Hindi, Russian, Turkmeni and Hungarian. For his works, he has been honored with Meerut University Literary Awards Merut (2017), Eternity International literary Award Bhuwaneshwar (2018), International Award for Creative Writing (2018), Aurangabad Maharashtra, and World Congress of Poets Participation Awards (2019).