Subash Singh Parajuli
Spring: An Adept Director is a debuted anthology of hundred poems in English language composed by very revered and acclaimed personality especially in Nepali Literature and Politics; Lokendra Bahadur Chand (Rt. honorable Prime Minister) and published by Brosis Publishers and Distributors from India. This masterpiece anthology weaves contemplative thoughts and complexities of life and poet’s inner perception of finding the path of hidden truth and eternity through the forms of poems. Every creations of this book blends reminiscing moments with harsh realities of the whole world that humans are anonymously bearing in this present time and equally pleads to seek healing balms and remedies of social problems and evils in the form of poems. Poetry is a kind of revelation and art of psych acts, intellectual therapy and sometimes let to be fooled by fools. Like mirror reflects wrinkles and beauty of your face; poetry doesn’t only do confrontation with feelings, emotions, experiences of both mind and body but sometimes tells more beyond human perceptions and intuitions of life like Lokenda Bahadur Chand’s poems does and embark once lost tunes of life and sufferings, decaying attitude towards nationality and lofty attitude of humankind. And he himself does lamentation somewhere seeing such pathetic situation of the state and being found hapless through his poems.
‘Some evil spirits has touched my heart with silver stick
Alluring for worldly pelf so nature’s gift that I don’t want to own
Feel distressed like an old prisoner
And none comes with golden stick
To rescue me from giant’s jail and bring in my life a new dawn……’
His verses glide with time, flux and duration with the flow of personal life and flashes about bygone time and lifetime experiences which has no compensation and comparison to be restored or to be sought in anyone’s life. His each poems give us insightful thoughts and drive to plunge in mundane world and collectively plead to revive nostalgic momentum in loneliness to musing in delightfully. Poetry is a form of arts of words that sews a garland of emotions and feelings in a single thread of love and hatred, smile and tears, war and peace, ife and death; the synchronization of words, metrical calculation, pondering over poetic tunes, unprecedented images, deconstructive thoughts within constructive deliberation and sense of wit within humor are true qualities of Chand’s poetic creation to scale an ephemeral height.
He offers vent to his feelings in straight forwarded language which put poetic aura to each stanza very lively. Most of his poems render very unique and ancient heroic characters images and each have metaphysical forms. Some poems like Spring, Thoughts Come and Go, The Beggar, The Seeds will Sprout, Snare of Dreams, Dyed in Blue, The Night of Lights, Thirsty Bank, The Voice of Soul, My Faith, Where is a Golden Stick, Who Tore it? really longs for love, pursuit of tranquility, sojourn of peace and prosperity in infectious mind and selfish body.
(An excerpt from “Who Tore It?”)
‘Everyone has broken bonds and has fallen into ecstasy
It is only you who is even now in a state of melancholy
Who stole your life’s book and tore the pages of sweatiness
Stealthily, and replaced with chapters of misery and bitterness……
Every poems do have delightful flight to get essence of life in broken wings and mean hearts. Eventually, this anthology is a reflection of his inner perception of life, love, beauty of nature and tidal of time and life beyond it’s existence with simultaneous experiences and remarks to see a fine picturesque of eternity from extremity!
A Short Bio-note on Lokendra Bahadur Chand
Lokendra Bahadur Chand, a former Prime Minister of Nepal who assumed four times Primeministership in different ages for years before the declaration of Federal Republic of Nepal. He hails from Far-Western region of Nepal. He achieved one of the widely celebrated prize in Nepali Literature ‘ Madan Prusakar’ for his book ‘ Bisarjan’, a collection of short stories. He published three poetry anthologies in Nepali language and one is in Hindi. He penned five short stories including ‘Bisarjan’. Two books are related to satirical articles including ‘The Chair’.
His one act plays equally got much applauded while being staged known as ‘Neta Ko Sathi’.
Spring: An Adept Director is a collection of one hundred poems which are written in different modes of life and situation after being retirement from his political life and his party.
[Reviewer Parajuli is a Nepali poet and educator. He has published three anthologies of poems in English: Mystic Myth, Soil on Pyre and Symphony of Life. He lives in Kathmandu.]