Subash Singh Parajuli
The Poetic Burden an anthology of poetry is totally a landscape, and carries notions of selfhood to reveal moments of approachability and tenderness that are often musing in poet’s mind and heart. The poems are not so self-referential, nor overtly ambitious in this collection of 92 poems published by Authors Press from India. The poet wants to get lost in the musicality of the moment, or the surrender of a second, and so his poems tend to read like reflections on an event that would have otherwise been lost to the everyday eye. Such is the charm of his words. When one reads The Poetic Burden, one reads them not to witness an act of innovation, or sound and image taken to completely new directions, but to meditate on one singular ways to build up good relationship to selfhood and tradition.
When a poetry reader sinks into the poetic journey of Mr. Thapa through his debuted book oneself starts to ask why the title entitled The Poetic Burden and other poems which poems are so intense and philosophically thrilling but how can be a poetry it’s self can be burden to someone else till that is not felt such emotions and eternal beauty of dimensions of life. Most of the poems in this anthology relate to nature, beauty, memories, human nature to harbinger in daily livelihood and motive of serious self-inquiry to have self-realization is profoundly produced for self content.
Sometime his poetry sings very uncommon things and let to musing within the persona of contemporary society. ‘Writing on the Broken Wall’ shows how such abandoned walls can be the best platform for the expression of Poetry and Arts to have influenced and entertained to all the commoners. Such abandoned walls can be great medium of expressions to revolt of prevailing situation of a state or policy. His notions on writing broken walls can be vividly undermined through this stanza:
‘Walls, the publishers of the poor
Just like my broken plight To publish my writings on the wall
Across borders people have been moved by territories of their own
To reach homeland ‘
His poems are so enduring and realistic that reflects our lives and wonderment of life too.
A poem is an expressive art
Nothing but a beating heart
A mind full of questions and Soul full of answers
Through this excerpt from ‘Birth of poem’ title easily states how much the poet has his dedication towards poetry and passion to be playful with words.
The next poem in this anthology The Serene Evening summons not only the sensations of sight but also the beats of music. The line exists to remind us of the reality behind dreams. Despite the language being lofty, filled with all of the opacity of the ad-hoc clacking of words, Miles seeks to ground us in the corporeal. He is attempting to do justice to not only the surrealism of being inside of a dream, but also the very real parameters of it.
‘The Serene Evening’
The sound of crickets in the evening
Rings like a sweet buzz of permanence
Cloaking and enveloping the light
The shadow in my room is lost somewhere.
Sushant’ s poems are mostly touched with simple diction with full of imageries, similes with personal perspectives on varied subject matters and issues that urged the readers to be humane on the various forms of lifestyle. His poems uniquely engages a wider world stuffs to inner world that altogether very necessary for ones living as harmony. His poems are so simple yet descriptive. The pared-back words give the narrative a sense of reportage. The point of the poem is not to beautify words, but to render a scene, and engross the reader in it. The resulting poetic effect comes, then, not from the language but from the gravitas of the story itself. As a debuted poet his many poems are so authentic and classic which are nevertheless not as a poetic burden but so romantic and mind-blowing craft of a piece!
[Parajuli is poet, writer and literary organizer from eastern Nepal and currently resides in Kathmandu who contributed three anthologies Mystic Myth, Soil on Pyre and Symphony of Life)