- Being Ordinary
It isn’t a dismay
That I am ordinary
It isn’t a miracle
That I am extraordinary
Working like a clock
I have not forgotten my time to be creative
There are moments of aloofness
When circles are not round.
A towering ideal is crushed with
The weapon of rigidity.
Again,
I see flowers that emanate
The perfume of naturalness.
Spring is an era of cosmos where
Budding realities wake up to rest
In the lap of zeal and growth.
My flower pot is an artist’s canvas
Where colorful sketches of beauty always dawn
And never set.
The waterdrops erase the thirst
I enjoy the thrift of bliss by nature.
I am a soldier without a gun
Who fights with words and soothing deeds
Yet, I am an ordinary Sun.
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2. New Doors
What matters
Isn’t an attitude
It is a destiny that calls.
Forbidden hard is a shallow heart
Whose echoes are not heard
Remembrance is a magic mirror of the mind.
There are temperate shows
In the theatre of patience
Where dialogues of supremacy
Mix with a common heartbeat
Rising in the streets
And setting in the ghettos
The bearing stirs the perfection
And wishes to be pure and true.
The blades of grass
Next to a flower
Dreams in spring
When the next-door winter
Wanders away.
Perception of living like weather
Opens new doors
In every grim possibilities.
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Sushant Thapa is a Nepalese poet from Biratnagar, Nepal who holds a Master’s degree in English literature from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. He has published three books of poetry namely: The Poetic Burden and Other Poems (Authorspress, New Delhi, 2020), Abstraction and Other Poems (Impspired, UK, 2021) and Minutes of Merit (Haoajan, Kolkata, 2021). Sushant has been published in places like The Gorkha Times, The Kathmandu Post, The Poet Magazine, The Piker Press, Trouvaille Review, Lothlorien Poetry Journal, Impspired, Harbinger Asylum, New York Parrot, Pratik Magazine, The Beatnik Cowboy, The Dope Fiend Daily, Atunis Poetry, EKL Review, The Kolkata Arts, Dissident Voice, Journal of Expressive Writing, As It Ought To Be Magazine and International Times among many. He has also been anthologized in national and International anthologies. His poem is also included in Paragon English book for Grade 6 students in Nepal. He teaches Business English to Bachelor’s level students of BBA and BIT at Nepal Business College, Biratnagar, Nepa