Poetry

In a Prison

Asmita Manandhar My conscience sits in a prisonit cannot breathe, cannot make a decisionmy love,she presses her fingers between minepretending to make our own little...

Poetry

Bimal Kishore Shrivastwa The parents objected,And society cursed their love.Issue was the same: racial, material.But O Hatred! Protest!What magical power thou possess!Love intensified even more;And...

Poetry

Discourses of Time

Gopi Krishna Dhungana I must compose a long, long poemAbout those subalterns of SpivakWho couldn’t speak at allWho were left anonymous andWho pretended to move...

Poetry

Before You Go

Gaurav Ojha Fill your pages with blue and yellow blazeEchoes of mellow grief with your thunderous gazeSEE you have the world hanging on halfWith a...

Poetry

Ballad of a Fox and Lion

Pukar Dhital Creation, we know is mysteriousAnd so is this tale which I am about to tell. So long before you and I had knownThere existed...

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Summary of an Epistle

Sunita Khanal From the dayYou left/departedI became like a half-hillEroded by riverObserving aloneThe field awaiting for sweatFlute waiting for tuneLane waiting for footstepsAnd age awaiting...

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Leprous Thoughts

Sudarshan Poudel Entrances to hospitals are not as narrowAs are the paths along which thoughts travel;The doses of drugs are much more understandable While previous life plays hide-and-seek in a cloud of mistYet, grasping the roots of the past Men of...

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