Poetry

Now He is Retired!

By Dhruva Thapa Sam,it’s your last day in jobWe can’t extend your visa anymorePlease join tomorrow’s farewell partyA note from his boss compelled to think. Suddenly...

Poetry

By Ayodhyanath Choudhary Considering myself unworthyI pray to God from the premisesbut this sweet-sixteen—that fully-grown onethis known and that unknownthis white-complexioned and that blackish onethis...

Poetry

The Foundation

By Parijat My Love! Today is a day-off!Won’t you turn your profound eyes to meFollowing whose manifestationsI wish to land on the shore of life. My...

Poetry

Cult

By Bimal Kishore Shrivastwa The pursuit of taboosis likened to the pursuit of blessings.Humans, from cradle to coffin,are snared in cults. The frail woman’s fast-vowing for...

Poetry

The Letterbox

By Kamala Tamang The red-faced letterboxStands desertedBy the edge of a busy road I often pass by that road The letterbox used to standWith a smiling postureIn...

Poetry

Are We Free?

By Manahari Kshitiz “The human world is free”Declared the emperor declared many times—“You are free; we are free, all free.”Are we free?Who can answer the...

Poetry

The Basket

By Pragati Rai When she got a basketMy little daughter forgot everything—Forgot food, forgot her mom.When she got the basketShe forgot my lap.How can a...

Creations

Sun, Tree and Cobweb

Tulasi Diwasa Old suna splinter bounced from Time’s mountainperhaps a black spidernowcaught in the day’s branchesknits consistently a web drawing lines of demarcationin the remaining...

Poetry

Should I

By Sabita Gautam Dahal Should I talk aboutmy chain-Pain,An attack of severe migraineMy irritation when the menstrual cycleshows its extremity. Should I share aboutMy nightmares,My sleeplessness,My...

Poetry

The Day of Light

By Sanjaya Manandhar (Manjeel) How happy all the people are—Rushing, jumping, running, shouting, dancing!They’re feeling like cotton,Flying like a bird in the air;Their feet nowhere...

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