Basanta Lohani

I watch the sun pass by
That is what I’ve been doing
Days passed, months rolled and years slipped away
But I am never tired of watching the sun pass by.
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My infancy blazes
In silent hate
Like fire in dried grass
And smolders in the subconscious.
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With anguish oozing like dewdrops
I came to the Lord's playground.
It is Brindavan.
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When mortals refuse to reconcile
Vulgar pretensions flourish
To conceal the oppressor’s psyche
Like a dam
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Philosophical musings
Gushing out of half-baked brains
Form a mushy tarn
Smelling of stagnant shrewdness.
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परसम्म फैलिएको
पातलिएको त्यो पहाडी जङ्गलको
उकालो वरालो बाटोमा
रात परेपछि म्यान्टोलको उज्यालोमा
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Why are you cheesed, my friend?
Why so drained out and starved?
Why accumulate only to grudge?
Think!
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Multiple plays
Multiple players
Each playing its own to outwit the other
Using one against the other
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In the battlefield
war horses fight for him
Because he is stripped of
What they enjoy the most
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के मान्छे यात्रा विहीन हुन सक्छ? -
अवश्य सक्छ
यदि उ भीडमा हराएको छ भने
अभाव भन्ने बित्तिकै हामी भौतिक अभाव मान्छौँ
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बन्दुकाको निसाना लाग्दा लाग्दा
रक्ताम्मे भएको मन
अब नदुख्ने भइसकेको छ
त्यसैले चरैतिरबाट निशाना दागिरहेका
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A flower can bloom
In the wildness of nature
Without you nurturing it.
You are a Nobdy.
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Life is a cruel joke.
You come across con artists
Who have looted institutions
Reducing them to rubbles
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I remember
When I was defeated
You gave me a hero’s welcome
My darling, you were a puzzle then.
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A void encompassing
Mountains and planes
Rivers and lakes
Forests and villages
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Tormented voices echo all around the valley
Their ripples dissolving in the distant woods
Mingle with the quiet river
And blow with the wind.
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तीन खेलहरु
तीन खेलाडीहरु
प्रत्येकले आफ्नो खेल मात्र खेलिरहेका छन्
आर्कोलाई परास्त गर्न
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समय
एउटा प्रवाह
न आदि न अन्त्य
अविभाजित
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यात्री धेरै छन्
तर कुन यात्राबाट कहा पुग्ने
देबालयमा पुग्ने कि
अनाथालयमा पुग्ने
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तिम्रो प्रत्येक बिहानीमा
मैले हरियाली ओढेको छु
जीवनको हरेक क्षणमा
एउटै गीत गाएको छु
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