Basanta Lohani Poems

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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