Sushant Thapa
A poet from Biratnagar, Nepal 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 (New Delhi, 2020), Abstraction and Other Poems (UK, 2021) and Minutes of Merit (Kolkata, 2021). He has been published in places like The Gorkha Times, The Kathmandu Post, and several international magazines. He has also been published in national and International anthologies. One of his poems is included in the 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, Nepal. Recently he recited his poem “The Poetic Burden” in Kalinga Literary Festival, Kathmandu, Nepal. He was recently awarded with Indology Best Poet Award 2022 from West Bengal, India for his debut poetry book “The Poetic Burden and Other Poems.”
Belonging Somewhere
Living a life
Teaches a moral.
Bearing a soul
Fills the void of emptiness.
A deep source of imagination
Leads to surety of knowledge.
Searches can be held
Until you find
The devotion, the focus
And the outlook.
Wearing your worldview
Does not make you ignorant.
I am amazed with subjectivity
The endless words
Flowing like joyful river.
Coming across the world
Where the crowd is the leader
I have understood the value of one
Among multitudes;
Multitudes that don’t belong nowhere.
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