Life needs a balance
And fragrance to skim
Time caged in clocks.
Sushant Thapa is a poet from Nepal
Sushant Thapa, a poet based in Biratnagar, Nepal, has nine books of English poems and one short story collection to his credit. His poems are published at Sindh Courier, Trouvaille Review, Lothlorien Poetry Journal, Corporeal Lit Mag, etc. He is a lecturer of English in Biratnagar, Nepal.
Stealing Fragrance
Stealing FragranceTake it close,
Make life large.
Like a mirror
That is a world,
The best reflections are
Better touched.
How can you not feel
This affection
Under your skin.
Cheer the teary eyes,
I shall clap
In amusement.
Life is a swing,
Carry on the trust,
When your feet
Shall not touch
The ground.
I shall seek
Like the sunlight
That filters through
Your eyes.
We hold hands
To disprove
That departures exist.
There is a beloved
Dancing in the twilight,
For the lover who
Blindfolds his eyes
And trusts the journey.
I have known in loneliness
That love is also seeking
Constantly to hold.
A flower vase speaks
Of attention,
I steal a fragrance from it.
Life needs a balance
And fragrance to skim
Time caged in clocks.
***
Subtle Arising
A fluttering bird
Left me blinded.
I never felt peace
Descending over me.
I looked for
Every cranny.
I drowned in every sorrow
To taste the authentic
Mode of survival in life.
Life is bare,
I cover it in holes.
Emotions escape,
Hearts douse
The love.
A stranger knocked once.
I opened my art
To welcome her.
My art has accepted her
But she has not accepted
That she is my art.
Oh what subtle differences
Arising.
In the basement,
I meditate for
Touching the realm
Of my future.
This peaceful heart
Seeks a door.
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