Kuma Raj Subedi
Bilingual Australian poet and translator, Mr. Subedi, is also a recipient of The Best Poet of the Event Award in the International Nazrul Poetry Festival-2023, Bangladesh. He is an accomplished Lecturer at TafeSA, Australia
The God of Night
In a haunted house
Chants from Kanphatta yogi
Tells a bewitching story
That cure in utter darkness
Guarantees the next sunshine.
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Catalyst
During broad daylight
The cure from the yogi’s chants
Bring bold cheerfulness
Turning omen into bliss
As chlorine breaks down ozone.
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The tanka is a thirty-one-syllable poem, traditionally written in a single unbroken line. A form of waka, Japanese song or verse, tanka translates as “short song,” and is better known in its five-line, 5/7/5/7/7 syllable count form.
