Tonight, I will step out
Again in my Varandah
After the lights are put off.
I love to walk in the dark
The silence is too soft to step
There is stillness like the enflamed candle.
Shouldn’t there still be calmness
After the candle is put off?
I love to walk in my Varandah
After the lights are off.
I lose the robes of light
My role as a service of delight
Is also put off, for a while.
In the breathing silence
I sing in muteness
But the heart echoes
In greatest sprawling measure
Like a vast scenic green field
With silver waters
Shining like vast desires.
The road in front of my home
Is like a flowing river
No harsh melody
When leaves fall into it.
I wish life was like the cotton touch
Of this night that has matured,
From evening,
So close and so heartfelt.
Bio: Sushant Thapa is a Nepalese poet and fiction writer from Biratnagar-13, Nepal, with ten books of poems to his credit and two books of short stories. The books of poems are: The Poetic Burden and Other Poems (Authorspress, New Delhi, 2020), Abstraction and Other Poems (impspired, UK, 2021), Minutes of Merit (Haoajan Publishers, Kolkata, 2021), Love’s Cradle (World Inkers Printing and Publishing, New York, New York, Dakar, Senegal, 2023), Spontaneity: A New Name of Rhyme (Ambar Publication House, New Delhi, 2023), Chorus of Simplicity and Other New Poems (Ukiyoto Publishing, Philippines, India, USA, 2024), Finding My Soul in Kathmandu (Ukiyoto Publishing, Philippines, India, USA, 2024), My Grandfather Had Been a Cowboy (Ukiyoto Publishing, Philippines, India, USA, 2025), The Walking Rebel (Transcendent Zero Press, Houston, Texas, USA, 2025) and When I Desire and Other Poems (Ukiyoto Publishing, Philippines, India, USA, 2026).
His first collection of flash fiction and short stories is titled “The One Rupee Taker and Other Stories from Nepal” published by Ukiyoto Publishing in 2024. His second collection of short stories is titled “The White Dot and Other Stories” published by Transcendent Zero Press based in Houston, Texas, USA in 2026.
Thapa holds an M.A. in English from Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, India. Curriculum Development Center has approved a poem by Sushant Thapa titled “Festivities” to be taught in Grade 6 in Nepal. It is included in the book Paragon English.
