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Planning a Trial by Sushant Thapa

fresh poem by Nepal’s Sushant Thapa

Final Closing by Sushant Thapa

The rocking chair, The childhood swing, The first kiss, The velvety garden walk. Fresh and forgotten, Two walks of life. A survivor and a dreamer. A bed of lies, A true crime: Leaving and Not looking back, except For a leaf Of emotional notes. Snow and the sun Depart and melt. Two footprints And a […]Read Post ›

When a Joker Becomes a Dictator by Bishwa Sigdel (translated by Sushant Thapa from Nepali)

popular poet of Nepal Biswa Sigdel translated into English by Sushant Thapa

Versions by Sushant Thapa

I kick off The contemplation. It is called vibrancy. Come closer We have a long journey To go through. We met in hazy days, What could we have done, Nobody chooses a thorn And dislikes a budding rose. Efforts are underway, But life is a rolling stone. It goes on, Not in our version, But […]Read Post ›

Leaving Behind a Trail by Sushant Thapa

short fiction about staking your claim in the everchanging world

What is Holy by Sushant Thapa

Nepalese poet Sushant Thapa

Freedom from Rush Hour by Sushant Thapa

poem from Nepal

Poetry Like a Forgotten Handkerchief: Reading Sushant Thapa’s The Walking Rebel by Wani Nazir

All of the pieces are emotional snapshots, some just a moment long and others stretching on like a season. Kind of philosophical, but actually quite literal. Somewhere where grief and joy don’t have to be sugar coated but can just be messy and even complicated, yet weirdly beautiful.

Pushing Away by Sushant Thapa

I feast inappropriatelyand postpone working daysenslaved by constantDigital Surveillanceday by day. More working lies growlike lilacs out of the dead.This life has been a textand its ashesare being grown.Something literaryarises like massive waves and the sunken shipsomehow finds its way.I find each morning musicalthe night feels as if no sleepneeds to be unembraced.Is it a happiness risingor a cursed agewhere […]Read Post ›