Blessing Notes
I look at the world,
I step out
Of luxury.
I am an unspoken solace.
Who knocked me down?
Who raised me like flower?
I met thousands of walkers,
I kissed one art like life.
My departure must be happy,
I look at you,
A bare silence eating you
From within.
Expressions can fill your eyes,
And make you empty
To fill like a dance of worship.
Rejoice in expression
Buy in blessing notes,
Your own version of
The world.
Come Together
Come again
Let’s kiss the rose.
Let it bloom,
Let it not be plucked
Like the lie
That befell as a curse
By the ugly world
That tried to separate us.
There is a dark rain
That fell at night
Silent like a lost key.
I rose like holy chants
At the midnight hour.
Yes, the night was howling
The secrets of dawn
Which it foresaw as a life
In us.
The time is still passing
Like our heartbeats.
The rose will not fade
Like the unloving world.
Dying of Hunger
There is a statue,
An old one.
It has an umbrella
For the rain,
Boots for the feet,
And a smile
For the weak.
I can only relate it to
The under nourished world
Where unborn artists
Who sculpts such statues
Die of hunger
In their childhood.
Bittersweet Symphony
The evening falls,
I hear your departure.
Preaching sermons
Make me weak,
I keep chanting for your presence,
The faded photograph smiles
At my darkness.
One thin touch of remembrance
Can cure the amnesiac memory,
In love’s bittersweet symphony.
Stars sing,
The moon lays its opera.
The universe is a spiritual dot,
My mask is your honesty,
Nothing is hidden among us.
We share dreams
And the world kisses your feet.
I surrender to your footsteps
And I knock down my gate
Of unmoving walls.
Imagination spills
And lightens up the night sky.
I have created a beloved
In my poetry.
Updated Bio: Sushant Thapa has published Nine books of English poetry, namely: The Poetic Burden and Other Poems (Authorspress, New Delhi, 2020), Abstraction and Other Poems (Impspired, UK, 2021), Minutes of Merit (Haoajan, Kolkata, 2021), Love’s Cradle (World Inkers Printing and Publishing, New York, USA and Senegal, Africa, 2023), Spontaneity: A New Name of Rhyme (Ambar Publication House, New Delhi, 2023), Chorus of Simplicity and Other New Poems (Ukiyoto Publishing, 2024), Finding My Soul in Kathmandu (Ukiyoto Publishing, 2024), The Walking Rebel Micropoems and Poems (Transcendent Zero Press, Houston, Texas, USA) and My Grandfather Had Been a Cowboy (Ukiyoto Publishing, 2025). He has also published a collection of flash fiction and short stories titled “The One Rupee Taker and Other Stories from Nepal” published in 2024 by Ukiyoto Publishing. Sushant has translated a book of poems by Nepalese Poet Kamal Dhungana entitled “Dark Shadows”. It was published by Authorspress, New Delhi, India in 2022. He is an English lecturer in Biratnagar, Nepal.