Sushant Thapa
There is a fashion of sadness
That falls down
In every corner and main road,
I betray the sadness
And the winter sun
Is not shy anymore.
I have a fire within
The sun is just a sight.
Life is a running stream
It is a devouring of the sadness.
I try to be happy all the time
And my sadness isn’t an effort.
I learn the grief in the world
And labor to crush my grapes
For the wine sweeter than the grapes
In the vine.
An outlook gives me a way
Someone rightly said,
“My destination isn’t a place
But a new way of seeing things.”
I say my happiness is a new way
Of seeing things.
(Sushant Thapa is a Nepalese poet from Biratnagar-13, Nepal who holds a Master’s degree in English literature from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. He has published five books of 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) and Spontaneity: A New Name of Rhyme (Ambar Publication House,2023). Sushant has been published in places like Sahitya Post, The Gorkha Times, The Kathmandu Post, The Poet Magazine, The Piker Press, Trouvaille Review, Lothlorien Poetry Journal, Impspired, Harbinger Asylum, New York Parrot, Pratik Magazine, The Beatnik Cowboy, The Dope Fiend Daily, Atunis Poetry, EKL Review, The Kolkata Arts, Dissident Voice, Journal of Expressive Writing, As It Ought To Be Magazine, Spillwords, Mad Swirl, Ink Pantry, International Times and Outlook India among many. Sushant received Yashaswi Book Awards 2079 for his third book of poems “Minutes of Merit” in the recently held Kaling Literary Festival, Kathmandu. Sushant has also received Indology Best Poet Award 2022 from West Bengal, India and Sahitto Award from Bangladesh.)
