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Translated Poem : Slippers

~Bhupendra Khadka~ Translated by Jayant Sharma One day while crossing the wooden bridge I got a splinter on my infantile foot sole Rubbing off the slime running down my nose with the left sleeve of my shirt I was about … Continue reading

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Translated Poem : To Orchid

~Rupak Shrestha~ Translated from Nepali by himself Oh, Orchid, you, on the window lane of mine keep blooming throughout the year despite weather despite season despite water spreading affectionate petals. You, neither cast any shade nor know to pierce but,

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Translated Poem : Worthiness

~Bhisma Upreti~ Translated by Meenu Minocha Afore leaving home in the morn Detach did I my face from my body And placed it in the frame on the wall Next extracted my heart from my chest Depositing it in the … Continue reading

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Translated Poem : The sea of Humanity

~Tanka Upreti~ Translated from Nepali by Manu Manjil Nearing a state of being a flood, Then cracking her clear cheeks against the cliff the river reached deep down me deserting her usual course. Spirits charged,

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Translated Poem : Life in the begging bowl of death

~Usha Sherchan~ Translated by: Manjushree Thapa Emptiness. emptiness. ultimate emptiness in a gigantic cage locked vehicles keep rolling transporting empty passengers transporting empty breasts in the silence, one hears wails and sobs covered volcanoes in the emptiness, lives and deaths … Continue reading

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Translated Poem : Sun and Cobweb

~Tulasi Diwasa~ Translated by Abhi Subedi Old sun- a splinter bounced from Time’s mountain perhaps a black spider now caught in the day’s branches knits a web consistently drawing lines of demarcation in the remaining time even in that little … Continue reading

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Translated Poem : Mother

~Govinda Giri Prerna~ Translated by Mahesh Paudyal Here’s a chilling instance of taming a daughter-in-law. A woman—ready to deliver any moment goes out to gather fodder fills her basket with utter difficulty gathers turfs, added to the burden inside the … Continue reading

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Translated Poem : The Ugly Verse

~Bhupeen~ Translated from Nepali by Manu Manjil how does a parliament smell differently from the way a crematorium does? what difference really is there in the cold blood of a court of law and that of a butcher’s? just outside … Continue reading

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Translated Peom : Old-age Home in the Countryside

~Prollas Sindhulia~ Translated by Mahesh Poudyal We, the old couple, are alone in the village Our kids are away There are no grandchildren That chirp like birds at daybreak There are flowers At the edge of the front yard But … Continue reading

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Translated Poem : Third eye – 1

~Dr. Dubasu Chettri~ Translated by Mahesh Poudyal Enough has been the things This pair of eyes have seen I am tired now; stunned too I am fragmented in myself I cannot stand to see My own calamity befalling me I … Continue reading

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Translated poem : Procession of Coloured Voices

~Tulasi Diwas~ Translated by Abhi Subedi Blue voices Jumping down the sky Float over the blue ocean Red voices Emitted by martyr’s blood Drying steadily Spillover rhododendron petals Yellow voices Descending from the evening horizons Are nesting In the ordered … Continue reading

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Translated Poem : River and the Bodhi Tree

~Tulasi Diwas~ Translated by Abhi Subedi Nights, crest fallen in the fight with the light, jumping out unexpectedly from the latticed windows and doors opened up to welcome the light have descended hurriedly to the street, bands of darkness becoming– … Continue reading

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Translated Poem : ‘Tree: A Mental Picture’

~Tulasi Diwas~ Translated by Abhi Subedi In the heart of Tapovan* Standing for sometime With the trees in ecstasy of meditation And talking to them in the trees’ idioms Like a tree myself A revelation came to me – Eternal … Continue reading

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Translated Poem : Nepal Calling You

~Suresh Jung Shah~ Translated by Sangita Swechcha Glaciers of the mountains Whistles of the green hills Calling you Oh my darling Where are you? Melodies of the singing birds Art of the dancing peacocks Calling you Oh my darling Where … Continue reading

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Translated Poem : On a beautiful rainy day

~Viplov Pratik~ Translated by Sangita Swechcha Clouds are making noise, heavily As if the heart of the sky is about to burst with pain. A strong beat she feels in her chest The first shiver of the thunder Moves into … Continue reading

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Translated Poem : Come with your friends and beloved!

~Komal Malla~ Translated by Bhagirath Yogi My country is the country of Mount Everest Please come to view the tallest peak in the world My country is the country of Gautam Buddha Please come to breathe peace Come, with your … Continue reading

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Translated Poem : New Year

~Shailendra Sakar~ Translation : Manjushree Thapa This new year too in those same eyes the same stamp of theatricality I wanted to learn and I’m going to see each moment of time passing by a unit of time I wanted … Continue reading

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Translated Poem : Time

~Shailendra Sakar~ Translation : Manjushree Thapa Hanging an x-ray of a friend’s fractured hand like a frame in the center of a room’s clean wall I look at it and see an illusion- It’s a carved lattice window It’s possible … Continue reading

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Translated Poem : To Poet Devkota

~Siddhicharan Shrestha~ Translation : Manjushree Thapa Wounded bird, what can I say your bruises are gathering still The world wants to snatch from you even your soul This is the way perhaps of the foundation’s desire to hear the song … Continue reading

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Translated Poem : Perhaps!

~Momila~ Translation: Manjushree Thapa Perhaps! The young girl draws a border by the pond beside the house This is my home, Father! The young girl draws a border in the translated distance of passion

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Translated Poem : A Street Child’s Question To His Father

~Jhamak Kumari Ghimire~ Translation : Manjushree Thapa Baba! I’ll ask you a question if you won’t shout it down for though you can boast a hundred thousand offspring I have only one father Baba! Have you forgotten me amid the … Continue reading

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Translated Poem : What is the interpretation of the new Millennium ?

~Jhamak Kumari Ghimire~ Translation : Manjushree Thapa A soft light glimmers on the eve of people’s deaths The fern unfurls out of season without its stem having matured

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Translated Poem : At the loss of rhododendron

~Momila~ Translation: Manjushree Thapa (To Pasang Lhamu Sherpa) At the loss of a rhododendron I thought of- an evening of cherry blossoms in flower a night of the redolent parijat flower the pain of purple jacarandas on the stree

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Translated Poem : I’m crushing my ages

~Manjul~ Translation : Manjushree Thapa I’m crushing my ages along with these stones my days and nights my wishes and dreams I myself am being crushed

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Translated Poem : Deranged

~Laxmi Prasad Devkota~ Translation : Manjushree Thapa Certainly, friend! I’m deranged! Such is my state! I see words, hear images, taste smells, touch things that are slighter than the sky. things whose existence no one admits to, whose shape the … Continue reading

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Translated Poem : DIsplacement

~Govinda Bartaman~ Translation : Manjushree Thapa Melancholy marches like policemen Peals of silence resonate in the obscene remoteness Words take ill Letters nod off on sheets of paper The snow-peaks, mountains and valleys mind over the harvests of the dead

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Translated Poem : A Life Threatening Cold

~Rajab~ Translation : Manjushree Thapa Important persons in the office have come down with colds. This is why these important persons are not performing any work now. The important persons

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Translated Poem : My Country and Me

~Nirmal Tamang~ Translation : Raja Puniani Only to boost own development rate My beloved country works hard. And keeps me abreast of her development rate. I am ruined For I am abandoned From my due right to enjoy a share … Continue reading

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Translated Poem : The Tree

~Manjul~ Translated by Mallika Shakya Look at the tree through the window It looks back at you Embodying your own self Standing in the darkness Alone Feeling cold

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Translated Poem : Darjeeling Again

~Mohan Thakuri~ Translation : Raja Puniani Even the colored tiny dreams Don’t belong to me. I think so. I am frightened I am skeptic To listen to the stranger thudding footsteps Somewhere inside me.

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Translated Poem : Word can’t be composed

~Manoj Bogati~ Translation : Suraj Dhadkan Word doesn’t have wing it doesn’t need wing even to fly like a bird does it may fly wingless, though reaches elsewhere, it wants. A person who touch the word, touch the life there … Continue reading

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Translated Poem : A Night In December

~Manprasad Subba~ Translation : Suraj Dhadkan Endangered is the Time being eaten by germs. In a corner of the ruins enveloped by the smoke of marijuana droops December, with smoking pipe in hand.

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