Lost poems



I feel at peace
among the thick woods,
tall swirling ferns,
the bird’s songs,
and the humming creeks.
Here in the secret of the forest
I pinch myself to see
if I am a human
and then I hear myself
humming an old pastoral song
over and over again.
The birds are wheeling
 all around the sky
and away from the stream;
a cuckoo’s song
cracks the stagnant air.
I look out through the window
between the two tree trunks
and stretch my wobbly hands
towards the setting Sun.
My petite fingers touch nothing,
nothing at all, a faint red ball
in the distance remains
just beyond my feeble grasp
and reminds me
of the poems
I’d lost in the
desolate gorges
of the Himalayas
years ago.
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Written on May 06, 2022

Submitted by bhuwan.thapaliya on March 29, 2023

Modified on April 18, 2023

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Stanza Lengths 30

Bhuwan Thapaliya

Bhuwan Thapaliya is a poet writing in English from Kathmandu, Nepal. He works as an economist and is the author of four poetry collections. His poems have been published in Wordcity Literary Journal, Pendemics Literary Journal, Trouvaille Review, Life in Quarantine: Witnessing Global Pandemic Initiative(Witnessing Global Pandemic is an initiative sponsored by the Poetic Media Lab and the Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis at Stanford University), International Human Rights Art Festival, Poetry and Covid: A Project funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council, University of Plymouth, and Nottingham Trent University, Pandemic Magazine, The Poet, Valient Scribe, Strong Verse, Jerry Jazz Musician, VOICES( Education Project), Longfellow Literary Project, Poets Against the War among many others. more…

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