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born 1967 Nepal

Suman Pokhrel (September 21, 1967) is a Nepali poet, lyricist, translator and artist. He is noted for creating impressionable images across his poems that revolve around the nuances of life.

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Let us be honest
we have praised Angulimala
will make no difference
if you convey my salute to Amrapali.

I found the Taj Mahal as the most appropriate example of artistically expressed love.

I felt I was getting enraged
and losing my speech
like them losing their dreams.

Trust isn't solely about keeping faith in others' promises; it's also about being dependable in the promises we've made to others.

I was feeling like mad
by the melody of birds
singing out of tune
in the settlements
where travels lose
their own destinations.

I have offered
many of my self to you
to get a single you.

Lampposts look
in the glow of their defeated light
robbed by the fog
but cannot tell
if the streets
lying by stretching limbs in courtyards
are sleeping face downwards or supine.

May I exchange T.S. Eliot’s The Wasteland
with the future of this earth like a lunatic’s dreams
and make one season of poetry farming
by tilling with the pen of desire.

In translation of poetry; there exists a possibility of components like imagination, art of wordplay, skill of constructing internal rhythm and expand of knowledge of the poet getting affected by the constraint and differentia of the translator.

I had read on the face of surroundings;
some broken, some disconnected, some cracked expectations.

May I show a true model
of deconstruction to Derrida
by taking off parts that make up my being!

May I discard the outer cover of time
from the layers of poetry
by immersing the poet in its entirety
within me

I could not say
which one was more authentic,
their fate or
the slender woody sticks
that supported their shacks.

When this flood blocks the road
I am worried more
by my soil getting washed,
than by getting late
to reach my destination.

Anything that touches my heart holds the potential to inspire me.

May I not so much, so much be lost, just
To see the hue, grace, glory gone
Off the face of my beloved
As I’d wake and be conscious.

My ultimate aspiration in life is to contribute to a world where peace prevails, as peace is the ultimate achievement to realize in life.

Let me not so much be lost in involvements
as would make me incapable of
recognizing the fragrance of the flower
beaming in my own yard.

I shall not go out at all
given that my love is here
shall always stay attached to these hearts.
I shall never bid farewell to this place!
But I have to send this body
anyhow from here.

Literary translation is not merely an act of picking words from one language and keeping it by dipping in the vessel of another language. Those words need to be rinsed, washed, carved and decorated as much as possible.

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Suman Pokhrel (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.