Arrival of Winter | Sushant Thapa

-Sushant Thapa

The sunrays are warmer

For the arrival of winter.

The succulent apple

Tastes heavenly.

Winter has a tender glow

In its glittering attire.

The mist in my garden walk

Touches my feet,

War and earthquake

Becomes a prick in my heart,

Yet, I choose to walk

And walk.

A soothing agony

Mixes like a whirlpool of blood.

I have colours that nurture,

Help and grow.

A growing age of childhood's innocence

Has been suffocated

By the grown, age of experience

I wish the arrival of winter

Washes the weather of war.

Sushant Thapa (born in 1993) is an award-winning 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 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) and Spontaneity: A New Name of Rhyme (Ambar Publication House, New Delhi, 2023).