Poetry by Chandra Gurung
DESERT: A LIFE IN MIRAGE
On the canvas of countenance
Not a single streak of smile is sketched.
Neither is grace seen blooming over cheeks
Like a garden
Where every butterfly of colours has flown away
This barren and bland desert!
From all sides
Come the parched hands of breeze
To caress the youth of desiccated brushwood
The lonesome eyes devoid of exhilaration
The mountain of solitude
Taking heights gradually inside!
For all day long
The eyes keep meeting with the blithe sun
Keeps the sirocco tongue-in-cheek
As if it could bring back a stranger with its youth
As if it would woo someone with its impish gesture
Waiting for an amorous embrace
A bride-like dream is thus living!
In the barren bosom adorned are date trees green
Festooned between earlobes are the poised cacti
In the caravan of copious desires
A mirage life this is!
About Chandra
Chandra is originally from Nepal. His first anthology was published in the year of 2007, in Nepali language, its title’s word for word meaning is; No Map Of The Country In His Heart consisting 33 poems, and has had a number of titles published since. For Chandra, poems are the beautiful birds with colourful wings of metaphors.
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