Ginger tea by Bhuwan Thapaliya

I am sitting by the window now,

and there is nothing to hinder

 my irrational thoughts

from wondering as much as I please.

Life laughs at me, of course,

but one expects that in jealousy.

I may spend all my afternoon

 looking outside

though I am not interested 

in such a time- prone,

 statistics- aware society,

or I could simply pull dad’s

 stuff out of a storage box

and bask them in the sun.

Dad’s favorite coffee glass

may come out again first.

But I have a feeling that

from now on I’d be having

ginger tea, not coffee.

The next few days,

I’m going swimming.

I will plunge into the

bottomless chasm

of my memories

and drown

my fathers

favorite coffee glass.

Let me rejoice,

my renaissance.

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Nepalese poet Bhuwan Thapaliya is the author of four poetry collections. His poems and articles have been widely published in such journals and periodicals such as Kritya, The Foundling Review, Pandemic Magazine, The Poet, Valient Scribe, Strong Verse, Countercurrents.org, myrepublica , The Kashmir Pulse, Taj Mahal Review, Poetry Life and Times, VOICES( Education Project), Longfellow Literary Project, Poets Against the War and many more. His poetries have been published in the CD’s and Books such as The New Pleiades Anthology of Poetry (ISBN 1- 878431-52- 8) , Tonight: An Anthology of World Love Poetry (The Poets Printery, East London, South Africa,2008, pp.118, Paperback, ISBN 0-620-41372-7), The Strand Book of International Poets 2010 , Of Nepalese Clay, Pratik: A Magazine of Contemporary Writing( Spring 2018 Issue ) and many more.