The Town Bell by Sushant Thapa

After being in the business for long

The sailor exclaimed a relief one evening

When he had sailed a poet in his last boat.

Across the river, the poet went

To the town where the name plate

In front of the houses were golden.

It came to the astonishment of the poet,

"What do golden names signify if not called upon?"

"The silence is too boring, 

Let me gong the bell in the town hall," the poet said.

He kept thinking when the lantern in the street daylight

Was carried by a lunatic in a book 

Who must have read those words?

The bell in the town hall felt like the same lantern,

But the poet does not attest to be a lunatic

For his absence of abstract senses and

Absence of his own words in the new town.

"There is no complain after ringing the town bell silently."   

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Sushant Thapa is a Nepalese poet from Biratnagar,Nepal. He has published two poetry books namely: "The Poetic Burden and Other Poems" and "Abstraction and Other Poems" from New Delhi and England respectively. Sushant has been widely published across the globe in print, online, school book and anthologies. He holds a Master's degree in English literature from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.