Bhuwan Thapaliya

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Published On: June 27, 2017 10:32 AM NPT By: Bhuwan Thapaliya

Forsaken Village

Forsaken Village

Parched fields,

rusted farm fences,

forlorn stone

and mud-thatched houses.

Rotting scarecrows

everywhere,

except the dancing squirrels

nothing moves.

Danuwar communities

that once pulsed life

atop these plains

have been swallowed

by the cavernous city mouths

and the half-baked Arab dreams.

Where shops and stores

once stood,

only the forgotten

dreams and the ghosts

of long dead

ancestors remain.

And somewhere

in the undulating tide

of grass and grit

rests one man’s integrity,

his chance to reckon

with an unsettled history.

slammed, poetry, poem,

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