FIRE & Other Poems

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Kamal Dhungana FIRE & Other Poems

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Hunger I see shortcomings I see children screaming with hunger I see a handful of rice cooking in the heat I see a family suffering from hunger The wife asks, "Pass the food now."

I avoid being hungry Saying that you are really hungry but not hungry The biggest pain is.

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FIRE Once upon a time, our love was like a river.

We both were flowing together; for so long, we both had been like water!

But today, You burnt our love.

You are no longer like water, nor like a fire, you escaped untouched But I have been burnt not for once, but twice.

At first by the fire of departure, and then, by sprinkling the lamp oil on my own!

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The Red You always disliked it; the RED color I found out later, you had always disliked those red roses of valentines.

I wrote to you with my blood.

You disliked those red love letters.

You even disliked the red sindoor, I had brought to adorn you.

One day You, caught in an accident; were in need of blood.

After your relatives' refusal, how come you accepted my blood?

How did you like your colorful life survived with my blood?

After all, that too was RED in color!

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Mother's face Carrying a mountain of sorrows for ages Swimming in the ocean of hunger while not starving He stood in the sun as the shadow of his children It has been blackened by the sun for ages Cheeks cracked, ripe hair The most beautiful face in the world is that of a mother.

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Different games We grew up together since childhood You love to play Gradually you became younger Time is playing a game with my life You are playing with people's hearts That is the difference.

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Biography ----------Kamal Dhungana Tikapur Kailali Nepal Mobile no: 7990324139 I was born in India in 1994, but I am a citizen of Nepal, I have studied up to Inter second year I have been writing poems for 5/6 years now. Apart from poetry, I also write ghazals. My poems have been published in Vietnam, China, Serbia and Nepal.

Shortly, I am bringing a collection of poems to the market.

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