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Bhuwan Thapaliya is a poet from Kathmandu, Nepal. He is the author of five poetry collections, including Safa Tempo: Poems New and Selected (Nirala Publications, New Delhi) and Slipping into Another World (Ukiyoto Publishing). His work has received international recognition, appearing in esteemed literary journals and global anthologies. His poetry has been featured in Life in Quarantine: Witnessing Global Pandemic Initiative – a project supported by the Poetic Media Lab and the Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis at Stanford University– as well as in the International Human Rights Art Festival and Poetry and Covid, an initiative funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council in collaboration with the University of Plymouth and Nottingham Trent University. He has read his work and participated in literary seminars across South Korea, India, the United States, Thailand, Cambodia, and Nepal.

Silver songs

Bhuwan Thapaliya

The trails are tricky and frail,
winding like whispered mantras
through the stillness of the hills,
with the Annapurna peaks
looming like ancient sentinels                     in the distance.

Trees drip with moss,
their limbs bowed by time,
and at night—
a sky full of stars,
spilling silver songs
into the earth’s quiet bowl.

A song of peace

They sang
the song of liberty
with the ravenous whirlwind.
But I sang
with the gentle mountain breeze—
a song of
universal peace.

— Bhuwan Thapaliya

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