Imagining a New World through Love by Sushant Thapa

My longings are real

Though my imagination

Worships your arrival.

“Everything you can imagine is real,” says

Picasso.

I let the voices of inner calling

Not drown,

But reach for the gold below the sea.

Who says you cannot devise unimagined ideas

In poetry?

The ideas that are not real

Like holy grain and golden submarine of love.

Holy grain could be the barley that you use

To worship.

Let me add more symbolic clothing to this poem,

So that it does not sound like a report.

My love is a kite,

It is pulled by your strings.

My imagination has a soul,

A deep wooden god lives within it,

It is the large tree that pushes away

My day to day worldly limitations,

With its shades. 

My home is an ancient submarine

You and I, we could go deep to the new world.

Life is like letters

The distances between lovers

Still don’t count much.

The togetherness also does not matter

If you wish for a distance,

Love is a distant dream

That is intense,

It is felt close.

In intensity one is born

Time and again in love

It is real

In the moment,

Justification is a void,

In love.

Bio: Sushant Thapa is a Nepalese poet and fiction writer from Biratnagar-13, Nepal, with ten books of poems to his credit and two books of short stories. The books of poems are: The Poetic Burden and Other Poems (Authorspress, New Delhi, 2020), Abstraction and Other Poems (impspired, UK, 2021), Minutes of Merit (Haoajan Publishers, Kolkata, 2021), Love's Cradle (World Inkers Printing and Publishing, New York, New York, Dakar, Senegal, 2023), Spontaneity: A New Name of Rhyme (Ambar Publication House, New Delhi, 2023), Chorus of Simplicity and Other New Poems (Ukiyoto Publishing, Philippines, India, USA, 2024), Finding My Soul in Kathmandu (Ukiyoto Publishing, Philippines, India, USA, 2024),  My Grandfather Had Been a Cowboy (Ukiyoto Publishing, Philippines, India, USA, 2025), The Walking Rebel (Transcendent Zero Press, Houston, Texas, USA, 2025) and When I Desire and Other Poems (Ukiyoto Publishing, Philippines, India, USA, 2026).

His first collection of flash fiction and short stories is titled "The One Rupee Taker and Other Stories from Nepal" published by Ukiyoto Publishing in 2024. His second collection of short stories is titled "The White Dot and Other Stories" published by Transcendent Zero Press based in Houston, Texas, USA in 2026. 

Thapa holds an M.A. in English from Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, India. Curriculum Development Center has approved a poem by Sushant Thapa titled "Festivities" to be taught in Grade 6 in Nepal. It is included in the book Paragon English.