Two Poems
In Search of Festivity Caring for JuneI play this tune of melancholya sparrow pecks rice from my plate this summer an invincible winterlies like a frozen heart we don’t meetthis…
In Search of Festivity Caring for JuneI play this tune of melancholya sparrow pecks rice from my plate this summer an invincible winterlies like a frozen heart we don’t meetthis…
यो जीवन खोलामा सब बगिरहेछन्,के होला पारि भनी खोजिरहेछन्।म त आफ्नै दुःखको भार बोकिरहेछु,खुशी के हो भनी भुलिरहेछु। घरीघरी उज्यालोको किरण देखिन्छ टाढा,तर नजिक पुग्दा…
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यो जीवन खोलामा सब बगिरहेछन्,के होला पारि भनी खोजिरहेछन्।म त आफ्नै दुःखको भार बोकिरहेछु,खुशी के हो भनी भुलिरहेछु। घरीघरी उज्यालोको किरण देखिन्छ…
गणेश खड्का कथाको गहिराइ पाठकको डुब्न सक्ने क्षमतामा हुन्छ कि लेखकको गहिराइतिर डोर्याउने शक्तिमा? अरू कथाको कुरा भए भन्न सकिन्थ्यो। तर यो…
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