{"id":7852,"date":"2022-10-17T21:51:56","date_gmt":"2022-10-17T21:51:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/?p=7852"},"modified":"2022-10-17T21:51:56","modified_gmt":"2022-10-17T21:51:56","slug":"a-dead-cell-phone-a-poem-by-bhuwan-thapaliya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/a-dead-cell-phone-a-poem-by-bhuwan-thapaliya\/","title":{"rendered":"A dead cell phone. A Poem by Bhuwan Thapaliya"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Her late grandfather came with a hobbling gait\r\n\r\nin her dream last night. They were in a tented camp \r\n\r\non the river bank, nearby their abandoned farmhouse.\r\n\r\nHe poured a large peg of Khukri Rum, drank it\r\n\r\nwith a sly smile and sat down beside her\r\n\r\n on a wobbly camp cot, lit a  cigarette, \r\n\r\nnostalgic smoke curled into the night. \r\n\r\nHe took a sip again and through a ragged crack\r\n\r\nglimpsed outside and beamed at a  star worm crawling\r\n\r\namong the fallen leaves, and thereafter listened for hours and hours,\r\n\r\nthe melody of those olden times. Its lyrics now hidden, buried,\r\n\r\nawaiting discovery as a child with several siblings,\r\n\r\nall forgotten, overlooked, lost.\r\n\r\nThe sky roared and the wind blew hard.\r\n\r\n\u201cI think I have to go now,\u201d he whispered in her ear.\r\n\r\n\u201cSo where do you go from here, grand pa,\u201d she asked.\r\n\r\n\u201cI will continue to travel \r\n\r\nbut now it is all about reverse travel.\r\n\r\nI will move to a place where I\u2019d been before\r\n\r\nand stay maybe a week, a month , a year, \r\n\r\nand completely alter the way I see the future.\r\n\r\nI see my father. I see my mother.\r\n\r\nI see your grandmother.  I see you,\u201d\r\n\r\nhe answered her with a somber smile\r\n\r\nand requested her to stay connected with her past.\r\n\r\nShe nodded her head and said I will grandpa.\r\n\r\nNext morning, she woke up late \r\n\r\nto a dead cell phone\r\n\r\nbeside her bed in a wooden rack.\r\n\r\nNo charger in sight.<\/pre>\n
 
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Nepalese poet, Bhuwan Thapaliya works as an economist, and is the author of four poetry collections and currently he is working on his fresh poetry collection, The Marching Millions. Thapaliya\u2019s books include, Safa Tempo: Poems New and Selected<\/em> (Nirala Publication, New Delhi), Our Nepal, Our Pride <\/em>, Verses from the Himalayas and Rhythm of the Heart.<\/em> (Cyberwit.net)Poetry by Thapaliya has been included in The New Pleiades Anthology of Poetry, The Strand Book of International Poets 2010, and Tonight: An Anthology of World Love Poetry, as well as in literary journals such as Urhalpool, MahMag, Kritya, FOLLY, The Vallance Review, Nuvein Magazine, Foundling Review, Poetry Life and Times, Poets Against the War, Voices in Wartime, Taj Mahal Review, VOICES (Education Project), Longfellow Literary Project, Countercurrents etc.  Author: Safa Tempo: Poems New & Selected<\/strong><\/a> & Our Nepal, Our Pride<\/strong> <\/a>
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Her late grandfather came with a hobbling gait in her dream last night. They were in a tented camp on the river bank, nearby their abandoned farmhouse. He poured a large peg of Khukri Rum, drank it with a sly smile and sat down beside her on a wobbly camp cot, lit a cigarette, nostalgic … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,808,796,366,401,43],"tags":[18,136,3],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7852"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7852"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7860,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7852\/revisions\/7860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}