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Genre: Transcreate Poetry

Updated: Jun 20

"A Portrait of a Degree Boy"
 
Translated from डिग्री माइला,

Nepal


Whether it's in
 
a roadmap of a world
 

 
or in a drop
 
or a lazy writer
 
whose incomplete sentence
 
by crossing
 
a mark of identity
 

 
or it's just like
 
a seed of cucumber
 
when viewed through
 
a glass slab
 

 
or a moth chewing
 
a tobacco leaf
 

 
The things like numerous controversy
 
famine & drought
 
floods and landslide
 
are the elements
 
that destroy
 
the perfume of identity
 

 
But
 
the people mandate
 
of our country says that
 
'our country is
 
the most beautiful
 
country in the world'
 

 
whereof
 
the people
 
of this land are
 
shy of getting
 
and expressing love
 

 
They are afraid
 
of living freely
 
rather than living in
 
a disgrace of
 
disguise stupidity
 

 
They think
 
it's better to die
 
rather than living
 

 
This country
 
has been left out by
 
Buddha and buddhe
 

 
This country has been sacrificed
 
by Sita and Bhrikuti
 

 
But the soul
 
of the martyrs
 
are roaming
 
and foaming
 
in their lost path
 

 
And the govt.
 
itself is carrying
 
vistas and visa
 
of Dv (Diversity Immigrant)
 

 
In this beautiful country
 
A degree boy
 
named
 
Dilliram Bhujel
 
is born in a
 
proactive manner of
 
coincidence.
 

 
Just like
 
A Mt. Everest
 
Urf
 
A Sagarmatha was born
 
after the first
 
great depression of
 
cretaceous
 

 
Highest mountain peak is called
 
Mt. Everest
 

 
But
 
in a depression of its axis
 
it carries a load of
 
thousands foot
 
in its private head
 

 
Then what is the value
 
of its elevation
 

 
A degree boy
 
is burning
 
and shadowed from inside
 

 
Like a snake is shadowed
 
by a rustic eagle
 

 
Than what is
 
the meaning of
 
his conscience
 

 
In this acre land
 
of exasperation
 
a jewel has become a stone
 
and
 
a man has become
 
a seeming degree boy.
 

 
Translator: तिवारी बिपिन 

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Sikkim, India

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