Some Short Form Poems
D N Kafle Adelaide, Australai 1. Old old Matsuo Leaps into my drunken mind Asking for a ku 2. White snows on my head…
Dom Kafle
Published Works
Poetry
शहीद र म
डी एन काफ्ले एड्लेड अस्ट्रलिया उसले माटो पियो माटोमै रोप्यो जिन्दगी र निर्भय फुलायो जिन्दगी भित्रका हजार सपनाहरू अपार मुस्कानहरु म नाथु जिन्दगीको लालचमा…
नयाँ वर्ष
डी एन काफ्ले एड्लेड अस्ट्रलिया नयाँ वर्ष भोलि पनि एक अन्जुली आशाका किरणहरु बोकेर सूर्य एकाबिहानै डाँडै-डाँडा ओरालो झर्नेछ र गरिबको आँगनमा पुगेर खुइया-मार्ने…
Some Short Form Poems
D. N. Kafley Adelaide,SA 1. Half burnt autumn moon World’s only richest pauper Luring a pilgrim 2. Sleeping with the stars In the heart…
Immortal
The tiny clock that hangs on the dusty wall Rhapsodizes the never evoked lyrics in its calipers Seconds…minutes…hours…days…and in eons Loneliness bathes in the…
Legacy
Were I to forsake legacies but one It’d be the age old songs of my anc’stors The sombre fragrance of that holy home Where…
Global Warming
D N Kafle Adelaide, Australia The night spreads her curtains Her veils like An Indian bride and refuges The earth, As a gigantic vulture…
Mother’s Day-That Accounts Love
[I still fondly could recall last year's Mother's day. It dances before my eyes as a fresh pie. Taken aback in the coincidence, I…
If Blood Indeed Was Thicker Than Water
We trod on the sandy shores With our passion-smitten hearts To paint our reminiscences of dexterity. Our hearts were thick plumes of clouds In…
Quest
Art thou thy own art to deck this wide earth, From the fearful beast to the mildest lamb? Yeh! Thy deemed abode of celestial…
Whistles of Diaspora
Before the world so wide, fair and dear Lucent were words our hidden in fear. We here from, are touching the world in our…
I AM A MELANCHOLY NIGHT TRAVELLER
D N Kafle Australia I am a night traveller. An uncouth night traveller I am. A distressed traveller laden with the passé political aphorism.…
I am peeping you via breathing in your breath
D N Kafle/ Australia When in the gleaming moon I gaze so high When in my plaintive, in my placid couch I lie When…
Gazal and Other Verse Forms
गजल: ३०१
डी एन काफ्ले एड्लेड अस्ट्रलिया पिउँदा-पिउँदै जिन्दगीकै नसामा उ पर्यो भन्दिनु सिउँदै थियो जिन्दगीको चोला अन्तै सर्यो भन्दिनु खुशी चुम्न जिन्दगीको शीखर चड्छु भन्दैथ्यो…
गजल २५८
पिउँदा-पिउँदै जिन्दगीकै नशामा उ पर्यो भन्दिनु सिउँदै थियो जिन्दगीको चोला अन्तै सर्यो भन्दिनु खुशी चुम्न जिन्दगीको सिखर चड्छु भन्दैथ्यो उ चड्दा-चड्दै जिन्दगीकै खाल्डोमा उ पर्यो भन्दिनू बिहान्, दिउँसो बेलुका उ जिन्दगीलाई बाल्दै थियो समयको फड्केबाट उस्ले साँघु तर्यो भन्दिनू संघर्षको उपवनमा गुलाब, बेली र चमेली सार्दा-सार्दै फुलसरि एक् साँझ उ झर्यो भन्दिनू किन्यो वैंश, माटो किन्यो, किन्दै थियो जिन्दगी नै आयुको मोल् गर्नै नपाई झोला उसले भर्यो भन्दिनू बाँच्दा-बाँच्दै जिन्दगीकै नशामा उ पर्यो भन्दिनू साँच्दा-साँच्दै जिन्दगीकै दशामा उ पर्यो भन्दिनू...
गजल: २५५
डी एन काफ्ले एड्लेड अस्ट्रलिया सहिद छोराको लाशमाथि बुवा रो'को कथा छ याँ कफिनभित्र लाश आयो बिधुवा रो'को कथा छ याँ भ्यागुत्ताले छोडेपछि कुवा…
Essays, Reviews and Critical Prose
HEADWIND, Laxmi’s Story: In The Eyes Of A Little Reader-Dom
D. N. Kafley Adelaide, SA Headwind: Laxmi’s story:By Alice Anna Verheij. [The following is not a book review, but an appreciation note, thus avoids…
Burnings: A Review
D. N Kafle Adelaide Australia Name of the Chapbook: Burnings, Author: Ocean Vuong, America Publisher: The Sibling Rivalry Press, 2010 I bought Vuong’s book…
When as a child I saw this time sleep
D. N. Kafle Adelaide, Australia And when this winter Astray the stardust, the dry leaves Of orchids, madrono and rollinia It brings back to…