Meditation by Bhuwan Thapaliya

As we
locked
our lips
on the
slippery steps
beneath
the shrine
of goddess
Guhyeshwari,
I saw
the mother
of dawn
in her eyes
and in her lips
were democracy
and peace.

Bhuwan Thapaliyaworks as an economist, and is the author of four poetry collections. Thapaliya’s books include the recently released Safa Tempo: Poems New and Selected (Nirala Publication, New Delhi), and Our Nepal, Our Pride (Cyberwit.net). Poetry by Thapaliya has been included in The New Pleiades Anthology of Poetry and Tonight: An Anthology of World Love Poetry, as well as inliterary 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, and more.