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Kathmandu Poems - Poems about Kathmandu


Kathmandu
I've never been to Kathmandu it's highly unlikely I'm ever going to and I don't consider macaques the least bit holy while some there choose so to do tho' they may be Nepalese aristocracy no they won't make a monkey of me such couldn't leave me any colder as it's all in the mind's eye of the beholder and who decides what is...

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Categories: kathmandu, animal, fun, humor, religion,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Displaced In Kathmandu
Our dinner, boiled to death root vegetables, we swallow in silence as night closes-in on the school. The co-opted Buddhist monastery housing us empties its porcelain thrones into the walled garden’s weedy rear yard. Village women wash: the floors, the pots, the laundry from first light to deep dark. The water runs downhill. War does...

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Categories: kathmandu, anxiety, fear, war, ,
Form: Haibun



Kathmandu
He had never seen the temple As he leaned against the blessed stone. He never saw the mountain Which took lives, and tried, and never forgave. His eyes never rose above your knees And he never saw your shoes As his body decayed faster than an avalanche. His mind vanising quicker than the warmth To be given from the descending coin or two Flicked...

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Categories: kathmandu, solitude, sympathy,
Form: Narrative
Kathmandu
Kathmandu a quaint, romantic name, had wanted to go there now it is a dream. Nepal, this small mountain country often used a golf ball between big countries for purely selfish reasons. Thousands of people killed and classical palaces are reduced dust covering mountain tops as a fog of sadness Cry my lovely I can only offer you friendship. But for...

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Categories: kathmandu, allegory, allusion, anger, anxiety,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Kathmandu, Nepal 2003
The sun drenchs and heat soaks the air. It throbbs with fumes. The drivers of the three wheeled, canvas covered taxi’s curse, beep, and press their way between motor cycles with garishly clad riders. Males in western-style helmets drive women, dressed in peacock-colored saris, down the main boulevards between the Mercedes of diplomats and the Range rovers of the wealthy Western usurpers. Upon the cracked...

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Categories: kathmandu, urban
Form: Narrative




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