The patio is open to the sky.
A tangerine coloured sun singing
The wakeful anthem,
The lulling buzz of
The mother’s song.
Motes of emotions
Resurfacing with
The breeze of time.
The mother’s song
Performed by the happiest lady
Of the world for her home
Ticks and rhymes with the background
Of an old Grandfather clock.
The song speaks of heard future affections
Which is shareable among her children.
Butterflies rise close
To the feathered approach
To perform an unplanned
Choir of life,
The rising reflection—close to wonder.
The air of spices
In the open patio,
Hullabaloo of children’s play.
Every far crier must know that
Voice is the genesis of performance.
The children play with voiced joy.
The sunflower is also a performer
Outside the wooded window
When it faces the sun.
The window also performs to see
Along with me.

Sushant Thapa is from Biratnagar, Nepal. He has published four books of poems: The Poetic Burden and Other Poems (Authorspress, New Delhi, 2020), Abstraction and Other Poems (Impspired, UK, 2021), Minutes of Merit (Haoajan, Kolkata, 2021), Love’s Cradle (World Inkers Printing and Publishing, USA and Africa, 2023). He is an English lecturer to undergraduate level students of BBA and BIT at Nepal Business College, Biratnagar, Nepal. He holds an M.A. in English literature from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. He has been published in print, online, school book and anthologies around the world. He also writes Flash Fictions, Short Stories and Book Reviews. 

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