On A Gloomy Day

Lok Subba

Poet Lok Subba

Gloomy feelings,

starry nights,

open sky,

still, it felt like shadowed by 

some hazy unknown cloud.

My sister sitting beside me

ecstatically describes the colours of the sky

as if glowing 

in the starry starry night

and she points out stars of her likes and names them

as if she has always known them

brilliant, jovial, lively and full of hope.

I sit there

trying to see all those stars

lucent, bright and illuminating, 

twinkling stars,

trying, as my sister sees them.

Alas, 

On a gloomy day

Through my eyes on a gloomy day,

all those bright lights of sun spots 

and bright spectres of starry starry visuals,

all get just hazy and grey,

On a gloomy day !

Lok Subba is a poet and translator. He writes in Nepali, English and Norwegian. The Assistant Professor at Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Dr. Subba currently lives in Bergen, Norway.