Monday 2 July 2018

Dreams and Dreams

Prakashmani Dahal
Poet Prakashmani Dahal

It seems true that they say
Man is nothing but a field where
Dreams keep growing;
A giant of a single Bunyan
or a whole range of wheat sowing.

It is the dreams that plows the field
During they are sleeping,
Smooth, soft and fertilized;
And it is during the wake
They sow whatever seed
They have deeply passioned.

Of course all such dreams
Don't come true
As all crops don't grow well;
Unless they are seasonable and tended well
As Tenging and Hillary's climb
Or as that of Hitler and Stalin's gale.

Dreams of bunyans make symbols and beacons
Which are rare, fair that lift the ages;
The other, however ordinary,
Live and let live the masses and thus
Dreams former it encourages.

(Prakashmani Dahal is a poet and essayist. He writes both in Nepali and English.) 

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