Santosh Kumar Pokharel is globally acclaimed writer and a multilingual Poet, Editor, and Translator from Nepal. He writes in four different international languages and has written thousands of poems in Nepali, English, Hindi, and Russian. His poems have been translated into twenty-seven languages of the world so far. Poet Pokharel, a senior civil engineer by profession, completed his master’s in engineering from Russian Friendship University Moscow. His poetic journey started at the age of 13
Pokharel’s poems range from romantic lyrical to metaphysical, satirical to tragic and philosophical. Most of his poems have been found written on Love, Beauty, Nature and Human Compassion and Livelihood. He focusses on women, children, peace, and poverty. Winner of several international recognitions the poet has been found contributing to the global friendship among the poets
Writer of five books and the founder of International Forum of Literature Group, Poet Pokharel is laureate of some highly prestigious international awards as Mahatma Gandhi International Award for Creative Writing 2018, Nikolai Gogol International Award “The World of the Borderlands” for his contribution to peace through literature from Ukraine for 2021. Laureate of 1st class Anton Chekhov International Award for Landscape lyrics from Yalta, Crimea 2020 and Poet polyglot Award 2021 from Sevastopol, Crimea. He was conferred upon Ambassador for Peace Award from Universal Peace Federation, 2020
For his contributions to Friendship between peoples and special achievement in international activities, has been conferred upon International Commonwealth of People’s Diplomacy Special Award from Kazakhstan, 2021
Very recently Poet Santosh Kumar Pokharel has been awarded a high recognition of The World Poet and Translator by Anton Chekhov’s Autumn 2020, Crimea, Russia
Very recently more than dozen of poems of poet Pokharel have been translated into Chinese and published in papers and anthology and been awarded recognitions
Elder son of Ambika Prasad Pokharel and Ms. Sharada Devi, poet Pokharel has two daughters Saru Pokharel and Shruti Pokharel
We are happy to publish his poems and his short biography to let our readers know about this poet polyglot of world repute
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The Sad Sky
My blue sky turned black today
Won’t let rays their way
I am left in dark here
He won’t any attention pay
Tell me how shall this way I stay
I sit here calm
As my sky is sad today
He won’t blink to me any more
I don’t feel peace in heart’s core
My sky is shy and silent
He doesn’t respond to me as of yore
Today I lack peace in my heart
That came from his heavenly stores
My earnest plea is being replied
With showers from his eye-pores
Clouds! you shall fly away
And give my sky way
He should look onto me
And I too should him see
If he cries let it be
It should be welcome rather
We all shall at times gather
And give our tears a try
Me and my sky
A Poet Is Half Light
Let the poet be a poet, let him be a light
Light knows only to radiate the world
With luster; equanimous without bias
What does he want to borrow
He is equanimous in both
The happiness and sorrow
Let the poet be light in the darkness
Let letters of the poem be read
I don’t know what to read in that light
Light is just a light self-made
You can read whatever you want
He is mute and irrational; receives you
Whoever you may be, it’s no issue
The poet can’t write that to you
Whatever you may want
The poet does not understand you
Your rebukes and reprimand
Because you are far away
The backstage is your abode, twirled
And the poet is the breath of the world
He can be seen near your house and in the streets
Maybe he is your hope and eyesight
But he cannot be either irrational betwixt
So, a poet is only half of the light
May 25, 2021 Bhaktapur Nepal
