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Pokhrelian Stanzas
#pokhreliknots (Pattern 3-4-5-5-4-3)
by Santosh Kumar Pokharel
I live large
Larger than life
Know how to survive
Living, I have learned
All my egos burned
As I charge
Food and bed
Shed overhead
What more does one need
For what was I made?
Ponder these days
What led me?
Live life free
Life is a spree
Peace, as you call it,
Is dead, you agree?
I’m fine; all die
Leave me free
They pled peace
Nations turned deaf
Many are yours gone
Vain you why bemoan
My heart burns low
Still winds blow
Earth may heal
If hearts yet kneel
Green waits beneath dust
Hope is yet a must
Let love restore
Home once more
October 10, 2026. Bhaktapur, Nepal.
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[Pokhrelian Stanzas the #pokhreliknots invented by Nepal poet Santosh Kumar Pokharel is being practiced by poets across continents. You are encouraged to write in this style. It’s morphosemantically a new and well appreciated structure easy to compose your poems in]
