Khupen Sunwar’s Debut Poetry Anthology: Draping Silence in Landscape (Poem Review)
A Poetic Odyssey through Consciousness, Exile, and Human Longing
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May-29 , 2025 तारिख 12:36 बेलुका

Khupen Sunwar's a debuted poetry anthology "Draping Silence In Landscape" plunged into an exorbitant experiment to reverse indefinitely. He adheres to a rigorous lifestyle, including advancement of life, technocratic and experimental therapies through his crafted words in the anthology. While these efforts may yield advancements in well-being and longevity for humanity, achieving immortality is a pursuit fraught with philosophical and spiritual contradictions that decoded to be endeavors with the desire of bodily immortality persistent without transcending it. This poetry anthology combines four sections Collage, Montage, Landscape and Portrait. In each division of poems the poet profoundly creates such images in mind and strikes to get heart more heavily. There are 16 beautiful verses are included in Collage part which are based on poet's inner perception and self realization about life, death, karma , hope, compassion and love. Montage consist beautifully 20 poems of soulful rhythm, religious notion, romantic stories, nature's glorification and contemporary structure of the cityscape. Likewise, the feelings of expression of resistance, lamentations, draping momentum, perplexity of living, tendency of being rebellion and defamation issues are illustrated with 17 poems in Landscape part. Portrait is another part of the collection of 15 diverse poet's best verses and writing that are narrated from the perspectives of the poet after reading their poems and literary works. His words bites, makes heart rendered and keeps relief in pains by showering words to healing.   Phenomenon of death, spheres of living and momentary observation adds poetry and profundity to the symphony of life that the poet bestowed in his devours of crafting words. The poet does manifesting in his dialogue while travelling through various part of the world, while being annihilation, whatsoever he encountered with the situation that has been transferred into poetry. Through his verse he reveals the persuasive theme of the stark realities of being alien, and often delves into the turmoil, highlighting the loss, despair and melancholy of hardships and dearth of natural absurdity.

Silence is not the absence of voice, but the echo of things left unsaid in the heart's chamber.”

 His verses often evoked, become rebellious, as well as pleading for the fundamental development of his early childhood region where he learnt what to be in the quest of prosperity and happiness. Most of his poems are free verse, and each verse speaks about nature, bygone momentum, emotions, state of truth, philosophy of life, observation, worldly beauty, human tendency, rituals, stories of traveler and their values of existence in the current global village being home away to home in London.

His words are voice of migrated people, and their unexpressed feelings that they are living in other's nations to chase dreams of family.  In some poems, he narrates the lifestyle that he encountered while being alien from his homeland and sing songs of his unsung love, recalls mother's affinities, his house yards, and childhood memories in the forms of stanza. Khupen's poems strongly urged to be more devoted, realm and   content wherever you standstill and exist in any part of the universe.

Poems are the relics of exile - echoes of mother’s lullaby, the backyard’s smell, and the unsung psalms of longing that refuse to fade.

 The wordsmith surges from the lighting of metaphors that accentuate the emotions; in each line there is irony and satire of socio-political issues and his poems flow as current of words to bring revolution in the existed practices in his birth-state. His verses are more based on existentialism, philosophical, evocative and pleading to reform for crucial issues. Some of his poems are euphoric and utopian.  Few poems like 'I within Me,'

 'False Prophet,' Sleeping town', 'Melody', 'Ancient People' 'Nude Goddess', Willpower', 'Ignition of Fire', 'Draping Silence in Landscape', 'Lunatic', ' Unquenched Stone', 'The last Death' , 'Stinky' remarked absolutely brilliant crafting of words with vibrant meanings and insightful expression. His words are adorned with poetic wisdom and imagination. The poet becomes a prayer of nature and its essence to offer inspiration to continue his legacy of his ancestry rituals. Every poem astonishingly narrates the path of super-consciousness through its rebellious nature. Moreover, the poems are so poignant and contextual as per the sphere of humanity and mysticism.

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