नेपालका अन्तर्राष्ट्रिय ख्यातिप्राप्त कवि सन्तोष कुमार पोखरेल अहिले विश्व साहित्यमा एक बहुचर्चित नाम हो I उहाँका दर्जनौं कविताहरू संसारभरी कवि तथा अनुवादकहरूले स्वस्फूर्त रूपमा अनुवाद तथा प्रकाशित गरेको देख्न पाउँदा हामी नेपाली उत्साहित र गौरवान्वित हुनुपर्छ I  

पाँच भाषामा धाराप्रवाह बोल्न र लेख्न सक्ने पोखरेललाई विश्व साहित्यमा वहाँले गरेको योगदानको कदर गर्दै विश्वका दस देसले एकमतले विश्व स्वर्ण कवि Golden Writer of the World, 2022 बाट सम्मानित गारिसकेका छन् I यस्तै रसियाको आन्तोन चेखोव शरद २०२१ ले वहालाई विश्व कवि तथा अनुवादक (World Poet and Translator) र चीनको अन्तर्राष्ट्रिय अनुवाद तथा साहित्यिक संस्थाले अन्तर्राष्ट्रिय उत्कृष्ट कवि २०२२ (International Best Poet) को उपाधिले समनित गरेकोछ I दुई दर्जन भन्दा बढी अन्तर्राष्ट्रिय सम्मान तथा पुरष्कारहरूले सम्मानित कवि पोखरेल नेपालकै साहित्यिक इतिहासमा पहिलो साहित्यकार हुनुहुन्छ जसका रचनाहरू विश्वका ३३ भाषाहरूमा अनुवादित भइसकेका छन् I

आज हामी उनका रसिया-युक्रेन युद्धका विरुछ लेखिएका कविताहरू मध्ये जापानी भाषामा जापानीज युनिभर्सल पोएट्स एसोशिएशन Japan Universal Poets Association (JUNPA) को प्रतिष्टित साहित्यिक पत्रिका HAMI-ASHMI मा भख्खरै प्रकाशित तीन कविताहरू: युद्धबन्दी (The POW), माटो बन (Become Soil) र युद्ध (The War) र त्यसै पत्रिकामा प्रकाशित उहाँका बारेमा लेखिएका कुराहरू हाम्रा पाठक हरू समक्ष राख्दैछौं I अनुवादिका माकी स्टार फिल्ड हुन् I

ANTI-WAR POEMS                                              

THE POW

-Santosh Kumar Pokharel

I would have died

I am alive since I still breathe

And I am thin now

The food given by the enemy is not good

I have lost my appetite today

or more what could I say?

My wife came to my mind

The baby came even more

Who else would more I adore?

In war, I only heard

The sound of bombs and the people scream

And a dead silence would prevail

At that time, I remembered the village a little bit

See it comes again

When I have been made a war captive

I have been caught and brought

Now I feel I miss home

I miss my village, my town

All of a sudden, I stun

Today I remembered my little son.

I became so emotional

I shed some tears

for those who were far, and

for those who were nears

I finally did this emotion endure

I turned a human being for sure.

An enemy striking his boots appeared

I saw the compulsion on his face

He must have lost his race

There could no woo and no boo

I cried, he cried too.

March 25, 2022, Bhaktapur, Nepal

Pokharel.santosh@gmail.com

BECOME SOIL

-Santosh Kumar Pokharel

I was not looking for a country

I was taught that the country means soil

I put it in my hand and looked at it

There was no country

But particles of soil.

But the fragrance was definitely there,

wafting wide

Probably not every particle gave off

But some of the particles did this fragrance provide

As all were in one and none could them spoil

They are all clay particles

They are soil.

I looked again, it was a mere clay

There were no borders

There were but dust particles of different colors

Sticking together in a lump for life to start

Instead of living apart,

A lump of soil!

So, become soil, learn fragrance to impart

Make sure of your identity

You are soil.

March 12, 2022, Bhaktapur Nepal I © ® Pokharel.santosh@gmail.com

THE WAR

- Santosh Kumar Pokharel

I have heard that war is going on

Somewhere far away

I didn't know war would come so soon

Enraged with onset of a horrible typhoon

War is now visible in the sky

On land and sea

War wouldn't listen to any plea.

Wait, out there, listen to children's outcry

I will finish my poem later.

Come, listen to my poem!

People have reported children are missing

The mothers are beating breasts

I will recite my poem later.

Now listen, there is no one left

The field is empty

There is one and all- only war

And the war-siren blows

Again, and again.

March 5, 2022 Bhaktapur, Nepal

反戦詩集から

捕虜

詩人：サントシュ・クマール・ポカレル

私は死んでいたかもしれない

まだ息をしているので生きている

そして、今痩せている。

敵の食べ物はまずい

今日食欲を失った

とかなんとか言っているうちに

妻のことが頭に浮かびます

赤ん坊がさらに浮かんだ

他に誰をもっと愛せるだろう?

戦争で、ただ聞いた

爆弾の音と人々の悲鳴

そして死んだような静けさが支配する

その時、ちょっと村のことを思い出した

再びそれがやってくるのをみよう

戦争の捕虜になったとき

捕らえられ、連れてこられた

今、故郷が恋しいと感じる

私の村、私の町が懐かしい

突然、呆然とした

今日、幼い息子を思い出した

とても感情的になった

涙が出た

遠く離れた人たちのために、そして

近くにいる人のために

ついにこの感情に耐えることができた。

確実に男になった。

ブーツを叩く敵が現れた

彼の表情に強制されたものを見た

仲間を失ったに違いない

声も上げず、

私は泣いた、彼も泣いた

土になる

詩人：サントシュ・クマール・ポカレル

私は国を探し求めていたわけではない。

国とは土のことだと教わった

私はそれを手に取って見た。

そこには国はなく

土の粒子だけだった

でも、香りは確かにそこにあった

広く漂っていた

すべての粒子が放つわけではないのだろうが

いくつかの粒子は、この香りを与えた

すべての粒子が一塊になり、それらを駄目にしないように

それらはすべて土の粒子である

土である。

もう一度見たが、それは単なる土であった。

境界線はなく

さまざまな色の塵が

塊の中でくっつきあって生命が誕生する

バラバラに生きるのではなく

一塊の土なのだ

だから、土になり、香りを身につける。

あなたのアイデンティティを確かめよう

あなたは土だ。

戦争

詩人：サントシュ・クマール・ポカレル

戦争が起こっていると聞いた

どこか遠くで

こんなに早く戦争が起こるとは思わなかった。

恐ろしい台風がやってきて激怒している。

戦争は今、空に見える

陸にも海にも

戦争はどんな訴えも聞き入れない

待てよ、外で子供たちの叫びを聞くんだ

詩を後で完成させよう。

さあ、私の詩を聞いてくれ！

子供たちが行方不明になったと 人々が言っている

母親たちは乳房を叩いている

詩を後で朗読しよう。

さあ聞いてくれ、誰も残っていない

野原は空っぽだ

あるのはただ一つ、戦争だけ

そして戦士は爆破する

何度も

翻訳：マキ・スターフィールド

A short biography of Santosh Kumar Pokharel

A Multilingual World Poet and a globally acclaimed and rewarded multilingual writer, a translator and editor from Nepal. He has thousands of poems with stories and essays and six books. His poetry works have been translated into thirty-two languages, so far. The Poet has been awarded the title of The World Poet by Anton Chekhov Autumn 2020, Crimea, Russia and International 'World's Golden Poet' 2021, by Ukrainian Academy of Literature with ten countries, and the title of International Best Poet 2022, by International Poetry Translation and Research Center and the Journal of Rendition of International Poetry (Multilingual), China.

Poet Pokharel started writing poems at the age of thirteen. His poetry ranges from lyrical romantic to grave metaphysical and most of the themes are Love, Peace, Hunger, and Beauty. Many of his poems are dedicated to Women, Children, Poverty and War-stricken people that arouse compassion in our heart. He is a Peace Ambassador and has dedicated several Anti-War poems to the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war.

Poet of the global repute Santosh Kumar Pokharel is the chief of International Forum of Literature. International Forum of Literature runs its Facebook group and publishes world poetry anthology

माकी स्टारफिल्ड जापानकी हुन्। उनी एक कवि, अनुवादक र एक चित्रकार हुन् जसको जन्म एहिम भन्ने ठाउँमा १९७२ मा भएको थियो। उनले सोफिया विश्वविद्यालयबाट कलामा स्नातकोत्तर गरिन्, अन्तर्राष्ट्रिय व्यापार व्यवस्थापनको डिप्लोमा र क्यानडामा TESOL को प्रमाणपत्र प्राप्त गरिन् । उनी जापानमा इम्याजिन पोसियाकी प्रतिनिधि हुन्। जापान युनिभर्सल पोएट्स एसोसिएसनकी सदस्य तथा जापानी हाइकु एसोसिएट्स, कवि माकी स्टारफिल्डलाई गुइडो गोज्जानो पुरस्कार (माननीय उल्लेख) २०१८, २०१९, नाजी नामन साहित्यिक पुरस्कार (सिर्जनशीलता) २०२० र पुशकार्ट पुरस्कार नामांकन २०२० बाट सम्मानित गरिएको छ।