Soft Storm
Abhi Subedi's free verse poem "Soft Strom" beautifully combines societal and nature depictions. In a deeper sense, it portrays people's feelings of indifference toward the miserable conditions and suffering of the people, male practices, turbulent atmosphere, and chaos in Nepalese society. On the surface, it shows the speaker's journey through the small streets and lights of Kathmandu at night. In the first verse, the poet utilizes words like turbulence, spooky, and so on to convey an environmental disorder in Nepalese society before switching to a more positive state with the line "sky bloomed like crocuses," which alludes to Irish floral family plants blossoming over stones. Five inches is the maximum height of these plants. When the moon is about to set, he speaks on posters about various social events, politics, and other topics. It describes a gathering of people talking about social events while they are in front of one another. From his rooftops, ...