The Flower

There is this flower in my lawn

it buds,
it blooms,
it is an attraction,
where the bee looms...
there is this flower in my lawn

there is this flower in my lawn

my day begins seeing it,
my day ends seeing it,
I continue living life
everyday repeating it...
there is this flower in my lawn

there is this flower in my lawn

it is there in the winter,
it is there in the summer
it is like a part of me now,
it will be there forever...
there is this flower in my lawn

there is this flower in my lawn

it sways with the wind,
it waves the passer-by,
nobody can avoid its beauty
they would rather see,
there is this flower in my lawn

there is this flower in my lawn

I fear somebody will steal it
I fear something will kill it
what would I do without the beauty?

 I try but I cannot feel it...

there is this flower in my lawn

there is this flower in my lawn

it is my reality,
it is my fantasy,
Sometimes I feel it to be delusion, 

sometimes I feel it to be actuality...... 

There is this flower in my lawn .

                                                                                                                                                                            Bibek Parajuli 11 July 2022

Ohh That Blue Bird !!

Ohh that blue bird 

She flies high in the sky 

Above and below the clouds 

On a sunny day,

Even in a rainy day,

Ohh that blue bird 

 

Ohh that blue bird 

She doesn’t know how much I admire her

She doesn’t know how much I care for her

She is unaware of this secret love 

Unaware of the impacts she have caused

Oh that blue bird..

Oh that blue bird,

That innocent soul flying alone

Flying with her family yet alone 

Riding the air current, high and low 

I don’t understand if she is going with the flow

Ohh that blue bird

Oh that blue bird 

What a beautiful colour she has 

A beautiful beak and a delightful chirping she has

A power to capture attention of all

Her sparkling eyes speaks of all 

Ohh that blue bird

Ohh that blue bird

I love watching her

Seeing her feed and seeing her fly

Waiting if she’ll ever come nearby

She gives me peace, she gives me hope 

All the beautiful feelings that she evokes 

Oh that blue bird

Oh that blue bird,

Resting high on the branches

Away from me, away from my reach

The sensation of her soft feathers 

I don’t know if I will get to feel ever 

Oh that beautiful bird ….. 

Oh that blue bird 

What if I could express?

 What if I could express?

What if I could express how I feel,

The anger and rage inside me,

The restrains that’s within me,

The expression cage inside me..

The way I see the world

The way I believe the world 

The good in me 

The bad in me 

I don’t believe if anybody would understand now,

What if I could express?

What if I could express?

What if I could express the love

My caring and compassionate heart

For those who are left behind

For those who fall behind

Poor souls who need a hand

Poor souls being swallowed by the quicksand

Helpless creatures in the wild 

All old, youth and child 

What if I could express?

What if I could express love?

What if I could express my loss?

Of all my dear ones, 

Those who were far and also the near ones,

Those who were close to my soul

Those who received my care

those whom I loved by heart 

Those who I couldn’t think apart

What if I could express love?

Every now and then 

I get this feeling of lost

The expression part of me have been tossed

Tossed somewhere that I’m having hard time to find 

Making myself the expression blind

I want to express and I want to learn 

I cannot see myself being burnt 

The simplicity of expression 

The plasticity of expression 

I want to regain it 

In the long run in life sustain it, 

I miss to express 

I’m having hard time to process,

What if I could express

What if I could express it all? 

Do hashtag trends really work?

To understand hashtag trends, let's understand hashtags first. Hashtag is usually introduced by the number sign or a hash symbol (#), is a type of metadata used in social media platforms like facebook, instagram, twitter and other media services. It is a user generated tagging that helps to find messages with specific theme or content easily. Its the users who creates and use hashtag by placing a hash symbol in front of a word or a phrase which is written without a space.Same hashtag is used by someone else to share views on the topic. There have been a practice of using hashtags to bring people for discussion under same topic, issue and get it in attention of the people to whom it is targeted for. 

Hashtag trends have recently picked up in Nepal too. With more people locked up in home and cannot move freely outside due to ongoing pandemic, social media platforms have been the main show ground for protests, raising concerns and voices. Whether to support someone, to speak agains someone or to ask for justice, hashtags are widely used these days. 

Understanding whether the hashtag works or not can be a topic of debate but it certainly puts a pressure on the government or the targeted body to take action. With the world shifting to online, it cannot be ignored that there are people on the internet who care about what happens around them. For a situation like we are facing these days because of COVID, it should be taken more seriously as hashtags are the most safest and convenient way of raising voice and concerns.  

For a developing country like nepal, hashtags trends seem to be less significant but it should be the government willing understand the seriousness and to embrace the changing society. Hashtags have made easier for people living abroad to support on the cause happening in their home country. people being more busy with work and life, no one should be forced to come to street to raise concerns.  It should be heard before matters get serious. Demonstration on streets may be comparatively powerful but hashtag trends shows people care and raise voices without being on streets. They care about the things that are affecting the society. These trends may not cause a lot of damage to attract attention, but it is the concerned authority that need to remain alert. 

Personality and Social media

Like our fingerprints, our personality is also unique. Though one can argue that we can deduce someone’s personality by observing behaviour which can be true to some extent. However, there hasn’t been any technology developed or any research been done to understand a human as a whole. Since we can fake behaviour, even unknowingly, an in-depth personality cannot be deduced by observing behaviour pattern. There are much more things going inside a human brain which are significantly important and are difficult to be mapped.

 

Social media and internet are elements of revolution of this century. The access to information and the connection we have been able to achieve are astonishing. With this revolution, we have dragged some negative behaviours along with it and these behaviours are certain to be a social media culture of future if no actions are taken today. We see these actions of sharing news, views and ideas as a granted elements on internet but it’s clear that we are not able to understand the seriousness of these actions.

 

How can sharing news and views be bad? If you see as a whole, well it’s a good action and maybe finding a bad consequence is not that easy. However, if we look deep into it, this small act can be a bad culture for future. An example can be, A person shares a post about a dog getting beaten by a person, badly injuring the dog and with a caption stating “humans are cruel. Let’s fight for cruelty “.  It is a good message that is being passed on but wait, has the action of person sharing the post have changed? No. The person sharing the post throws water on dogs on the middle of night for barking in front of his home in the middle of winter. The same person throws away his leftover when the dog outside roams the community to find food for its puppies. The man doesn’t care if the stray dog population in his community is increasing and actually he hasn’t ever thought about dogs this much, but he is not heisting to share human cruelty on the poor animal. Well the post is heartbreaking, which is understandable but are you changing the attitude of yourself towards these things. It is not just about animal cruelty, there are a lot of things where we show our soft part but, have we realised that the social media culture may be making us a hypocrite?

 

 

So, where does this personality things come into play? It is right there every time. We are sensitive to lot of things that happen around. In fact, if you scroll thought your Facebook newsfeed all day you will find thousands of things you get embarrassed about and thousands of things that you will be happy about. It depends on your sensitive personality that you might even share a few things in your timeline. This is what needs to be focused on. There are people who give opinions and just aren’t the part of your life and there are people who are genuine in giving constructive feedback on your action. Whatsoever you are the person who make primary decision for yourself. This article can raise a question within you but its again up to you to decide what the best for you is. Writing posts, sharing ideas are not bad, but the significance content matters. It is equally important to ensure that the quality of the things you share aligns with your values.

 

It is us who make things worse and its us who make things better as well. News, views and ideas are to be shared if they are worth sharing but sharing is not enough. Sharing something doesn’t just mean you have done your part, its you who too needs to take some action on your level. It’s you, your personality that needs to show changes and that can be in your own way. Fake personality will not work all the time and definitely you will be in a loss in the long run.

पाउँदिन

 खुसी आउँथ्यो होला साथमा, म ल्याउन पाउँदिन

यस्पाली पनि सुख्खा दशैँ , म आउन पाउँदिन

हर्षो उल्लास गाउँ घरमा, साथी भाई जम्मा होलान् 

हेर्ने ईच्छा भएपनि, म च्याउन पाउँदिन 

हालियो होला लिंग पिंग, सबैले झड्कार्दाहुन् मच्चाएर

हरेक साल हाल्ने पिंगको काम्रो, म ख्याउन पाउँदिन

उ हो मेरो साथी

हाँस्ने बेला सँगै हाँस्ने, दुखको बेला दुख बाँढ्ने

मनको कुरा फ्याट्ट बुझ्ने, उ हो मेरो साथी 

केही दिन पछिको भेट हुँदा होस्, भेट्न जाँदा थोरै लेट हुँदा होस्

खिस्स हाँसेर दाँत देखाउने, उ हो मेरो साथी

संकटमा पर्दा सल्लाह दिने, चुप लाग भन्दा हल्ला गर्दिने 

उत्पट्यान्ग काममा माहिर जो, उ हो मेरो साथी

खल्ती रित्तिदाँ सापटी दिने, सापटी देको चाहीँ फिर्ता नदिने

अच्चम्मको बैंक हो जो, उ हो मेरो साथी

आफ्नी रानी सँग घुम्न जाने, रेस्टुरेन्टमा के के हो के के खाने

केही ऩाखाई सुत्छु म आज  भन्ने,, उ हो मेरो साथी

केटी सँग देखे गिज्याउने, सिंगल भइस भन्दै खिज्याउनेॉं

सयौं साथीको लभ गुरु, उ हो मेरो साथी

प्राय काम सँगै गर्ने, कुरा भावना आदानप्रदान गर्ने

मिठ्ठो सम्बन्ध जो सँग छ मेरो, उ हो मेरो साथी