World Poetry Proudly Presents Dom Kafley from Bhutan & Australia!

Dom Kafley

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ariadne’s Notes: We would like to welcome our new World Poetry Member Dom Kafley to share his talents and poetry to our World Poetry family. His e-poem will be read on the World Poetry Cafe Radio Show in the future.

Dom Kafley was born in a very small south Asian country of Bhutan and was brought up in the ramshackle hut in the concentrated UN run refugee camp in Nepal where his family remained for 18 years until moving to Australia in the last quarter of 2008 as a humanitarian entrant. Some of his readers and well-wishers have remarked that the subjects of his poetry comes from his experience woven of the life he has come across; the deprivation, the poverty and his quest for society of harmony, justice, peace and truth apart from what he bleeds to evoke of love, romance and the burnings of the current world he sees from where he is located now.

Dom has a strong passion for literature and especially poetry. He started writing poems only two years ago and has been pursuing by heart to bring out the best of his stories in poetic lines. He is an avid reader, a travel bug by hobby and aspires to become a good poet in future.  A few of his poems have appeared in the poetry journals and websites in the US, UK, France, Nepal and India. Often contributing to ‘The Applicant’-A Kathmandu Based English Journal and The Bhutanese Literature, he is currently Pursuing Civil Engineering in a University in South Australia.

To A Tourist Friend In A Book Shop
And when you showed me those pictures
I saw the world that is held of the withering truth
I weighted the lightness of the sand foams with my reveries
I counted those consoling stars on the full moon night
And cursed a dead poet that but dwells inside me
Writing the poems weathered of hope and perseverance in faithlessness
In the deafening glazes of an oil-less lantern
Your stories, anecdotes and linings journeyed me into a dream
The journey you did not make would always take you the farthest in your dream.

Your memoirs of the glacier hills,
The naturally shiny sky crappers standing against the easterlies and westerlies
I touched them with an obeisance in your high rising portraits of letters and photos
Black and white
digitally washed
coloured and framed
In the frames of love
How far were these ice flakes from your high-tech camera?
How did you play games in your latest electronic gadget
In the frigid zones of the north?
How far up to the western world did you see
From the top of those third world mountains?

The flagstaff that you touched in the story is the tallest pole
I have ever seen in the world unless I see one myself someday

The bare feet people
As you say there sneezing in the mists of poverty
Are more than hospitable
Do they read Russel and Keller there?
I didn’t buy new pairs of shoes this winter
What do they take in there in this time of the year?

What is more than a regretful joy to a poet cursed of patriotism
Writing a travel poem of a land he has deserted long ago as a child?
What is more remorseful than seeing your village
Blazed with the ice of pity in some best sellers of foreigner’s cover page?

Dom Kafley  (C)

 

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3 Responses to World Poetry Proudly Presents Dom Kafley from Bhutan & Australia!

  1. Powerful images, Dom Kafley, that share your personal history and current views very clearly make memorable lines for any reader. Many poets in World Poetry family have poems of the sad injustices of our world, yet manage to support each other and sprinkle our days with some positive thoughts – for balance — for hope for a better future. Bernice

    • Ariadne says:

      Really appreciate you comments, Bernice.

    • Dom says:

      Thank you so much Bernice. Its such a great thing to hear from a very experienced and widely read poet like you and I am indebted to you for such wonderful words on my writing. Very encouraging and at the same time so much soothing words. Hoping to read from more poets here coming from around different corners of the world with their stories. I would like to thank World Poetry for such a humble place. Thank you Ariadne for helping me share my writing to other poets/friends through here.

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