keshab Sigdel
KATHMANDU | NEPAL
à propos
KESHAB SIGDEL (1979) est un poète, éditeur, universitaire et militant des droits népalais. Il est l’auteur des recueils de poèmes Samaya Bighatan (2007), Six Strings (co-écrit, NWEN 2012), Colour of the Sun (Poesis, 2017) et Embargo (traduction française par Alexandra Crette ; 2025). Il a édité Madness : An Anthology of World Poetry (RedPanda Books, 2023) mettant en vedette 297 poètes de 101 pays/territoires. Il a également édité un volume de poésie népalaise, An Anthology of Contemporary Nepali Poetry (Big Bridge, 2016). Son travail de traduction, Shades of Colour (Nepal Academy, 2021), est un recueil de poésie népalaise indigène. Outre la poésie, il écrit également de la fiction, des essais littéraires et des pièces de théâtre. Il a précédemment édité Poetry Planetariat, et co-édité Of Nepalese Clay, revue littéraire de la Society of Nepali Writers en anglais et Rupantaran, une revue de traduction publiée par Nepal Academy. Il est maintenant l’éditeur d’une entreprise littéraire, Freak Street : A Poetry Asylum. Sigdel enseigne la poésie, les théories et la critique littéraires à l’université Tribhuvan de Katmandou.
about
KESHAB SIGDEL (1979) is a Nepali poet, editor, academic and rights activist. He is the author of poetry collections Samaya Bighatan (2007), Six Strings (co-authored, NWEN 2012), Colour of the Sun (Poesis, 2017) and Embargo (French translation by Alexandra Crette; 2025). He has edited Madness: An Anthology of World Poetry (RedPanda Books, 2023) featuring 297 poets from 101 countries/territories. He also edited a volume of Nepali poetry, An Anthology of Contemporary Nepali Poetry (Big Bridge, 2016). His work of translation, Shades of Colour (Nepal Academy, 2021), is a collection of indigenous Nepali poetry. Besides poetry, he also writes fiction, literary essays and plays. He previously edited Poetry Planetariat, and co-edited Of Nepalese Clay, literary journal of the Society of Nepali Writers in English and Rupantaran, a journal of translation published by Nepal Academy. He is now the Editor of a literary venture, Freak Street: A Poetry Asylum. Sigdel teaches Poetry and Literary Theories and Criticism at Tribhuvan University in Kathmandu.
नदी
हिमालमा सभ्यताको नक्सा बनाउँछ
नदी
बहावका तरंगले
नागबेली खन्छ
र, भत्काउँदै पहाडका कन्दराहरु
तराईका फाँटहरुसम्म पुग्छ।
आफूले बनाएको सभ्यता
र त्यसमा पोतिएको जीवन हेर्न
नदी
अझ होचो र गहिरो समुन्द्रमा मिसिइन्छ
र हिमालतिर फर्किएर खिच्छ उचाइको तस्विर।
आफूमात्र बग्दैन नदी,
त्यससंगै बग्छन् मानिसका सपनाहरु—
कहिँ ति फोका भएर हराउँछन्
कहिले विथोलिएर बाढी ल्याउँछन्, र
कतै फूल्छन् रङ्ग बनेर जीवनको ।
पानीको अविरल यात्रा हो नदी
तर त्यसमा गुजुल्टिएर बगिरहेका मान्छेका सपनाहरु
झर्छन् भन्ने केही छैन समुन्द्रको गहिराई
ति सपनाहरुलाई आकाशमा उडाउन
घामसँगको सहवास बढाउँछ
र बादल दौडाउँछ आकाशमा नदी।
गहिराई तिर झरिरहेको मात्र देखिए पनि
अग्लिंदै गएको सभ्यताको सर्जक हो नदी।
जीवनको चित्र बनाउने कूचीजस्तो
पृथ्वीलाई क्यानभासa बनाएर दौडिरहन्छ नदी,
हिमालको उचाइ र समुन्द्रको गहिराइबीच सेतु भएर
सिगैं जीवन बगिरहेको हुन्छ नदी।
The river sketches the map of civilization
in the mountains.
With ripples of its current
it carves meanders,
and, breaking through the caverns of hills,
reaches the plain-lands.
To behold the civilization it has shaped,
and, the life smeared upon it,
the river
merges into a sea deeper, lower still,
then turns toward the mountains, drawing a portrait of height.
The river does not flow alone;
along with it drift human dreams—
at times they burst like bubbles and vanish,
at times they surge, unsettled, into floods,
and elsewhere they bloom into color, into life.
The river is water’s perpetual journey,
yet the tangled dreams coursing within it
are not destined simply to sink
into the sea’s depth;
to lift those dreams into the sky,
it deepens its companionship with the sun
and drives clouds across the heavens.
Though it seems only to descend into depth,
the river is the maker of a civilization rising higher.
Like a brush that paints the image of life,
the river runs on, the earth its canvas—
a bridge between the height of mountains
and the depth of the sea,
the river carries the whole of life in its flow.
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