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Grandma's Fairytale

After a long spell of time

I am eagerly waiting for advent of fairytale

Children are also sleepless

Sitting surrounded before fireplace

With a great hope 

`We want to listen memorable fairytale from Grandma!' 

She was sitting in a mat of paddy straw 

Suddenly where she disappeared and till now?

These are not answers from faitytale

Grinding a bulk of corns

Threshing a heap of grains

Helpless Grandma

Crossed the horizon.

Grandma tells the story with burst of laughter-

"While taking midday meal

In the middle of paddyfield

Your Grandpa sneezed in ecstasy

Touching his own wrinkled cheeks with soiled hands

While felling to rest in the field

Twinkled pythonlike dream  

The dream of Grandpa

Appeared during few moment's sleep

Ran away to other hillocks".

My Grandma-

Always appear in my dreams

Like a bride returning after a long spell of time

From her mother's home

A can of curd and a sack of beaten rice in her hands

Sitting with comfort in portico

Says- "I have a fairytale

For the children sitting surrounded before fireplace."

Translated from Nepali by Poet