One poem by Hem Raj Bastola

Carefree bird

Stretching,

White plumage fly

Getting high

Locate a trunk.

Staring and staring

Below the field is wide

Thick and so wild.

Filtering,

To food, every pace

Stooping, slowly

In the swamp

A pond Heron

In and out

It's beak.

Hem Raj Bastola is currently working as a freelance local tour guide in and around Pokhara Valley, Nepal.

He has worked as a Guest Service Agent at the Hotel Pokhara Grande, as a cave guide, inside the cave area for all tourists as well as office assistance in Guptshor Mahadev Cave, as a substitute representative for Sita Travels, as a freelance trekking guide for tourists to the surrounding Annapurna range and as a book salesman in Annapurna Stationary Center.

Hem also enjoys writing poetry, listening to music and collecting stamps.