Poem : Thinley Alive With Caravan

~Krisu Chhetri~Krishu Chhetri_1

Freezing cold

Judgement falls like snow

From the eaves of roofs

Heart shivers with cold

Thinley becomes salt

And stands on the caravan of salt,

Thinley barters pain with salt,

Thinley looses himself

In the quest of a hero

Who’d change the fate of a nation,

Who’d bring rejuvenation.

A vulture ululates sitting on rooftop

Eagles sing of sensation over monasteries

On the snowy path

On the journey to snow

Thinley stands on the caravan of Yak

A yeti incarnate,

He barters old age with travellers,

Thinley gets lost

In his own search of a hero

Who’d rejuvenate the nation.

A dark sky

An illusion of hope

To meet and exchange love

With trees.

Thinley draws contours of pain

On his face

Dances all night

With death

On his son’s demise.

Though weak and thin

And aging before time,

He stands on the caravan of courage;

An industrious person,

Thinley shares happiness with neighbours

And looses himself

In the quest of a hero

Of regeneration

And hope for the nation.

He’s a travaller,

Happiness slashed by lightning

A widowed young daughter-in-law

Meets her paramour all night

In the hazy moonlight

Thinley looks ceaselessly

At the bright future of Dolpa

Dolpa’s future looks vacantly in silence

Perhaps Thinley has seen death closely

In the avalanche

In the painful death of his own yaks

Thinley lives on with the caravan

As Krishna reciting the Geeta of Karma

Wrestling with death

Thinley saves himself

In the quest of a hero

Who’d change the fate of a nation,

Who’d bring rejuvenation.

January 5, 2009

(Source : International All Nepali Writers Society)

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