Tag Archives: Maya Watson

Translated Poem : When I see You

~Bhim Darshan Rokka~ Translation : Maya Watson I always sing your song always come to you but you, approaching from afar upon get closer recognizing me become rippling animated

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Translated Poem : An Age has Passed

~Bhim Darshan Rokka~ Translation : Maya Watson An age has passed since leaving home journeying, a traveller alone I am walking, my friend! Walking away from the beginning, toward an end unknown.

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Translated Poem : My Voice

~Bhim Darshan Rokka~ Translation : Maya Watson The single uproar of many people is advancing listen carefully in it is my voice as well perhaps it will first touch you then touching all people grow larger, larger

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Translated Poem : Fog

~Bhim Darshan Rokka~ Translation : Maya Watson Above the far hills heavier then they yet lighter than caresses the column of fog slowly slowly climbs the precipices

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Translated Poem : To the Star of the Indigo Night

~Bhim Darshan Rokka~ Translation : Maya Watson To this star of the indigo night I am looking for solace I pray my love as well-far from home is looking to this star of the indigo night

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Translated Poem : Had it not been spring

~Bhim Darshan Rokka~ Translation : Maya Watson Had it not been spring, had you not been singing that song, had you not so shyly blushed, the rhododendrons wouldn’t seem so red.

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Translated Poem : The Ditch

~Bhim Darshan Rokka~ Translation : Maya Watson Marching marching; a backward glance good Lord ! there ! A Gapping Ditch! disbelief-how it came there how I crossed it marching marching; a backward glance

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Translated Poem : Time is coming

~Bhim Darshan Rokka~ Translation : Maya Watson From every hand, from lands both hospitable and hard, from jungle, slope, and stone, and from gentle sighs it comes Time continually comes.

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Translated Poem : Lake Phewa

~Bhim Darshan Rokka~ Translation : Maya Watson At the verge of the forest waiting, dreaming of me veiling her face with her shivering sari reclining on the shadows of the trees. Here the white boats of cloud make crossing,

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Translated Poem : Who Comes to Snatch my Song?

~Bhim Darshan Rokka~ Translation : Maya Watson Who comes to snatch my song, Companion on this lonely trip! I have already crossed the finish, who comes to snatch my triumph! who comes to snatch my song, companion on this lonely … Continue reading

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Translated Poem : Alone Alone Aloof and Sad

~Bhim Darshan Rokka~ Translation : Maya Watson Alone alone aloof and sad, I am the sky in which the sun has set, but the stars have not yet risen wherever yesterday she may have staid that abandoned place, I am

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Translated Poem : Your Nearness

~Bhim Darshan Rokka~ Translation : Maya Watson However close, close to you I come that much more far, far I feel what kind of journey is this? more distant even that death miles from intimacy where life begins

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Translated Poem : I’ve Come by Many Roads

~Bhim Darshan Rokka~ Translation : Maya Watson I’ve come by many roads singing many songs standing, a mountain and arriving here, as the river course

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Translated Poem : Border of your Thought

~Bhim Darshan Rokka~ Translation : Maya Watson Circumference of the Earth, border of your thought rising, silent growing thin thinner than gesture lighter than sweet summons silk brushed over silk touching me shapes of sky.

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Translated Poem : The Mountain’s Call

~Bhim Darshan Rokka~ Translation : Maya Watson Love,lets go there where the view of the Himalaya is clear where its borderlands begin to where it comes searching

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Translated Poem : Four Pieces

~Bhim Darshan Rokka~ Translation : Maya Watson 1. The sky of stars distant hope calls and I catch the fragrance of the yet unblossomed bud.

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Translated Poem : At the Temple

~Bhim Darshan Rokka~ Translation : Maya Watson Boudhist temple balanced, solid unparallel creation within the temple, temples within temple slayers upon layers of stone resonating ring of bronze seamless surfaces of brick determined to stand eternal

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Translated Poem : Night ! Day!

~Bhim Darshan Rokka~ Translation : Maya Watson The crush of passengers covers everything. I can’t see out. Where are we? To what are we close? Where having I been brought? This place looks familiar,

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Translated Poem : You are not Alone

~Bhim Darshan Rokka~ Translation : Maya Watson All our daily rites, houses where we shard multitudes of skies, and horizons we’ve made all with you, your companions

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Translated Poem : Seeing Nepal

~Bhim Darshan Rokka~ Translation : Maya Watson Seeing Nepal it seems familiar in the morning its seems somewhere I’ve stepped in this courtyard before in my heart it seems I’ve met this place in dreams, Seeing Nepal it seems

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Translated Poem : My country

~Bhim Darshan Rokka~ Translation : Maya Watson Where the clouds can always count on rest that place to which they aspire where every stream is cradled by a double cliff there my country. Where morning rouses its rays in the … Continue reading

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Translated Poem : The Season of Rain

~Bhim Darshan Rokka~ Translation : Maya Watson The season of rain has come bearing the rainbow’s seven colors why shouldn’t I run with shirt held out to gather in this gift from far off lands has come. The season of … Continue reading

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Translated Poem : Staring Fire

~Bhim Darshan Rokka~ Translation : Maya Watson What fire starts its self? Negligence must’ve ignited it, or did someone mean to light it? But why?

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Translated Poem : Just one Quarter of the Night is left

~Bhim Darshan Rokka~ Translation : Maya Watson Just one quarter of the night remains the collected consequences of the first three parts the moon, which alone reached the East has now in me just a single hope

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Translated Poem : If You Put the Boat in the Water

~Bhim Darshan Rokka~ Translation : Maya Watson If you put the boat in the water I’ll give my hands for oars In the midst of trough and crest

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Translated Poem : Here There Without Care

~Bhim Darshan Rokka~ Translation : Maya Watson Here there without care mimicking white cloud don’t let me make for the sky abandoning the Earth

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