Course of Courage
For Nepal lovers of the world
Steamy sighs
of civilians enamored
by the shimmer of snow peaks,
tears from across
the Seven Seas that dried up
before they could leap over
and reach the grand
canyons of endless grief,
nimble fingers that
became invisible
before they could touch
the pool of blood
beneath shaking glaciers,
lips that crusted
and cracked before
they could lick clean
the bleeding eyes
in the crumbling pagodas
held upright
by the frail pillars of human support,
Wooden beams raised
up against porous walls
erected before
mega quakes of history,
buildings about to tumble
Into the grand jaw of Time,
and houses in whose
peacock windows
kohl-eyed grandmas
squat like fearless goddesses
in their astral caskets,
their wrinkled eyes
watching life’s wheel
roll on the cobblestone streets,
waiting in an eerie
radio silence
for life to bounce back
and resume its usual
course of courage…
From Quaking Cantos : Nepal Earthquake Poems by Yuyutsu Sharma
Bio of the poet: Yuyutsu Sharma – Wikipedia
Yuyutsu Sharma is the world renowned Himalayan Poet. His recent published poetry book is “Lost Horoscope.” These are his published poetry books:
- The Second Buddha Walk: Inspired by the Second Buddha: Master of Time Exhibit at Rubin Museum, New York , Nirala, New Delhi, 2018
- Quaking Cantos: Nepal Earthquake Poems , Nirala, New Delhi, 2016
- A Blizzard in my Bones: New York Poems, Nirala, New Delhi, 2016
- Nine New York Poems: A Prelude to‘A Blizzard in my Bones: New York Poems’, Nirala, New Delhi, 2014
- Milarepa’s Bones, Helambu:33 New Poems, Nirala, New Delhi, 2012
- The Nepal Trilogy I-III Photographs and Poetry about the Nepal areas of Annapurna, Everest, Helambu & Langtang, www.Nepal-Trilogy.de,·www.Nepal-Trilogie.de) (english-deutsch, Epsilonmedia, Karlsruhe Germany, 2010
- www.AroundAnnapurna.de: A photographic and Poetic Journey around Annapurnas, Nepal, Epsilonmedia, Karlsruhe Germany
- www.WayToEverest.de:A photographic and Poetic Journey to the Foot of Everest, Epsilonmedia, Karlsruhe Germany, 2006
- Annapurna Poems, Nirala, New Delhi, 2008
- Everest Failures, White Lotus Book Shop, Kathmandu 2008
- Space Cake Amsterdam and other Poems from Europe and America, Howling Dog Press, Colorado, 2009
- The Lake Fewa and a Horse, Poems New, Nirala, New Delhi, 2005, 2009
- Poèmes de l’Himalaya, trans. by Nicole Barrière and Camille Bloomfield, L’Harmattan, Paris, 2009
- Poemas De Los Himalayas: Bilingual Spanish/English Poetry Collection, Translated into Spanish with an Introduction by Veronica Aranda, 2010, Cosmopoeticia, Cordoba, Spain
- Some Female Yeti & other Poems, Nirala, New Delhi, 1995
- Hunger of our Huddled Huts & other Poems, Nirala, New Delhi, 1989, 2011
- A Prayer in Daylight, Poems, Nirala, Jaipur, 1984