Pushpa Ratna Tuladhar
Searching Peace Starring at the sky of gloomy night To an edge scanned by his piercing eyes, The gray haired human, Grasping his foot hold of his earth Quaked by the war, Occupies in his optimum endeavor To feel sensory experience of The still of a shining star That plunged to his planet By delving with his walking stick Into numerous groups of the shining stars Shattered in the sky. The gray-haired human so severely shivers With fear of not being unaware of His spirit of tenacious belief To experience his consciousness of A divine breath of serene living In the cool and calm atmosphere Condensed by still of the shining star and Poured by the greenery of Nature. Every once in a while The gray haired human Takes his courageous stand Grasping his foot rigid hold Rigorously in his earth To be severely secured Not to tumble over his planet By the sudden hit tremor. No fatigued spirit he has Beyond his limitless, vigorous efforts, Truly contented he is And sturdy belief he has. The still of the shining star Drops truly in his planet And fortifies a plethora of greens To his planet, where he deeply breathes. A Sacrificial Heart Rachel! Your inner beauty can Never hide in a bushel By those beholding eyes, Who recognize your pretty devoted soul Shattered on the skin of this earth By the speedy motion Of an Israeli army bulldozer That runs mercilessly over Your young and courageous hearts As a stout and strong human shield To total destruction of humane human And to tyranny of the ferocious tyrant In the city of Rafah. Rachel! Not only Rafah Even the burning sands of the sands Shed stream of tears. Rafah fascinates the reality Of your blossoming beauteous mind And moves her hands caressing Your golden long hairs That spread over pale colored earth Washed by your bloody bloods. Rachel! You’ve mingled your hearts With the hearts of the Rafah Who shares your inner feeling Deeply in the depths of your soul And hides unuttered agony within its soul Rachel! Your mind’s so nice and soft But so strong and stout Nudges a deepest love to humane human And an everlasting peace to humanity. Shattered rose petals, Withered to deep red In the sands of the sands, Touch the earth beneath your natured body And feel the touch that stilled the quiet sea. Rhythms amidst the sea Feel the waves Whispering against your skin Agglutinated to the pale earth And fade out to all eternity To save Rafah in total turmoil. To bow my head to you, Rachel, The only white rose of the Sands, You moved up to the distant, bluish sky Twinkling as a brilliant star for ever and Beholding the only peace for all eternity, In the green planet far beneath.. Rachel Corrie, 23, of Washington DC, and a US peace activist, was crushed to death by an Israeli army bulldozer, which ran over her in the town of Rafah in the SouthernGaza strip, while she and other activists tried to prevent the destruction of Palestinian homes. My Tranquil Dream When I grasp hold of the deep sleep And sink soundly in the ocean of peace With no sense on my body and Sensibility in my mind, My whole body is then clasped to death As the opened cage From where my sweet dream Exits out and enters in As it likes At any time it prefers Roaming free-minded In the blues of the sky, In the fragrance of the bloom, In the greenery of the Nature, In the folk tales Foretold by my grand mother, And in the fairy tales Fore written by my grand father. It even conjures up a magic flying car and Travels with Harry Potter In the Hogwarts Express Speeding over a magnificent viaduct. After roaming around the planet, My dreams come back again To the open cage, Which is then securely locked Barring its way to enter in and exit out. I wake up then from my deep sleep And occupy in my bed stiffly yawned Refreshing in my mind the sweet dreams That I’ve forgotten and forlorn My deeply rooted sleep Still annoys me. |
Pushpa Ratna Tuladhar, born 1948 in Katmandu, Nepal, is a poet, and president of Nepal Bhasa Writer's Forum. He is also the editor of Layalama Online Magazine. His Publications include a poetry collection in Nepal Bhasa, Ghayanmo (1990) and a collection of ten poems in Nepal Bhasa and English. Visit Pushpa Tuladhar's Poetry Pages at www.pushpatuladhar.netfirms.com
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