"nanda" poems
Cloud and snow spume
drift about your summit
veiling your face
Ma Nanda Devi
fixing my gaze to eternity
Rising like a giant shard of
rock carved over a million years,
snowfields scoured by avalanches, your steepled
peak a vast cathedral
Impossibly tall and steep
you rise abruptly over a
guardian ring of summits
witness to your inner realms of being,
the outer gorge of Rishi Ganga's roar
Climbers say in higher climes
light contrasts with darkness, flower leas with worn ridges, fear with elation
O paradox of the sublime
your name means Joy, enduring Joy
The veil lifts, was it the smoke of fires lit
by sages on your summit?
Your natural symmetry of two identical peaks suddenly at ease
is visible from my cottage window.
Jul 10, 2016
Jul 10, 2016 at 11:17 PM UTC
"We work with the substantial,
but the emptiness is what we use."
If all things were equal it plays out like this:
A rainy day and we're at the Rose Garden
Your father bought the seats. He enjoys that I like sports so much,
Takes him back to a simpler time when he played in a gym similar to this
Where he met your mother
You're in black and it has nothing
to do with the team colors
You say it's a phase and I believe it
We scale Nanda Devi and you look the part of the mountain's name
You look the way you did on the afternoon I met you.
I wonder where the levee is this time
Above the clouds we are naked to the sun and the sky,
naked and raw to each other
and it feels whole and honest
Feverish night in a dive bar in La Paz
there are skulls on the wall
I think to what end
Men and women crowd the floor
The band is hitting its stride after a marathon set
We dance until we are both in many different places
Some of which involve the person we are dancing with
Sometimes we are alone in front of a mirror
I've never had to help you stand at the end of the night
You never have to ask me to go outside
Intertwined tightly on a twin bed, maybe for the night
A train eats up track in the distance.
We remember now when we shared a room.
(Tops of two bunk-beds, as if lying on two different shores)
Arms around you and I forget the concept of possession
Sep 30, 2011
Sep 30, 2011 at 2:59 PM UTC
My boy, you've left me for eight months
I'm searching you like in great hunt
I found you in my blurry dreams
Why was I not let go up-front?
To live few more at fifty plus
I've used up all my heartbeats pump
You'd instead live more in your teens
You'll hit all your aim with a jump
The reason you're that I survive
How should I spend my nights and days?
Could I stand tall without a beam?
We were together all the way
Imagine how I'm lonely one
A statue somehow I become
No sound I heard and blank was seen
I'm dumb and all of my parts numb
May 1, 2021
May 1, 2021 at 4:03 PM UTC
Suddenly you've gone
Togetherness is not long
I miss you deeply my son
My only one
With your death, you've taught me all the facts
How to understand the disease called EDS
Too much complex! It presented problems no one could accept
You were bearing these on your death bed
Pain! days and nights
Your spines were not that right
Muscle spasm on your backside
So do your heart and even your eye sights
Moving slow
Enema ***** helped to pass down the flow
That is called 'diarrhoea overflow'
You've suffered all these... no one knows
I couldn't sleep till the first light
Now forty days and forty nights
These nights were the worst nights in life
I must overcome to be right
Missing you is my only right
Can't see solace on my way tonight
Thar Thar! My son!
Wakes up!
And help me to survive first
Then advise me how to live my life
To my late son Nanda Phyo Win who passed away on 1st September 2020
Dec 26, 2020
Dec 26, 2020 at 10:21 AM UTC
While I'm polishing the chandelier
I remember we listened Sia together
On all the facets, saw your faces reflected
It was like a movie or a mystery sound tract
As the crystals become sparkle
You're surrounding me in multiples
Now I'm in solitide: the one you left
Without a hint the day would turn into a cleft
Noone tell me to take a rest as you used to be
I thank you for always taking care of me
To my late son Nanda Phyo Win who passed away on 1st September 2020
Dec 26, 2020
Dec 26, 2020 at 10:16 AM UTC
O mother
Give me the moon toy
Drink will not I
Dhauri cow's milk
Nor will I
Plait my hair!
Now will I
Roll up on the ground
I will not come
To your lap!
Neither will I
Take the pearl necklace
Nor the jhanguli one
Will I be called
Nanda's son
But not yours!
O Jasoda takes him
By his ears!
And says softly
Oh baby don't tell your brother
More beautiful than the moon
Will be the bride
I'll bring you
Hearing this he spake
Oh then,ma Get me
Wed just now,not late
Soor friends all will be
The groom's companions
And thus sing
Auspicious strains
Without suspicions!
Mar 8, 2018
Mar 8, 2018 at 6:40 AM UTC
I need only one more dawn my dear boy
There are things I've to say to you in mind
Suddenly leaving without my knowledge
No chances to comfort your last damage
All untold plans now burning to ashes
Secured for life, avoid harmful splashes
Now it's like built a castle in the cloud
Though I've made my best for you to be proud
Thanks! telling me most of your emotions
Forgive me! I haven't paid full attention
You're so kind hiding that'll hurt my feelings
I can't fill your wants: the last twelve seasons
Forgive you all, needless to say a word
A boy, no more guilt than everyone does
Talking in the absence of your presence
Pain is creeping like cancer with penance
It's easy to say to get refuge in Buddha Dhamma
In reality, I'm not a man with Pārāmi Ariā
Must I find a way to live with full of inner peace
Or come to you to protect and provide whatever you need?
To my late son Nanda Phyo Win who passed away on 1st Seotember 2020
Dec 26, 2020
Dec 26, 2020 at 10:07 AM UTC
You are a part of this di scion
A fallacious stride hurts your articulus genu
Genuinely sore wa tsumete wa, kokoro ko nanda demo natte
Genus and class doughnut matter when you're in the dorsal shadow
Underclassmen stifled by the pernicious tsuakata kumorobi do
Flying on swift imagination, rare as imaginary folklore
I wish I could fly and soar
Jul 21, 2019
Jul 21, 2019 at 3:35 PM UTC