Autumn of Himalayas – A Poem from Nepal
Rupsingh Bhandari, an eminent poet from the land of Himalayas, shares his poem.
Rupsingh Bhandari
A poet, short story writer, social activist, critic and translator from the Karnali province of Nepal, Rupsingh writes in English, Nepali and Hindi. Rupsingh has published several poems, articles, short stories, as well as translated poems and stories. He is the author of the Conscience’s Quantum poetry book. He served as editor of the International Anthology of Pandemic Poetry 2020. His creations are worldwide anthologized and published. He is founder of Words Highway International (Writers Association). Rupsingh does painting and music and loves to travel.
Autumn of Himalayas
Himalaya’s autumn
Before descending into chilling winter
Unmistakably
Organizes its mystic matrimony:
Beats of the festive music
From villages to villages,
The harvesting songs of crops,
The fragrances and colors of the distinct trees,
The emerald kingdom’s dances of breezes,
The shrill melodies of ravines and hills
Retells the wedding story of unseen
Bride and bridegroom every year
Unscripted…
The verdant earth conspiring with clouds
Drizzles unexpectedly,
The chinking sun blesses
The rice paddy’s richness,
The untoned sky
Bedewing the earth… farewells the summer
As the graduated students
Unnoticed.
Bowed boughs of mellow fruits
Teaches the humbleness,
Trees holding the empty nest
Tutors the interconnectedness,
The Himalayas removing its cloudy muffler
Shows its heavenly beautifulness,
Peacefully mediated mountains
After the long summer cry
Preach faithfulness
Unspoken…
The old leaves withdraw their
Intimation being gold memories
Ushering the life
In new continuum,
Stars starkly perch hopes on the windows
In the showery nights,
The hurrying nameless hilly brooks
Bullying the bushes of banks run down to meet
Their relatives
Barefooted.
The clouds
As the army troops imitating the Himalayas
Parading over the clear blue sky,
Cohering and removing its moves, as the folk dance.
Flowers wait desperately
Sending autumnal aroma to bees and butterflies
As the invitation letter.
The rivers stealing the sky color head down roaring
To tell the sacred testimony of
Autumn ceremony of Himalayas
Unacknowledged.
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