Author: Bhuchung D Sonam
Editor(s): Bhuchung D Sonam
Publisher: Paljor Publications
Year: 2010
Language: English
Pages: 196
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8186230483
Description
For the first time, the voices of Tibet's diaspora find expression in an anthology of poetry composed in English: Muses in Exile. History teaches us that artistic and intellectual creativity reach their zenith under the most adverse conditions. And so it has been with Tibetan verse.
Of the thirty writers published here, some have already died young. One at home in Tibet; others in Alaska, Toronto, New Delhi and in the mecca of their exile-Dharamsala. However far-flung their lives, the longing for a homeland, the emigre's estrangement, is expressed here in unison to a variety of literary tunes. This collection is testimony to the anguish, rootlessness and unwavering destiny of a displaced people still mentally marching homeward across the Himalayas.
Contents
INTRODUCTION
GENDUN CHOEPHEL
Milarepa’s Reply
Oh Where?
Rebkong
Manasarovar
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA
A Letter to Marpa
Haiku
Burdensome
Tibetan Pilgrim
Season’s Greetings
As skylarks Hunt for Their Prey
Pan-Dharmadollar
Highlands of Tibet
K DHONDUP
Fresh Winds
Exile
Lines to a Prostitute
A Poet’s Poetry
Cold Mountain Songs
Of Exile and Refuge
After Spring
Existence Anonymous
Poisons of the Mind
A Poem of Separation
Broken Tunes
NGODUP PALJOR
Mountains
Untitled
Ways of the World
Dharmakaya
I Am What I Am
Alaskans
One with Nature
LHASANG TSERING
The Monk and the Nun
TSOLTIM N SHAKABPA
Recollections
Zero
The Dalai Lama
Torn Between Two Countries
Made In China
My Tibet
Om Mani Padme Hum
Haiku
Calendar on the Wall
Nirvana
In Case You Forgot
GYALPO TSERING
In Search of Gesar’s Sword
First Snowfall
On the Wing
Cold Front
To You From Exile
At the End of the Rainbow
The Weatherman (Ngagpa-la)
The Nomad I
The Nomad II
The Nomad III
The Hermit
NORBU ZANGPO
The Broken Plough
The boat People
America
The Wish
TENZING SONAM
Rainbow and a Glass Cage
Plea-(Dance of the Shadows)
May Musings
Vignettes in Random
Untitled
Burlesque
Autumn Love Dance-Time for Reckoning
Song for the Dead
Song for a Season
GENDUN CHOEPHEL (G C)
If I Die
Destination
I Wish To Be Buddha
Reality and Illusion
Pass By
Visions in Snippets
Let Us and Let Us Not
Untitled
TSERING WANGMO DHOMPA
A Matter Not of Order
The water song
Third lesson
Hibernation
TENZIN TSUNDUE
Exile House
Horizon
The Third Side of a Coin
The Flower and I
Untitled
Spider-webbed
Looking For My Onion
I am a Terrorist
TOPDEN TSERING
Pyre of Patriotism
Guilty in Love
For Appearance and Worse
Conflict
TSAMCHOE DOLMA
Mother
A Voice
Freedom
Nangsel
They Are Still Too Young
Love Story of the Snail Queen
A Whisper
Destination, Heart
Silent souls
Stolen Moments of Life
Twilinght’s Delight
The Mother Cuckoo
BHUCHUNG D SONAM
Lone-1
From a Prison Diary
Dylan, Me and Robin Hood
Dandelions of Tibet
Of Death and Peace
Song of an Old Tibetan
Gendun Choephel Wailing From Nangtse Shar Prison
TENZIN TRINLEY
India-I See It Soon Depart
KALSANG WANGDU
Ode to Dhondup Gyal
UPEN CHOEPHEL
A Blind Farmer?
THUPTEN N CHAKRISHAR
The Freedom Song
My last Wish
Together
The Fallen Leaf
A Pledge
NAMGYAL PHUNTSOK
A Dry Leaf
Stone Boy’s Confession
The Call
Thriving in the Flames
TENZIN PALZOM
I Have Aged
SHERAB W CHOEPHEL
Caveat
ANONYMOUS
Tibet is My Destination
GUR GYAL
Cry
Emptiness Again
TSERING DOLKAR
Emptiness
DHARGYAL TSERING
Shambhala
PEMA TENZIN
The View
DAWA WOESER
Three Things I Wait For
KATHUP TSERING
Don’t be Afraid Mother
Barkhor
In This Life I Saw
CHERIN’S NORBU
The Majestic Himalayas
TENZIN GELEK
Dreams
Romancing the Night
Unfulfilled Promises
TSERING DORJEE
Mr Fart