Exile
Exile / is a marigold / blushing luxuriantly
K. Dhondup
K. Dhondup (1952-1995) was born in Rubin Gang in Tibet. He was a restless youth with great zeal. In the 1970s, when there were severe repressions in Tibet by the Communist China, a few Tibetans set up a Tibetan communist party in exile. On 1 May 1979 the Tibetan Communist Party (TCP) came into the …
A Poet’s Poetry
The best poems are written not on papers / But by the swans on the shores / the winds on the highway
A Poem of Separation
And after years of escape and separation / You still recollect those native hills / Those prayer-flags,
Lines to a Prostitute
I love you no less than my own self / This spring night I invite you to be my guest / You are my comrade;
Of Exile and Refuge
Who knows what sunshine / the spring has in its fold for the / soul yearning for its shore
Existence Anonymous
We are all late, except him / We are late for the ceremony of death,
Cold Mountain Songs
For ages / I have been gone / from the home in the Cold Mountains
Broken Tunes
how they took away everything / and left only a handful of / joyless songs on our trembling lips
After Spring
Spent and sad after spring / walking the darkness / drenching in the night rain
Poisons of the Mind
A Tibetan Geshe came / in the morning / and spoke about poisons / that grow in our mind
Fresh Winds
Give us the chance to pursue / our search for our / shores and shapes.