New Poem, Yuyutsu Sharma's "Dai, Chengdu" published in "On the Verge- Poets of the Palisades III Anthology."

Dai, Chengdu

How old are you?

She looked up at me and asked,

a girl name Xio Xio

that translated into Nepali

would mean—

Apple Apple!

She came from Chengdu,

the region known, she announced

for apples,

pandas and beautiful elegant woman.

I have been to Nepal,

she added, and spent time

in the mountain

and learnt few words in Nepali.

Her eyes shone like black birds

in the white nest of her singing face.

I looked at her

slender waist and noticed

a gold-spangled ring

with a tiny lotus dangling out of it.

She bent backwards

shaking her long hair

falling like a dark waterfall

on her marble shoulders.

You must be a Dai then,

an elder brother, she said,

I was wondering

how to address you.

Edited by Paul Nash, Denise La Neve, Susanna Rich, John J. Trause, and David Messineo. 

The Poets of the Palisades shine in their third anthology of new and memorable works — 142 poems from 80 poets. All have had featured readings in the series sponsored by the North Jersey Literary Community in Teaneck, NJ (founded 1997) and the High Mountain Meadow Poetry Series in Wayne, NJ (founded 2017). For these tumultuous times of environmental crisis, bad politics, pandemic, and unrest, the editors selected submitted poems and arranged the best into eleven themed sections

These works, of our time, are on the verge, or, as editor Paul Nash indicates, “In transition … about to change … at the point where something may occur … in anticipation … to extend outward toward the unknown … nearing the likely or inevitable attainment of some state of being … to approach a barrier, boundary or portal … at an event horizon … crossing a permeable membrane … to reach the outer margins of something different or unexpected.”

POETS AND ARTISTS IN THIS ANTHOLOGY: Joel Allegretti, Renée Ashley, Donna Baier Stein, Amy Barone, John Barrale, Caterina Belvedere, Norma Ketzis Bernstock, Michael McKeown Bondhus, Laura Boss, Theresa Burns, Laurie Byro, Kevin Carey, Cathy Cavallone, John Chorazy, David Crews, Jessica de Koninck, Erica Desmond, Catherine Doty, Juditha Dowd, Sandra Duguid, Jane Ebihara, James C. Ellerbe, R.G. Evans, Tom Fitzpatrick, Ellen Foos, Laura Freedgood, Davidson Garrett, Deborah Gerrish, Henry Gerstman, Suzanne Gili Post, George Guida, Barbara Hall, Therése Halscheid, Patrick Hammer Jr., Karen Hubbard, Pamela Hughes, Josh Humphrey, Paul Kuszcyk, Vasiliki Katsarou, Tina Kelley, Adele Kenny, Janet Kolstein, Elaine Koplow, Denise La Neve, Susanna Lee, Joel Lewis, Timothy Liu, Roy Lucianna, Mary Makofske, Charlotte Mandel, Maria Mazziotti Gillan, David Messineo, Marilyn Mohr, Gene Myers, Paul Nash, James B. Nicola, Priscilla Orr, Wayne Pierson, Tom Plante, Jennifer Poteet, Morton D. Rich, Susanna Rich, Denise Rue, Alison Ruth, Brett Rutherford, Yuyutsu Sharma, Danny Shot, Carole Stone, Heather Strazza, John J. Trause, Doris Umbers, David F. Vincenti, Emily Vogel, BJ Ward, Galen Warden, Joe Weil, Barbara R. Williams-Hubbard, George Witte, Dave Worrell, Anton Yakovlev, David Yazzi, Michael T. Young, Donald Zirilli, Sander Zulauf.

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Yuyutsu Sharma's "Jasmine Jewels" inspired by American photographer, Julie Williams-Krishnan's photograph at "Live Encounters", Ireland's leading online magazine

Jasmine Jewels

Inspired by Julie Williams Krishnan’s photograph

Translucent sparks

 of compassion,

quiet, impenetrable

feathers of light,

only fools would

attempt to smash

their indestructible cores

with sledge hammers.

The white jasmine

jewels have traveled

centuries of soft

sleep to arrive here

and nestle like little lambs

between human and divine feet,

tousled, nameless

face of the animal vehicle

beside the frozen feet,

the only clue to the deserts of darkness

they tried to plough through

to overcome the demon that rode

a wolf’s back to drink up

raging oceans of humanity.

Only the quietly menstruating

jasmine flowers survived in the end

 to sum up our story.

@Yuyutsu Sharma

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An Older Poem about a dead monkey : "To Muktinath" by Yuyutsu Sharma

To Muktinath

Yuyutsu Sharma

On my way to Muktinath

I saw a big rhesus monkey

lying dead in grass,

like a crumpled lump of domestic laundry

beside a grey-haired grandma

pulling ebullient strands

of sunlight from

her spinning wheel industriously…

A frozen streak of lightning,

a crinkly flower of divinity,

a flying son of a virgin vermilion wind,

its immobility shook me

with a worrying loss and dread…

Dense forest

lay ahead and outside her hut

a newly born baby

lay snoring after an oily massage in sunlight.

What would you do with it?

I wished to ask

as I hovered around the scene for a while.

Was it killed in an accident?

Or is it a forest menace?

A quiet creek rustled by,

in its glassy surface

the frozen shadow

of a bare branched winter tree

looking like an injured frame

of an untouchable

from the village up above

or a smudged skeleton

of a shriveled, routed Yeti.

From Milarepa’s Bones, Helambu: 33 New Poems, Nirala, 2012

Corina Poem 3: The Supermarket, Elmhurst by Yuyutsu Sharma

“Do you sell any wines here,”

I asked and  waited there for an eternity
as he struggled unpacking his box
of 99 cent merchandise in the aisle,
then rose to face me,
“I speak no Englis.”
I walked the superstore,
stench of the dead and the dying
stinging my nostrils...
A stone crab menacing moving
its smashed pincers atop
a pile of soft shelled turtles
frozen and defaced from
uncouth handling and numerous inspections--
Tilapia, carp and caby fish,
Dungeness crab and special lobsters,
jelly fish, yellow eel, the snake of the sea,
all live and squirming
in the murky waters of my brain...
The striped bass whose face
has been scrubbed along
endless tracks of transportations,
buffalo carp moving in
a murky glass case,
or live frogs in a tin box,
inert, not croaking to bring
Dionysus to these golden
Superstores in the Queens.
Great China crab frozen
beneath layers of an affluence,
conch shells hushed before the snail
could wriggle out of the shell
and name million cosmic metaphors
of self, salvation and sacrifice.
Or leave the empty body
of the Lord to utter a prayer
or a war cry of justice...
I guess it was a revolution
of sparrows as he lifted his step
to stop in the middle
of the jungle on his way out
of the castle Kapilvastu
and carefully step aside
so as not to crush
a line of Industrious ants
or stop a summer song
of ecstatic cicadas
along the raging rivers...

I haste I rushed out
of the slaughter house,
feeling the dragon’s hook
in my throat and bowed to
million little lives on the earth
singing and swaying in an erratic energy
to the music of His long
lustrous earlobes of wisdom...

©Yuyutsu Sharma (yuyutsurd@gmail.com)

From A Blizzard in my Bones: New York Poems, Nirala, 2017

Recipient of fellowships and grants from The Rockefeller Foundation, Ireland Literature Exchange, Trubar Foundation, Slovenia, The Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature and The Foundation for the Production and Translation of Dutch Literature, Yuyutsu Ram Dass Sharma is a world renowned Himalayan poet and translator.

 He has published ten poetry collections including, The Second Buddha Walk, A Blizzard in my Bones: New York Poems, Quaking Cantos: Nepal Earthquake Poems, Nepal Trilogy, Space Cake, Amsterdam and Annapurna Poems. Three books of his poetry, Poemes de l’ Himalayas (L’Harmattan, Paris), Poemas de Los Himalayas (Cosmopoeticia, Cordoba, Spain) and Jezero Fewa & Konj (Sodobnost International) have appeared in French,  Spanish and Slovenian respectively.  In addition, Eternal Snow: A Worldwide Anthology of One Hundred Twenty-Five Poetic Intersections with Himalayan Poet Yuyutsu RD Sharma has just appeared.

He has held workshops in creative writing and translation at Queen's University, Belfast, University of Ottawa and South Asian Institute, Heidelberg University, Germany, University of California, Davis, Sacramento State University, California, Beijing Open University and New York University, New York.

Half the year, he travels and reads all over the world and conducts Creative Writing workshops at various universities in North America and Europe but goes trekking in the Himalayas when back home. Currently,

Yuyutsu Sharma is a visiting poet at Columbia University and edits, Pratik: A Quarterly Magazine of Contemporary Writing.

First Corona Poem: "The Shopkeeper’s Daughter" by Yuyutsu Sharma #ContagiamociDiPoesia

In the local tea shop,

my regular haunt

to write fresh poems

each morning in Kathmandu,

I pull a page

out of my sheaf of papers

to let her read what I’ve been

working on since morning.

She looks at it for a second,

then almost uninterested

as if she has made a mistake

twitches her nose

twisting her face eerily

lifts it as a blade against her cheeks

turning the page

with my Corona poem

as a protection wall

to sneeze behind and return

the sullied page

as a fitting token of appreciation

from some cranky critic.

Recipient of fellowships and grants from The Rockefeller Foundation, Ireland Literature Exchange, Trubar Foundation, Slovenia, The Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature and The Foundation for the Production and Translation of Dutch Literature, Yuyutsu Ram Dass Sharma is a world renowned Himalayan poet and translator.

He has published ten poetry collections including, Second Buddha Walk,  Annapurna Poems,  and A Blizzard in my Bones: New York Poems, Widely traveled author, he has read his works at several prestigious places and held workshops in creative writing and translation at  Heidelberg University, Germany, California, Beijing Open University and New York University, New York..

Half the year, he travels and reads all over the world and conducts Creative Writing workshops at various universities in North America and Europe but goes trekking in the Himalayas when back home. Currently,

Yuyutsu Sharma is a visiting poet at Columbia University and edits, Pratik: A Quarterly Magazine of Contemporary Writing.

yuyutsurd@gmail.com

#ContagiamociDiPoesia

Celebrating Annapurna: The Majestic Mountain Range in Nepal -- Poetry reading by Yuyutsu Sharma

The Poetry Society (India) &

India International Centre

cordially invite you  and your friends to

Celebrating Annapurna:

The Majestic Mountain Range in Nepal

Poetry reading by

Yuyutsu Sharma

on  Friday, January 17, 2020  at  6-30  p.m. at the

India International Centre (Conference Room I)

40 Max Mueller Marg, Lodi Estate, New Delhi 110003

Shri Amarendra Khatua

Former Secretary MEA & Director General, ICCR

will  preside.

RSVP: 9810329992

Recipient of fellowships and grants from The Rockefeller Foundation, Ireland Literature Exchange, Trubar Foundation, Slovenia, The Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature and The Foundation for the Production and Translation of Dutch Literature, Yuyutsu Sharma is a world renowned Himalayan poet and translator.  He has published ten poetry collections including, The Second Buddha Walk, A Blizzard in my Bones: New York Poems, Quaking Cantos: Nepal Earthquake Poems, Nepal Trilogy, Space Cake, Amsterdam and Annapurna Poems. Three books of his poetry, Poemes de l’ Himalayas (L’Harmattan, Paris), Poemas de Los Himalayas (Cosmopoeticia, Cordoba, Spain) and Jezero Fewa & Konj (Sodobnost International) have appeared in French,  Spanish and Slovenian respectively.  In addition, Eternal Snow: A Worldwide Anthology of One Hundred Twenty-Five Poetic Intersections with Himalayan Poet Yuyutsu RD Sharma has just appeared.

Widely travelled author, he has read his works at several prestigious places and
has held workshops in creative writing and translation at Queen's University, Belfast, University of Ottawa and South Asian Institute, Heidelberg University, Germany, University of California, Davis, Sacramento State University, California, Beijing Open University and New York University, New York.  Half the year, he travels and reads all over the world and conducts Creative Writing workshops at various universities in North America and Europe but goes trekking in the Himalayas when back home. Currently, Yuyutsu Sharma is a visiting poet at Columbia University and edits, Pratik: A Quarterly Magazine of Contemporary Writing.

Pratik Magazine: Celebrating Irish Muse Issue launch in Dublin, Sligo and Sydney

DUBLIN

Thursday,  14 November: Dublin Launch of Pratik: Celebrating Irish Muse6.30pm-8.30pm with Jean O'Brien, Nessa O'Mahony, Eleanor Hooker, Anne Fitzgerald, Judith Mok, Jack Grady and Gerard Beirneat at 19 Parnell Square, Dublin 1, D01 E102, Phone: (+353) 1 872 1302, info@writerscentre.ie, https://irishwriterscentre.ie/products/launch-pratik-journal, FREE

SLIGO

Saturday, 16, November, 5 pm, Sligo Launch of Pratik Magazine from Nepal - Irish Poetry Issue Public, Elenaor Hooker, Fred Johnston, , Nuala O'Connor, Gerard Beirne at The Yeats Building, Sligo, Hyde Bridge, Abbeyquarter North, Sligo, Ireland, FREE Hosted by Creative & Academic Writing with Gerard Beirne

SYDNEY/AUSTRALIA

Saturday,16, November, Irish poetry joint launch: Blue Nib & Pratik international lit magazines, 5:00 -8 pmpm Garden Lounge creative space, Shop 1, 481 King Street, Newtown, New South Wales 2042, Australia https://www.facebook.com/events/703770450128716/

Pratik: A Magazine of Contemporary Writing, Edited by Yuyutsu Sharma, Issue XVI/1, 2019

with a special Focus on Irish Poetry  curated by Hélène Cardona. Celebrating Irish Muse, 18 Poets from Ireland: Martina Evans, Thomas McCarthy, Eavan Boland, Steven O'Brien, Nuala O'Connor, Gerard Beirne, Elenaor Hooker, Tess Gallagher, Jack Grady, Nessa O'Mahony, Anne Casey, Fred Johnston, Mary Noonan, Patrick Cotter, Jean O'Brien, Anne Fitzgerald, Paul Casey, Judith Mok. Also featuring 10 Poets from Europe's Cultural Compass along with 11 Long Island Poets celebrating the 200th birthday anniversary of Walt Whitman. Pratik is a purely non-profit literary publication and is published by White Lotus Book Shop, Kathmandu. Pratik has been publishing significant Nepalese voices from Nepal and abroad for last two decades. It has published works by distinguished authors from all over the world and published Special Issues focused on Contemporary British and Dutch Poetry. It has also carried special segments on Swedish, Lithuanian, Chinese, Indian, Ukrainian, French and Russian Poetry. Pratik is published quarterly.

Pratik is a purely non-profit literary publication and is published by White Lotus Book Shop, Kathmandu. Pratik has been publishing significant Nepalese voices from Nepal and abroad for last two decades. It has published works by distinguished authors from all over the world and published Special Issues focused on Contemporary British and Dutch Poetry. It has also carried special segments on Swedish, Lithuanian, Chinese, Indian, Ukrainian, French and Russian Poetry. Pratik is published quarterly.

FULL CONTENTS OF THE ISSUE

Celebrating Irish Muse

EIGHTEEN POETS FROM IRELAND

Martina Evans, Thomas McCarthy, Eavan Boland, Steven O'Brien, Nuala O'Connor, Gerard Beirne, Elenaor Hooker, Tess Gallagher, Jack Grady, Nessa O'Mahony, Anne Casey, Fred Johnston, Mary Noonan, Patrick Cotter, Jean O'Brien, Anne Fitzgerald, Paul Casey, Judith Mok.

“Doorway at Dusk: From Jeddah to New York”

American painter Vivian Tsao's on her evolution as an Artist

EUROPEAN CULTURAL COMPASS

FEATURING TEN POETS

Aurėlia Lassaque – French-Occitan, Lászlo Sárközi – Hungarian-Roma, Edvīns Raups – Latvian, Adrian Oproiu – Romanian, Leta Semadini – German / Rhaeto-Romanic,  Pierre Voėlin – Swiss-French, Anahit Hayrapetyan – Armenia,  Vincenzo Bagnoli – Italian, Mandy Haggith – Scottish, İlhan Sami Çomak– Turki

ELEVEN LONG ISLAND POETS

ON WALT WHITMAN

Celebrating 200th Birth Anniversay of the American Bard

Peter V. Dugan, Barbara Novack, Mindy Kronenberg, Claire Nicolas White, Herb Wahlsteen, Kelly J Powell, Dd. Spungin, Linda Trott Dickman, Barbara Southard, Robert Savino, Ginger Williams

BOOK REVIEWS BY  JULIE WILLIAMS-KRISHNAN AND ROBERT MUELLER

Plus All Regular Columns

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Announcing Upcoming issue of Pratik Magazine

Pratik

A Magazine of Contemporary Writing

XVI/1, 2019

Celebrating Irish Muse

EIGHTEEN POETS FROM IRELAND

Martina Evans, Thomas McCarthy, Eavan Boland, Steven O'Brien, Nuala O'Connor, Gerard Beirne, Eleanor Hooker, Tess Gallagher, Jack Grady, Nessa O'Mahony, Anne Casey, Fred Johnston, Mary Noonan, Patrick Cotter, Jean O'Brien, Anne Fitzgerald, Paul Casey, Judith Mok.

“Doorway at Dusk: From Jeddah to New York”

American painter Vivian Tsao's on her evolution as an Artist

EUROPEAN CULTURAL COMPASS

FEATURING TEN POETS

Aurėlia Lassaque – French-Occitan, Lászlo Sárközi – Hungarian-Roma, Edvīns Raups – Latvian, Adrian Oproiu – Romanian, Leta Semadini – German / Rhaeto-Romanic,  Pierre Voėlin – Swiss-French, Anahit Hayrapetyan – Armenia,  Vincenzo Bagnoli – Italian, Mandy Haggith – Scottish, İlhan Sami Çomak– Turki

ELEVEN LONG ISLAND POETS

ON WALT WHITMAN

Celebrating 200^th Birth Anniversay of the American Bard

Peter V. Dugan, Barbara Novack, Mindy Kronenberg, Claire Nicolas White, Herb Wahlsteen, Kelly J Powell, Dd. Spungin, Linda Trott Dickman, Barbara Southard, Robert Savino, Ginger Williams

BOOK REVIEWS BY  JULIE WILLIAMS-KRISHNAN AND ROBERT MUELLER

Plus All Regular Columns

Online Link to my Column on celebrated Chinese Poet, Jidi Majia in leading Nepali Magazine, Nepal Weekly...

साहित्य

चिनियाँ कवि जिदी माजियाका मर्मस्पर्शी तीन कविता

- युयुत्सु आरडी शर्मा

पहिलो पटक परिचय पाउनुअघि नै मलाई लागेको थियो, यी सन्त पक्कै कवि हुन् ।

त्यो साँझ बेइजिङ नर्मल विश्वविद्यालयको साहित्यिक कार्यक्रमपछि हाम्रो गन्तव्य थियो, लु सुन सेन्टर । बेइजिङका व्यस्त बजार हुँदै एक घन्टापछि हाम्रो गाडी लु सुन सेन्टर छेउको पार्किङमा रोकियो । एउटा साँघुरो बाटो भई सेन्टरको मुख्य द्वारमा पुग्ने बेला खुड्किलोमा बेफिmक्री बसिरहेका व्यत्तिलाई देखेँ । मानौँ, तिनी राजधानी सहरमा होइन, टाढा कुनै हिमाली गाउँको चकमन्न देउराली छेउ उभिएर अनन्तसम्म फैलिएका हरिया डाँडा नियालिरहेका थिए । मानौँ, स्वच्छ आकाशमा साइबेरियन हाँसले बनाइएका अदृश्य मार्गमाथि ध्यानमग्न थिए ।

६ जना कविको टोली नजिक पुगेपछि उनी हाम्रो स्वागतार्थ उभिए । लुसुन सेन्टरका निर्देशक उनै रहेछन् । अर्थात्, प्रख्यात चिनियाँ कवि जिदी माजिया ।

पहिलो भेटमै मैले उनको अनुहारमा अनौठो आत्मीयता देखेँ । पहिले पनि कहीँ भेटेजस्तो । उनको अनुहार पाटनका कास्यकर्मी नेवार दाजुझैँ वा अन्नपूर्ण क्षेत्रमा हिँडिरहेका बेला भेटेका कुनै गुरुङ साहूजीझैँ देखिन्थ्यो ।

अलिक पछि रेन्मेन विश्वविद्यालयमा माजियालाई भेटेको प्रसंग उप्काउँदा मेरी साथी योलेन्दा अचम्मित भएकी थिइन् । “माजिया चीनका लेजेन्ड कवि हुन्,” उनले भनेकी थिइन्, “उनी यति ठूला हस्ती हुन् कि इमेलको जवाफ नदिए पनि मेरो कुनै गुनासो हुने छैन ।” तर योलेन्दाको भनाइको ठीकविपरीत केही सातापछि माजियाको इमेल पाएर म छक्क परेको थिएँ ।

‘मेरो प्रिय भाइ, युयुत्सु ...’ बाट सुरु भएको त्यो पत्र निकै आत्मीय थियो, आफन्तले नै लेखेजस्तो ।

माजिया चीनको मूल धार हान जातिको कुलबाट नभई सिचुआन प्रान्तको पहाडी भेगमा आदिकालदेखि बसोबास गर्दै आएका ‘यी’ प्रजातिका कवि रहेछन् । उनीबाटै उपहार प्राप्त कवितासंग्रह वर्डस् अफ फायर (आगोका शब्दहरु) पढ्दा माजिया चिनियाँ मात्र नभई हिमाली कविजस्ता अनुभूति भयो । माजियाले हिमाली कविले लेख्ने विषयवस्तु– आमा, पहाड, झाँक्रीहरु, पूर्वज आत्मा, रक्सी र आफूले भेटेका वा भेट्न खोजेका कवि रहेछन् ।

माजियाका कवितामा जन्मस्थलका नोसुभाषीका पृथक् मिथक, लोकभाका, महाकाव्य र त्यसमा रहेका महानायकको स्तुतिगान गरिएको छ । यो संस्कृति मूल धारको हान जीवनपद्धति र नेपाली जनजातिको संस्कृतिसित मिल्दोजुल्दो रहेछ ।

नोसु संस्कृतिमा हुर्केका माजिया उच्च शिक्षाका लागि छेङ्दुस्थित साउथ वेस्ट नेस्नालिटिज कलेज गएछन् । त्यहाँ पढ्दा नै उनी एउटा नोसु कविका साथै चिनियाँ भाषा, राष्ट्रिय साहित्यिक धरोहर र विश्व साहित्यका सन्दर्भमा समेत स्थान बनाउन प्रयत्नरत थिए । स्नातकपछि उनी घर फर्के र कविता लेखन, प्रकाशनमा व्यस्त भए ।

चर्चित पत्रिका स्टारमा कविता प्रकाशन आफ्नो कवि करिअरमा एउटा महफ्वपूर्ण घटनाको रुपमा रहेको उनको स्वीकारोक्ति छ । लगत्तै उनले १९८६ मा राष्ट्रिय कविता पुरस्कार जितेका थिए । पछि गएर प्रसिद्ध कवि आई क्विङको छत्रछायामा आधुनिक चिनियाँ कविताको असल उत्तराधिकारी बन्न सफल भए । साथै अन्तर्राष्ट्रिय मूल धारमा रहेका कवि लोर्का, पाज, नेरुदा, भेलाजिओ, आम्चाई, सिम्वोस्का, साइफर्ट र ल्याङ्स्टन ह्युजको प्रेरणामा पनि उनले कविता सिर्जना गरे ।

माजियाको लेखन परम्परागत नोसु संसार र मूल धारको चिनियाँ वाङ्मयबीचको सेतुका रुपमा रहेको छ । पश्चिमेली आलोचक तथा अनुवादक डेनिस मेयरका विचारमा आयरल्यान्डका गेलिक वा आइरिस भाषा क्षेत्रबाट आएका अंग्रेजीमा लेख्ने कविझैँ माजियाले चिनियाँ भाषामा लेखेका कवितामा आफ्नो जन्मस्थल र जनजातीय संसारको सुगन्ध भेटिन्छ ।

माजियाको काव्यसंसारमा आमाहरु अनि प्राचीन आत्माको गीत गाइरहेका भेटिन्छन् । उनको काव्यमा नोसु प्रान्तको स्तुतिगान सशक्त छ । यहाँ झाँक्रीहरुले ढ्याङ्ग्रो ठोक्छन् र गीत सुनाउँछन्, जन्म र मृत्युको । आह्वान गर्छन्– सूर्य, तारा, खोलाको/प्राचीन नायक, देवता अनि तिनका दैवी शक्तिको ।

माजियाको प्रांगणमा देखिन्छन्, ऋतुको प्रार्थना र बुटु युवतीको छालाको रङबाट चिनिन्छ मातृभूमिको माटोका रङ । उनले गुनियालाडाका पर्वतका बाख्राका खुर बजार्दै चकमन्न उपत्यकाका बाटोमा अद्भुत र जादूयी हिमाली संसारको प्रखर परिचय दिएका छन् । उनको जगत्मा एक पहाडी तरुनी छन् । लुगुताल र लायन नाम गरेको पहाड उनको अजर आमा । केही अज्ञात कारण आमाले छोरीलाई विवाह गरी पठाएकी छैनन् ।

यहाँ सुन्दर आमाहरुको गीत पवित्र, निक्खर र गहिरो बग्ने खोला रहेछ । आमाहरु अप्सराझैँ सुन्दर हुन्छन् । आमाको मृत्युपछि पनि उनको मृत शरीर दायाँतिर फर्काएर राखिन्छ मसानमा । भनिन्छ, यसले उनको देब्रे हात चर्खामा ऊन कात्नका निम्ति खाली हुनेछ, आत्मालोकमा पनि ।

त्यसो त एउटा जनजाति मात्रका कवि होइनन्, माजिया । उनी सम्पूर्ण चीनका प्रखर स्वर हुन् । उनी भन्छन्, “यो समय हो निर्णय गर्नका लागि । यही समय हो, नेता र नागरिकले आफ्ना भाग्य साझा गर्नका लागि । याद राख्नुस्, चीनमा यस युगले तपाईंहरुका हाडमा छाप छाडिदिनेछ ।”

पछिल्ला कवितामा माजिया इटालियन राष्ट्र निर्माता एवं महाकवि दाँतेको घर पुगी उनका ढोका ढकढकाउँछन्, अमेरिकी पेन्टर ओ किफीको कालो कपालमाथि कविता लेख्छन् र स्पेनिस कवि सिजर भेलाजिओको चिहानमाथि उभिएर उनको जीवन संघर्षमाथि चिन्तन गर्छन् ।

माजिया इतिहास परम्परा र आधुनिकताको द्वन्द्वको प्रश्नसित संघर्षरत काव्यरथी हुन् । उनी यी प्रजातिका कवि त भइहाले, सिंगो राष्ट्रका सुन्दर मानिस र विश्वभरिका अग्रज कविस्रष्टाको मुटुको ढुकढुकीको प्रखर स्तुतिगान गर्ने आधुनिक चीनका हिमाली कवि हुन् ।

माजियाका तीन कविता

स्वतन्त्रता

मैले एक नामी विद्वान्लाई सोधेको थिएँ–

के छ त स्वतन्त्रताको असली अर्थ ?

तिनको उत्तरमा सत्य वचन थियो

मलाई लागेको थियो कि उनका शब्दले

स्वतन्त्रतालाई सम्पूर्ण परिभाषित गरेका छन्

एक साँझ

नताली चरन क्षेत्रमा

मैले एउटा घोडा देखेँ, डुलिरहेको उन्मुक्त

एकदम स्वतन्त्र, निर्देशविहीन, दिशाविहीन

रक्सीले द्युत एक कज्जाक घोडसवार

उसको ढाडमाथि सुतिरहेको थियो

मस्त मुद्रामा

हो, मेरा लागि ती विद्वान्ले स्वतन्त्रतालाई परिभाषित गरेका थिए

तर कसले बताउन सक्छ मलाई ?

नताली चरन क्षेत्रमा

कुनचाहिँ बढी स्वतन्त्र थियो

घोडा कि उसमा सवार कज्जाक ?

जवाफहरू

के तिमी अझै सम्झन्छौ

जिली बुटे जाने त्यो गोरेटो

एउटा महझैँ मधुर गोधूलि साँझ

उनले मलाई भनेकी थिइन्–

मेरो बुट्टा भर्ने सियो हराएको छ,

ल चाँडै त्यसलाई खोज्न मेरो मद्दत गर्नुस् त

(मैले चारैतिर खोजेँ त्यस गोरेटोमा)

के तिमी अझै सम्झन्छौ

जिली बुटे जाने गोरेटो

एउटा गह्रुँगो गोधूलि साँझ

मैले उनलाई भनेँ–

मेरो मुटुमा केही गडेको छ गहिरोसँग

के त्यो बुट्टा भर्ने सियो त होइन ?

लोकगीत

मानिस घर फर्किसके हाट बजारबाट

तर मेरो कविता फर्केको छैन

उसलाई मातेको देखिएको थियो

हतास मुद्रामा लडबडाइरहेको

हातमा सुनौलो हारपिन बाजा लिएर

एउटा घरको पालीमुनि

साँझपख चौबाटोमा

भेडाहरू झरिसके डाँडाबाट

तर मेरो कविता अझै फर्केको छैन

नाइके भेडाले

यसलाई झलक्क देखेको थियो

सूर्य तलतिर ढल्केका बेला

यसले नियालिरहेको थियो रक्ताम्य पहाडहरू

र, रुन सक्ने बिन्दुभन्दा पर पुगिसकेको थियो

गहिरो शोकमा लिप्त हुँदै

सबै छिमेकी निदाइसके

तर मेरो कविता अझै घर फर्केको छैन

मूलढोकामा म बसिरहेको छु प्रतीक्षारत

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स्केचहरु : जिदी माजिया

प्रकाशित: श्रावण २७, २०७६

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