Haiku Entries – March 2009

My husband kneading dough
I making chapattis on the gas stove
The wind against the window
Tshering Dolkar

The long winding mountain road
Wild white blossom trees in the forest
Village women selling rice cakes
Tshering Dolkar

My mind longs for peace,
I sit for a while,
D’oh!!! emotions.
Sherab Jamtsho

In the midst of a humming market
my coins drop
tink, tink, tink…
Kencho Namgyel

I see this girl walking past
and now I want her
ha ha ha ha
Kencho Namgyel

When I was born
I didn’t know I was born
I didn’t know how I was born
I didn’t know why I was born
Now, should I believe I was not born then?
But I still hear and see there is a death.
Kinley Tenzin

I feel so afraid
to walk under the night sky
yet, it seems to be my only friend
Sonam Palden

Barking dogs at night
I don’t know what you are saying
So I called my dad and cried.
Sonam Palden

Plastic ballerina keychain
In the midst of a Bhutanese village
Pretty little thing
Namgay Wangchuk

Washing glasses,
One’s rim slips under my fingers,
A tune sounds.
Namgay Wangchuk

Mind can’t decide,
Hands are shaking,
Comfort in knowing.
Namgay Wangchuk

Shaved head,
cold wind,
When did it stop?
Namgay Wangchuk

rhododendrons with
blossoms of startling colour
one suddenly flies away
Gwen Colman

rising in darkest green
up close the mountains are
dry brown ground
Gwen Colman

a bunch of translators have arrived
still arguing
over sacred syllables
Gwen Colman

me complaining again of the cold
one girl observes
“Yes Madam, it is winter.”
Gwen Colman

My peach tree
Has started flowering
I will cook for my brother tonight
Sonam Palden

Piping hot rotis
Straight off the burner
Lands on my plate
Sonam Palden

He was a lonesome little dog
All alone in the cold winter’s snow
I sit down and draw circles
Sonam Palden

A ray of light
Glitters a dew drop
Sparkles a diamond, alike
Tashi TD

Windows for eyes,
Buds and blossoms for tears,
The road, the only path to its heart,
Thimphu.
Namgay Wangchuk

How can you be and not be,
How can you see and not see,
How can you live and not live,
At the same time; Impossible.
Namgay Wangchuk