Eternal Snow: A Worldwide Anthology of One Hundred Twenty Five Poetic Intersections with Himalayan Poet Yuyutsu RD Sharma
Edited by David Austell & Kathleen D Gallagher
ISBN : 81-8250-088-5 2017 Paperback pp 309 plus 24 Photo pages
Eternal Snow is a testament to the power of words to inspire, encourage, and heal across vastly disparate cultures and distant places. Over one hundred and twenty-five poets from around the world come together in this anthology to explore their interactions, collisions, and intersections with Yuyutsu Sharma, renowned Himalayan poet, journalist, translator, and editor from Kathmandu, Nepal.The book is a clear example of the new world itinerancy of the modern poet, and the global efficacy of poetry, in that Yuyu’s world travels have touched the hearts and minds of thousands of people who have heard his readings around the world and read his words in print and on-line. Not all the contributors are professional poets. Eternal Snow also captures the poetic voices of a hairstylist, a photographer, a Yoga teacher, a priest, a nurse, and a social scientist. In these pages, a young poet in Kathmandu sees her late father in Yuyu’s face; a social worker conjures the Goddess of the Children while serving the Bhutanese refugees in California; a New York University professor ponders an Asian challenge: setting her house on fire to become a real poet. The results captured in these poems attest to the literary collisions which occur when global poets meet. Eternal Snow is a singular, remarkable, and moving work of art. Includes poetry by John Clarke David Ray James Ragan Ravi Shankar Eileen O’Connor Gorka Lasa Pascale Petit Elena Karina Byrne Chuck Joy Andrew Taylor Amarendra Khatua Ruth Danon Tim Tomlinson Verónica Aranda David Axelrod Tony Barnstone Art Good Times Robin Mets Barbara Novack Hélène Cardona Irene O’ Garden Carolyn Wells Diane Frank Bill Wolak and Others
CONTENTS
PREFACE/5
INTRODUCTION/9
POETRY
All the Way from Kathmandu
John Clarke / 23
It is so dark so I made me a torch
Tracie Morell / 25
Old Ways
Lori Ann Kusterbeck / 26
Oppositely Charged Ions
Ravi Shankar / 28
Annapurna’s Mercy
Eileen O’Connor / 30
Solar tear
Gorka Lasa / 31
Machapuchere (Fishtail Mountain)
Pascale Petit / 33
The Mountain man and Cold Fish
Chuck Joy / 35
Getting High
Lorraine Conlin / 36
Yuyutsu
Paul Nash &
Denise La Neve / 37
hello yuyutsu
Andrew Taylor / 38
for yuyutsu
Amarendra Khatua / 39
Ancestral Home
Meera Ekkanath Klein / 40
Three Poems
Sometime
Whose Lodge Is This in the Holy Sky?
Who We are
Eskimo Pie / 42
His Dark Eyes
Christi Shannon Kline / 45
From a Lotus Petal
Revigya Joshi / 48
Two Poems
Snow
After Tagore
David Ray / 50
Two Poems
Lake Erie: Daughter of Sorrows
Failure to Bloom
Kathleen D Gallagher/52
Two Poems
The Judgment of Innocents
Three Kathmandu Poems
David B. Austell/56
Parnassus to New York
Maria Heath Beckett / 63
Moving Everest
James Ragan / 70
Stateside
Renay Sanders / 72
Himalayas
Shawn Aveningo / 74
El Cartero Del Rey
The King’s Postman
Juan Carlos Abril / 76
Yak Brothers
Tim Kahl / 79
Ode to a Himalayan Poet
Dom Kafley / 81
Travel in Solo Class
Judy Ray / 83
Below the Tatra Mountains
Tera Vale Regan / 84
Four Poems
Canon for Bears and Ponderosa Pines
Letter To Scott From The Waterfall
Letter From A Secret Mountain Place
Last Night In The Himalayas
Diane Frank / 86
Of Yuyu
Lady K (Kathy Smith) / 92
In the Silence of the Snow
Karen Corinne Herceg / 93
Two Poems
Ushas
Namaste
Kate Lamberg / 94
O Holy Bagmati River
Penny Kline / 97
Burning on the Pyre
Sharon Metzler-Dow / 99
Tibetan Still Life, Pokhara, Nepal
M. L. Williams / 102
Two Poems
The Durbar of Nepal
Pinnacles
Robert Scotto / 104
Exile
Nicole Barriere / 107
Four Poems
To Yuyu
On the E train
After Yuyu
At Gray’s Papaya on Broadway
Anne Fritz / 108
Intersections
Irene O’Garden / 112
Vocation
Ruth Danon / 113
Three Poems
The Forehead of the sky
To slap my Face
A Dawn of Democracy
Mary E. Weems / 115
The little Lamp of Mine
Roopa Ramamoorthi / 117
The Summoner
Dan Szczesny / 119
Seven Stanzas for Yuyutsu Sharma
Nancy Aidé Gonzalez / 121
The Circle
Nancy R Lange / 123
Four Poems
Easter Monday
Climb
Sleepers
Imperfect Human
Michael Graves / 126
Pilgrimage to Changu Narayan
Eugene Hyon / 130
Meeting Sharma
Marcus Bales / 132
Poems
Peter V. Dugan / 133
Beasts are awakening…
Aixia de Villanova / 134
Hey you there, in a Katmandu bookshop
Leah Taylor / 137
Man from the mountains
Cristina Querrer / 139
Two Poems
New Have you been to Tibet?
Incense
Bari Falese / 141
Two Poems
Vertigo
Travelmarvel
Agnes Marton / 144
Two Poems
Living in Silence
Outdoor Yoga Meditation Haiku
Patricia Carragon / 147
Long After
Dd. Spungin / 149
Ayer anochecía en Katmandú
Yesterday Dusk Was Falling in Kathmandu
Verónica Aranda / 151
This is Yuyutsu
Samantha Bear / 155
Great Divides
Darlene Costello / 158
Three Poems
City Gardener
Veiled
Yahrzeit
Mindy Kronenberg / 159
Yuyutsu in America
David Axelrod / 162
Two Poems
Beast in the Apartment
The Parable of the Burning
House
Tony Barnstone / 163
Dhaulagiri
Russ Green / 168
After Yuyu
Alessandra Francesca / 170
The Quataquatatankua
Nabina Das / 171
Sharma Charms
Ronnie Norpel / 176
Two Poems
This Time in Kathmandu
Bishnu’s (pie & chi)
Eddie Woods / 177
Two Poems
It Will Not Be Apparent from the Crazy Circus
From the Crazy Circus
Kim Nuzzo / 180
My Looks
Cliff Fyman / 182
One Rupee
Barun Bajracharya / 185
The Birth of Sagarmatha
Charles Peter Watson / 186
Want
Christopher Wheeling / 188
Voor Yuyutsu,
For Yuyutsu,
Merik van der Torren / 189
After Li Po
Art Good Times / 191
All That Falls
Robin Mets / 194
Landscape with Snow
Erica Mapp / 195
Yuyutsu Ram Dass Sharma
Bill Wolak / 197
Someday you will understand
Roxanne Hoffman / 200
Two Poems
Wishes
Your Smile
Civa Bhusal / 202
I’ll simply proceed
D. B. Meltzer / 204
Untitled Gypsy Poem
Cee Williams / 205
If you die one day
Bidur Prasad Chaulagain / 207
Namaste
Vicki Iorio / 208
What Matters
Barbara Novack / 210
Sherpa Wisdom
Mary Ryan Garcia / 211
Blue Panther Grey
Theresa Göttl Brightman / 214
A Steady Trundle of Footfalls
Steve Brightman / 216
The Dirt the Dirt
Jack Tar / 218
Upon Meeting Maya
Kymberly Avinasha Brown / 220
Namaste
Catherine Gigante-Brown / 221
Meeting Yuyutsu Sharma
Marion Palm / 223
Three Poems
My Mother Ceridwen
Peregrine Pantoum
Parallel Keys
Hélène Cardona / 225
Pre-Acid
André Baum / 229
I’m an “Open Mic Gypsy”
Phillip Giambri / 231
Kirat
Devin Wayne Davis / 235
Spice
Alex Symington / 237
A Poet of Higher Realms
Rajesh Siddharth / 238
Trust
Trust, Regained
Marisa Moks-Unger/ 240
Nepal
Lorraine Bouchard / 242
Your Tongue Discovers My Body
Shreejana Bhandari / 244
Song Of Livin For This
Don Carroll / 245
I gave Yuyu a Hug
Anthony Murphy / 247
Two Poems
Prayer By a Stream
This, To the Bear
Timothy Gager / 249
Pedi-Jealousy in the Court
John J. Trause / 251
The Snow In Nepal
Jack Locke / 253
On Everest
Anuj Ghimire / 254
The Friendship Key
Elaine Karas-Shadle / 255
Two Poems
Imagine a red circle here…
The Invisible Spirit Of Why
Elena Karina Byrne / 256
Two Poems
Forehead of the Sky
Gates of the Valley
Allegra Jostad Silberstein/ 259
Be the Sun that doesn’t burn
Gaurav Bhattarai / 261
Two Poems
Spiral Flight
Little Dish
Su Polo / 263
The Evening Lingers
Roger McClain / 265
The Belle on 8th
Ken Ruan / 266
Yuyutsu Sharma at Akron Night Murmurs
Jen Pezzo / 268
Cold Skin
Marcus Calvert / 269
Untitled
Thomas Jenney / 270
Our mother died on a Sunday
Judi Chabola / 271
Ebb Tide at Helambu
Bishwa Sigdel / 272
Prayer to Annapurna Devi Maa
Carolyn Wells/ 274
Four Poems
The Itinerary Poet
Meeting the Poet
If you wanna be Mad
My Guru
Arun Budhathoki / 275
Two Poems
How a Living Bird Became a Jewel
Our Lady Duse
Carol Hebald / 279
Two Poems
To the Goddess of the Children
Magnolia Home
Melissa Hobbs / 282
Morning, Buddha’s 2600th birthday
Jan Garden Castro/ 284
Four Poems
Fetuses, I & II
Looking For Mikey
Rush Hour Sonnet
I Go Down
Tim Tomlinson /285
One Early Morning
James Romano / 289
The Goddess in the Sky
Stood behind Him
Ernie Burns / 291
ETA
Swati Sharma / 293
The Editors of
Eternal Snow/ 297
The Poets of
the Eternal Snow/ 299
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