Jelep La Poem by Joydeep Sircar

Jelep La

Rating: 5.0


Younghusband's ghost haunts Padamchen.
Tarmac runs where mule tracks went.
The road from Zuluk climbs in zags.
Wind whips Buddhist prayer-flags.
Iron huts erupt like rash
across slopes of sere yellow grass.
Sangars crown each rocky hill.
Ice films over tarn and rill.
Silent rock and crusted snow
watch the armies come and go.

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Sallie Howson 31 August 2005

good poem..i was transported there

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