A stalled monsoon trough over central Nepal
caused continuous torrential heavy rainfall
Slopes pushed up moisture from the Bay of Bengal
The catastrophe was looming large to befall.
Sudden breach of a moraine dam
Triggered Glacial Lake outburst floods
A surge of water and debris devastates
downstream, catching communities off guard.
Landslides continued to collapse slopes,
forming temporary dams that later burst
Steep valleys amplified runoff swift and fast
Flood of fury of all time unleashed the worst.
A compound climate disaster of twin sciences
Meteorology and geology to decipher in depth
monsoon extremes, unstable glaciers, terrain hazards
Perished hundreds of lives and left many homeless.
Sparse sensors, lack of predictive models a curse
Warrant real time glacial monitoring at source
With closely spaced weather station networks
And cross border early warning systems
…….Narayan Gadagkar
glacial sun stares down
clouds imprison this white orb
winter teases us
It’s hard to comprehend when I look out,
but the science has left so little doubt,
ten thousand years back, this place I call home
was chilly depths, where only fishes roamed.
The whole if it a lengthy glacial lake,
but to my mind that seems like some mistake.
Ten thousand years…that doesn’t seem so long,
Karan Tepe is older, it feels so wrong…
to change so much in very little time,
that this was water seems strange to my mind;
but sandy soil, erosion on cliffs,
scraps on the rock, they tell the truth of it.
Ten thousand years…that high ridge was a shore,
what will in look like in ten thousand more?
Walking together entwined in the garden
You whispered the tune of autumn breeze
Your enigmatic smile, the mirage of illusion
I thought sparkled in my stellar yearning.
When the northern wind started to blow
Your lips curled like wilted petal of flower
The diaphanous mystery mist shrouded you
So close by my side, yet you were so far.
As the spent sun set in my pallid twilight sky
I traced your footprints coming from the cold
Sought the warmth of your charred fire place
But in your dismal hearth I found no fire.
My vague sense of frozen belonging lingered
In the glacial crevice of your remote heart
I lighted array of thousand candles of desire
Tried to melt the ice, didn’t know if I could.
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June 7, 2022
For A Brian Strand Premiere Choice Contest
Glacier! Icy, cold,
hard. Diamond-like, it chisels
the frosty landscape.
GLACIAL GALA NPM
Bride Earth's pearly sleets
Sheeny snowflake embellished
Moonlit Snowdrops gaze!
Date:30/12/2020
GLACIAL
Scent of lilies.
His pain over, mine just begun.
I caressed those hands, gifted, loving.
Kissed his waxen brow.
A blink away from the dying sun,
the ignition key trembled.
I half-expected to waken,
clasped in his arms. Soothed
back to life, on the mourning air.
Our silent house stood strong,
and healthy,
ticking away lonely hours and empty nights.
While I flinched from the glacial steppes,
of our marital bed.
DECIMA WRAXALL
Cerulean eyes, blue as glacial ice;
reflect the many facets of her soul.
And with her ebony locks dark as coal,
she's the key to unlocking paradise.
An Angel casting an aura of light,
her smile illuminates my heart and soul.
And for the very first time, I feel whole
as she squeezes and gently holds me tight.
She awakens me each day with a kiss
taunting me with her sensuality.
And turns my dreams into reality,
as only she can make me feel like this.
Above all, she chose me to be her man,
proclaiming her love is reserved for me.
And her unbridled sexuality;
arouses my heart as nothing else can.
GLACIAL TENACITY
crampons’ spikes clutch
the thick glacial ice -
pick ax chisels out steps
8/26/2017
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A glacial heaven on blue earth
Swaddled in blankets of crowned snow,
Suckling breast of my ancient birth
In mountain streams, bamboo trails flow.
When life’s finished, here I will lie,
To hear my ancestors’ lullaby.
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