In the Valley of Flowers, Himalayas

A poem

In the fields of heaven there are many scent-mansions — pollen-glued calyx and corolla black bees gorging on fleece-flowers primulas whorl indigo weapons to stun the eyes — galaxies of seed-pearls frosting leaves with silver anemones frost asters’ white snow — the anaphalis fritillarias hanging angelus heads into pink oblivion along the Pushpawati River —

here also are marsh marigolds rhubarb and rock orchids balsam lady slippers bladder campions delicately veined blue gentian ear-studs fickleness of larkspurs arum the cobra lily poised to strike an ankle in jest and those lingularias — yellow bottle rockets ready to launch calendula carpets saxifrage the stonebreaker lily-of-the-valley’s bell drop music butterflies and butterflies here come the happiness tears and my overwhelmed nose — cognoscenti of the now

A Literary Impulse & Paper Poetry “Eudaemonia” Prompt Submission

Eudaimonia, Literary Impulse, Poetry, Spirituality, India, photography, Himalaya, trekking, mountains, flower

Chris Mooney-Singh: Australian by birth, Sikh by choice, writer by compulsion, his last poetry collection was The Bearded Chameleon. His fiction has appeared in The Best Asia Speculative Fiction and Crime Scene: Singapore. His most recent short film Looking for Mr Gelam was released in Jan 2021. See his website and meet him on Medium.

Inviting other writers to Literary Impulse: Matt Lillywhite, Hope Coalesce, Elisabeth Khan, Holly Jahangiri, Suntonu Badhra, Somsubhra Banerjee, Priyanka Srivastava, Vivian

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