FREIBURGER ZEITGEISTLITERATURE (Satis Shroff)

HIMALAYA MICROPOEMS (Satis Shroff) I stay in my tent Dream of cherry blossoms And a blonde in kimono. * * * Lights flicker in Mahabharat mountains The air smells of rhododendrons The splendour of the Himalayas. * * *  HIMALAYA MICROPOEMS (Satis Shroff) The fishtailed one appears Gleaming in silvery moonshine Mirrored on placid Phewa lake. * * * Winter is here The magic of snowy landscape Out with the snowboots.   * * * Snowflakes falling from Heaven Frau Holle is dusting blankets Gott sei Dank my heater works * * * Clouds waltz in the sky Men are out to conquer The holy Himalayan peaks. * * * HIMALAYA MICROPOEMS (Satis Shroff) Sudden monsoon rain Soaks the mountainside A landslide causes screams of agony. * * * Baptism of monsoon A landslide washed the road away Groping and cursing uphill as a child. * * * The large ice chunks leap Crash upon the fragile tents The base camp's a crevice. * * * Snow in my tent ...

HIMALAYA MICROPOEMS (Satis Shroff) I stay in my tent Dream of cherry blossoms And a blonde in kimono. * * * Lights flicker in Mahabharat mountains The air smells of rhododendrons The splendour of the Himalayas. * * *  I stay in my tent Dream of cherry blossoms And a blonde in kimono. * * * HIMALAYA MICROPOEMS (Satis Shroff) The fishtailed one appears Gleaming in silvery moonshine Mirrored on placid Phewa lake. * * * Winter is here The magic of snowy landscape Out with the snowboots.   * * * Snowflakes falling from Heaven Frau Holle is dusting blankets Gott sei Dank my heater works * * * Clouds waltz in the sky Men are out to conquer The holy Himalayan peaks. * * * HIMALAYA MICROPOEMS (Satis Shroff) Sudden monsoon rain Soaks the mountainside A landslide causes screams of agony. * * * Baptism of monsoon A landslide washed the road away Groping and cursing uphill as a child. * * * The large ice chunks leap C...

THE TIBETAN PRAYER WHEEL (Satis Shroff) (Subtitle: O, cry with me) Adieu winter, The signs of growth are here, Between sunshine and rain. There’s a subtle greening everywhere. People work line bees, Cutting and pruning weeds Using their ancient hoes To plough the terraces The joy that plants have survived Beneath the deadwood. There’s optimism in the air And with it hope, When crocuses rear their heads. Lovely lupins, delphiniums and daffodils, In the meadows of the Himalayas. People are bathing in the tributaries of holy rivers, Chanting vedic hymns. Those who have lost their mothers, Remember them through rites, Followed by a bath in the river Matatirtha. The sound of thundering hoofs in Tudikhel, In the heart of Catmandu. Snorting and foaming horses, And cheering Nepalese. Spectators who watch the great chariots Of Bhairawa and Bhadrakali. The joy of the fresh air, In the tranquility of the blue Mahabharat hills...

HIMALAYAN LOVE STORY (Satis Shroff) Andrea Zimmermann, a young, blonde Swiss lady and Nepalese fiancee Norbu Sherpa wanted to climb the Chomolungma, as Everest is called by the Buddhists in Nepal and Tibet. Suddenly the earth moved. The two love each other since 2011 and are also rather business-minded. They run a trekking-agency in Nepal and Switzerland. This April there were underway to Everest when the earthquake began rumbling. Andrea and Norbu were in the Sagarmatha area, when the earth began to move. They were only three kilometres away from the eipcentre, near Sindhupalchowk and Gorka. What did they do? The ran to a small village in the vicinity. Everyone in the village was in panic and the people, both Nepalese and foreigners ran out of the houses. As the buildings came tumbling down many people were injured and dead. A woman even gave birth to a child that night. Although they have a house in Kathmandu, Andrea and Norbu live in...

Oh, LANGTANG (Satis Shroff) Langtang Valley can be reached from Kathmandu by traversing along the Trisuli river valley and further to small picturesque Nepalese hamlets such as: Betrawati, Dharapani, Ramche, Thare, Bokejhung, Bhrugu, Munga and finally Syabrubensi, for where the Langtang Valley begins. Most of the trekkers head for the village of Langtang, which lies at an elevation of 3,500m, and another village is Kyanjing (3,850m). These two villages lie in a wide arid valley, and has woodland and meadows: a trekker's paradise. Ghopte Gosainkunda Lake, Lauribinayak Pass Shin Gomba (monastery) But at the moment the beautiful Valley and town of Langtang lies under 10,000 tonnes of snow, earth and stones that have rolled down. 'Langtang Valley is no longer what it was and doesn't exist,' according to Tulsi Prasad Gautam, chief of tourism in Kathmandu. In the middle of the valley lay the village of Langtang. ...