The Invisible Wall

She leaned once again

On the invisible wall

Gracefully tucked her polka dot shirt

Under her waistband

No pain, seen on her face

Her eyes talked beautifully

Lashes groomed themselves

She touched her soul

With her bare hand

She shrank slightly

In her visible self

And left her smile

In the mirror

Barbed Wire

The pattern on your forehead

Reminds me

Of the vague lines

I saw on the railway track

From miles away

In the foggy night

Like a tangled barbed wire

Your worries caught up

In the wrinkles all over your face

The lines are neither linear nor horizontal

But a new way of line

Which has not a beginning or end

And got tangled deeper and deeper

Hear What?

I hear people talking about
 weather, food, Cloth, Friday night party.
 But they didn’t hear the cries
 and about the self-immolations in the
 times of internet and fast growing technology.

Jamphel Yeshi passes away

Phayul[Wednesday, March 28, 2012 13:31] New Delhi, 28 March 2012: Jamphel Yeshi, 27 who set himself on fire on March 26 in an apparent protest against the continued Ch

inese occuation of Tibet in front of hundreds of Tibetans who had converged from all over India at Jantar mantar to protest Chinese President Hu Jintao’s visit breathed his last this morning. The doctors announced Jamphel Yeshi, clinically dead at 7:30 am(local time) today. Dhondup Lhadar, Vice-President, TYC said: "Martyr Jamphel Yeshi’s sacrifice will be written in golden letters in the annals of our freedom struggle. He will live on to inspire and encourage the future generations of Tibetans. The brilliant radiance of his fire will dispel the darkness of China's illegal occupation of Tibet and regenerate the spirit of Tibetan independence. "Martyr Thupten Ngodup was the first known Tibetan to have self-immolated in our freedom struggle during an indefinite hunger strike organised by TYC in New Delhi in 1998. In Tibet, since Martyr Tapey's self-immolation in 2009, 30 Tibetans have set their bodies on fire demanding the return of His Holiness the Dalai Lama and freedom for Tibet. Pawo Jamphel Yeshi's self-immolation marks a milestone in our freedom struggle where Tibetans inside and outside of Tibet stand ever united in our fights against the Chinese occupying forces." Jamphel Yeshi had suffered 98 per cent burn injuries to his body. Doctors had given him zero per cent of survival chance but Martyr Jamphel Yeshi’s heart fought against his body to survive the grueling pain. Jamphel Yeshi escaped to India in 2006 and studied at the Tibetan Transit School in Dharamshala for nearly three and a half years. A native of Kham Tawu, eastern Tibet, he had been living in Delhi for nearly two years now. The Tibetan Youth Congress will carry the body of Pawo Jamphel Yeshi to the Tibetan exile headquarters of Dharamshala and hold a grand funeral deserving of a martyr. He is survived by his mother and four siblings, all in Tibet. There have been 31 self immolations since 2009 and 23 have lost their lives.

Fire rages on: Tibetan monk dies in fiery protest

[Thursday, March 29, 2012 02:11] New Delhi, March 29: Even as news of Jamphel Yeshi's death began to spread around the world, another young Tibetan in the beleagured Ngaba region of Tibet passed away in a fiery protest on March 28. The exile base of Kirti monastery in Dharamshala said that Sherab, a 20-year-old monk set himself on fire in the main street of Cha township raising protests against the Chinese government. "At about 7.10 pm (local time) on March 28, Sherab, a 20 year old monk, set himself on fire in the main street of Cha township in Ngaba county, shouting protests against Chinese government repression," the release said. He died at the site of his protest. Chinese security personnel present at the scene forcibly removed his body, ignoring pleas of local Tibetans who wanted it to be returned to his family. "As soon as he died, local people were going to take his body away (for funeral), but armed police and other security forces arrived on the scene and forcibly removed the body, ignoring repeated pleas to hand it over to his family members," the release said. Sherab had become a monk at the Ganden Tenpeling monastery in Raruwa at the age of nine and joined Kirti monastery for higher studies last October. Sherab had returned to his home township from the Kirti monastery on March 26. "Immediately after the incident took place, armed police imposed a security clampdown on the township," the release said. Following the ongoing wave of self-immolations in Tibet and particularly in Ngaba, 300 Chinese government officials “of undisclosed position/rank” have been stationed at the Kirti monastery, and throughout Ngaba. This is the second self-immolation in Cha Township, this month. On March 5, an 18-year-old named Dorjee also set himself on fire and died in the township, which is around 70 km from Ngaba Town. 31 Tibetans have set their bodies on fire in Tibet since 2009 demanding the return of His Holiness the Dalai Lama from exile and freedom in Tibet. On March 26, Jamphel Yeshi, a 27-year-old Tibetan set his body on fire in front of hundreds of Tibetans gathered in New Delhi demanding international intervention in the ongoing crisis in Tibet and protesting Chinese President Hu Jintao's visit. Jamphel Yeshi passed away in the morning of March 28

Taste of Freedom

Sweet, sour
bitter, salty
i wonder
what it would be like
to taste
Freedom.