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Winter Stars
When the monsoon's done with ocean's lores
and mountains don't feel cold any more
For the blanket of snow glows warm and soft
and rivers now flow so light, so loft
the wheels of iron they rotate no more;
an entire nation sheds its load.
From the mountain hut a maiden emerges
beyond the lake and Druk Xo's gorges
Under the tree (now centuries old)
she comes and lights a sun of gold
and children come and hear their tales
how once a light from heavens fell
though they don't get what man has etched
they will read what the stars sketch
and in this night, so warm and bright
when times have written their faces alight
Faraway travellers on land see stars-
and how they wonder, what we are.
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All electricity in my country comes from hydropower. In winter, since the water flow substantially decreases, our electricity production goes down and we have power cuts. Ths poem is about the spiritual awakening that this darkness has invoked upon the people.