Алакананда («радующая алаков») - река в Гималаях. Одна...

Alakananda ("pleasing the alaks")
- a river in the Himalayas. One of the four rivers
forming the great river of India - the Ganges.

ALAKANANDA

Here in the heavenly palaces
the secret marked life.
Silence is everywhere, so that
people looked up.
The river flows from there
clean as a tear;
color, akin to an emerald,
sound - almost a thunderstorm.

All Himalayan Trails
hidden in the stone fields.
Oblivion is everywhere, so that
the earth was accumulating strength.
The bell beats inaudibly
the wind whistles in my ears.
The traveler left the ashram,
I went to the river slowly.

And on the ledge by the statues
began his prayer.
Stand up for good, stand up -
I'm already standing with you!
There, in the incense smoke,
woman looks from canvas.
Strange ringing name
his lips whisper.

His clothes smell
sweet sandalwood of dreams.
Dreams that are endless like the sky
dreams, which is more visible than the ridges ...
Rice and mango grows somewhere.
Somewhere the beeps of cars
here is the Alakananda river
descends as a goddess from the peaks.

Through legends and mantras
from the sky of human dreams
Gange Alakananda
the everlasting call:
become full and tender,
the land giving life
from the endless silence,
from the height down!

February 2010.
Vladimir Ballada Yukhno