Magical Laddakh

Ladakh through it's quietude casts a spell

Courtesy it's unique beauty, it does dispel

The constrictive feel of cities and towns

Making buoyant smiles replace the baffled frowns

The landscape diversity at such a height

Has mountains, lakes, rivers and desert that add on to one's delight

The ever changing colours of the Ladakhi horizon

Are balanced well by the polychromatic prayer flags in every passing season

Here, bathed in white snow, the mountainuos heights shimmer

The serenity of the place mesmerizes one and makes one quiver

At times the whining gales raise clouds of silvery sand 

That encompass the greens interspersed in the brownish desert grand

The 'mani' wheels spin to the tunes of the devotee's prayer

Decorated stupas transfix one's sight by their sparkling glare

All in unison stimulate the senses and leave one enthralled

To understand the truth that resonated in Budha's divine call

He pronounced that life is magical 

And it is upto oneself to make it so

For dispelling the 'dukkh'(sadness) that surrounds one

One has to train self to enjoy the life's magical flow

© Dr Archana Tandon