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Yagña
February 7, 2021
Yagña
Sonnet
Many are the rites of observances I hold
By strict grammars of speech and gesture,
All by the acute eye of will are beheld,
All enacted in the body my soulâs vesture.
The dusk giveth pause to this rite elaborate,
I must recount my remisses to retreating sun,
By night I review my members yet incomplete
To purge old fidelities and bind them to unison.
The bold occult Yagña resumes again at dawn,
I marshal all parts to theme of dayâs sacrifice.
My lips are rapt in trance of litanies to summon
The Word of power that transforms in a trice.
Labour, labour O mortal beneath the silent star,
By such actions is thy beloved Sire made near.*
*Oh the prices we pay to faintly proximate a Seer,
Yet by our Sire we inch close to that sphere.
O Unfathomable
June 27, 2021
O Unfathomable
PoemâââAn Invocation to The Master #51
A strange Divine hath my heart chosen
Who forever upends my seeking prayer,
For all fruits I yield suffer inversion,
In seeking heaven I earned new mire!
Knowledge I sought to dazzle men,
Pursued tomes with zest and vigour,
Yet each page turned left me barren,
My mind stands like a hermit bare.
Speech I sought to dispense wisdom,
Words like deities to confer meaning,
Yet tongue is possessed by a mood glum
For a will hath barred all its voicing.
Power I sought for lasting deeds,
Deeds that outlast a human span,
Yet I grow into subtler incapacities,
I become all the debilitations of man.
Love I sought, the heady brew
That intoxicates heart with nectar,
Its fire so constant, its fire so true
Now mourns each felled desire.
What purpose for Thee my barren shell,
Only Thou doth know, O Will unfathomable!