Posts tagged with "Karuna"

The Boon

Sonnet — Daily Poetry for The Master of Works

December 8, 2023

What is mine here to freely giveFor all was issued by a will unknown,Breath and body and senses five

Karuna Vira Bibhatsa Adbhuta boon breath purpose

Petulant Villain

Sonnet — Daily Poetry for The Master of Works

December 7, 2023

Treacherous are thy waters O time,Littered with murderous eddies of desireAnd storms of passion ruth

Sringara Karuna Vira Adbhuta thy thou petulant villain o love

Front Unguarded

Poem — Daily Poetry for The Master of Works

December 4, 2023

The woes of self come clustered or aloneLike a troop or a loner by honour bound,To hold them in abey

Karuna Vira Bhayankara Bibhatsa Adbhuta unguarde woe come

Our Sons

Sonnet — Daily Poetry for The Master of Works

December 1, 2023

What gluttony is thine O time,Gorging on our hero sons,A hundred hundred livesWhets not thy hungry w

Karuna Vira Bibhatsa Adbhuta thy o time hero son love

Omnipotent Beloved

Sonnet — Daily Poetry for The Master of Works

November 23, 2023

How many sneering hours are made my shareFrom the short lease lent in this dim hemisphere,How many c

Sringara Karuna Vira Bibhatsa Adbhuta omnipotent remain old thine love spirituality time

O Fire

Sonnet — Daily Poetry for The Master of Works

November 14, 2023

O Fire, poet primordial with pristine speech,Shepherding sacred words through mind and heartTo the k

Karuna Vira Bibhatsa Adbhuta o fire keen aspiration subtle love war time

Too Human

Sonnet — Daily Poetry for The Master of Works

March 6, 2023

Oh am not lettered in courtesies of the soul,Nor clothed in fineries of becomings true,Am barely a m

Sringara Karuna Vira Bibhatsa Adbhuta oh human courtesy soul nature love spirituality

Teach Us

Sonnet — Daily Poetry for The Master of Works

March 5, 2023

What trait of mind is it that gathersAround a sandgrain sign a calamity,Like an oyster of thought as

Karuna Vira Bibhatsa Adbhuta teach mind master sign like love

Shirk Not Us

Sonnet — Daily Poetry for The Master of Works

March 4, 2023

Oh am baffled by the manner of Thy merciesArriving garbed like to some crude ceremony,Ever in unfail

Karuna Vira Bibhatsa Adbhuta shirk thy arrive thine spirituality

Three Spears

Sonnet — Daily Poetry for The Master of Works

February 23, 2023

The first assault was with the spear of desireLeaping from fond faces and cherished bodies,From ever

Sringara Karuna Vira Bhayankara Bibhatsa Adbhuta assault like spear brood self love

Diminished

Sonnet — Daily Poetry for The Master of Works

February 19, 2023

Oh what a world is this,Daggered with pettiness and avariceMaiming unwary selves with hobbling wound

Sringara Karuna Vira Bibhatsa Adbhuta world oh diminish pettiness heart love time

Thy Mule

Sonnet — Daily Poetry for The Master of Works

February 15, 2023

I have borne the dull and the uneaseThat infest the twilight of a sleeping earth,I crawl through the

Karuna Vira Bhayankara Bibhatsa Adbhuta bear heart thy mule sleep nature love spirituality

Quantum of Mercy

Sonnet — Daily Poetry to The Master of Works

September 14, 2022

What scale measures the quantum of mercyThat in hourly alms is granted unto me?Whose the hand that c

Sringara Karuna Vira Bibhatsa Adbhuta quantum mercy daily love

Halt, Who Comes..

Sonnet — Daily Poetry to The Master of Works

August 25, 2022

Halt, who comes in moments smile bearing,A gaudy scent daubed for some low allure,Masking betrayals

Sringara Karuna Vira Bibhatsa Adbhuta halt come pleasure yield time

Black Name

Sonnet — Daily Poetry for The Master of Works

July 10, 2022

Who brings Thee daily odes whilst thronging the human roads,Gathering every stray wildflower idea to

Karuna Vira Bibhatsa Adbhuta thy thee shall black daily love spirituality time

Temperate Hells

Sonnet — Daily Poetry for The Master of Works

July 7, 2022

How sweetly settled were the years of lack,A mind with shuttered windows and doors,A belly that tack

Karuna Vira Bibhatsa Adbhuta temperate o thy suffer nature love death time

Mead

Sonnet — Daily Poetry for The Master of Works

July 3, 2022

What good is mead without heightened spiritIf amidst the pedestrian ways we must tread,Plodding thro

Karuna Vira Bibhatsa Adbhuta mead good daily mortal human spirituality

Plotter of Charades

Sonnet — Daily Poetry to The Master of Works

June 30, 2022

I’ll forego thee O dawn and all thy bright artistry,The busy hours that troop like waters downstream

Karuna Vira Bibhatsa Adbhuta o thy thee plotter charade spirituality

Feeble Penances

Sonnet — Daily Poetry to The Master of Works

June 24, 2022

Like baby priests the birdlings screechWith mouths agape their hungry prayer,A dissonant hymn hearts

Sringara Karuna Vira Bibhatsa Adbhuta feeble like prayer voice love

Hungry Gods

Sonnet — Daily Poetry to The Master of Works

June 23, 2022

Hard is the day when the altars go empty,No bright flame lights up Thy seated visage,Nor flowers and

Karuna Vira Bibhatsa Adbhuta hungry flame near nature spirituality

Another Day, Another Tale

Poem — An Invocation To The Master

June 16, 2022

In the worn out hamlet by the seasons batteredBy the living routine their forbearance dulled,An into

Karuna Vira Bibhatsa Adbhuta hamlet old thou thy new love

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