Posts tagged with "Sringara"

This Day

This Day

Sonnet — Daily Poetry for The Master of Works

December 9, 2023

This day my wondrous sun withdrewBehind this clay-wrought grosser sheath,A world of pliant matter he

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Petulant Villain

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

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Immortal Eyes

Immortal Eyes

Sonnet — Daily Poetry for The Master of Works

December 3, 2023

Why dost Thou employ beauty’s rhetoricOn my feeble person so easily swayed,Smiling ever so slyly fro

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Omnipotent Beloved

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

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Censure

Censure

Sonnet — Daily Poetry for The Master of Works

November 21, 2023

A drowsy slow sun clambers the horizonAnd from disarrayed sky casts eye sullenly,From start of wakin

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Pale Worship

Pale Worship

Poem — Poetry for The Mother

November 17, 2023

A toddler’s babbles must serve for hymnsAnd fumbling gestures stand for high sacrifice,A prone mind’

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Careless Glory

Careless Glory

Sonnet — Daily Poetry for The Master of Works

November 12, 2023

How many banners raised on spires of thoughtTo blazon Thy name through changing climes,With how many

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Tome & Lore & Verse

Tome & Lore & Verse

Sonnet — A Prayer to The Mother, on Day 3 of Navratri

March 24, 2023

How many tomes have I perused,Scouring word and page for a clueFrom pile of words to dig and findThe

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A Prelude

A Prelude

Poem — A Prayer to The Mother, on Day 1 of Navratri

March 22, 2023

Om.

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These Flames

These Flames

Sonnet — Daily Poetry for The Master of Works

March 21, 2023

And what then, what if Thou didst annulThe brief circuit of long-sought pilgrimage,Rendered our daem

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Thy Love

Thy Love

Sonnet — Daily Poetry for The Master of Works

March 18, 2023

Does it singe Thee, the passions fieryThat slip restraint in severe summer sun?The flame-hounds that

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Spare Thee

Spare Thee

Sonnet — Daily Poetry for The Master of Works

March 17, 2023

Make me no more chronicler of Thy cycles,Standing on a turret within and watchingThe drama of siege

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Lasso

Lasso

Sonnet — Daily Poetry for The Master of Works

March 12, 2023

Ah Beloved, without mirth and passionately crude,Arriving with hundred unkempt strains of ardour,Lik

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Unequal Passions

Unequal Passions

Sonnet — Daily Poetry for The Master of Works

March 8, 2023

A precipitous fall into the fields of beingThrough jagged channels of mortal birth,To emerge helples

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Too Human

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

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I Am Free

I Am Free

Poem — Daily Poetry for The Master of Works

February 26, 2023

I am free, I am free,Absolved of intent and ambition,They egg me no longer into action,I merely am,

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Three Spears

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

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Being & Becoming

Being & Becoming

Sonnet — Daily Poetry for The Master of Works

February 22, 2023

A tardy birth in the pale of dawnAnd a weary end in folds of sleep,Two extents twixt all that is und

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Diminished

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

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Am Bereft

Am Bereft

Sonnet — Daily Poetry for The Master of Works

February 16, 2023

I hoped to craft Thee a brilliant odeFull of beauty and delicate subtlety,Mined from deepest recesse

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None Can

None Can

Poem — Daily Poetry for The Master of Works

December 17, 2022

Oh I have despaired at Thy building spree,The many hells Thou hast planted in dream and reverie,My w

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