Posts tagged with "death"

Grammar of Grief

Sonnet — Daily Poetry to The Master of Works

October 10, 2022

“No more”, cried I, “no more to learn from lips all mortal,Grant me great Mother, grant me the One,

Vira Bibhatsa Adbhuta thee thou say mother sire love spirituality death

Lone Bird

Sonnet — Daily Poetry for The Master of Works

July 19, 2022

Did I in some age long gone undone leaveSome grave penance to Thee foreswornThat Thou must such hars

Vira Bibhatsa Adbhuta lone bird creditcopytext thou besiege nature death

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

Much Too Generous

Sonnet — An Invocation To The Master

June 8, 2022

Oh much too generous are Thy graces,The gifts unending plied on my beingThrough a dolours procession

Sringara Karuna Vira Bibhatsa Adbhuta generous oh thy grace affront death

Memory’s Ghost

Poem — An Invocation To The Master

June 3, 2022

From cavern tombs of memory something stirred,Where ere long resided the dead and the forgottenOf ma

Sringara Karuna Vira Bibhatsa Adbhuta thy ghost tear anguish memory nature love spirituality death time

Typal Trials

Sonnet — An Invocation to the Master

May 9, 2022

How gravely the dawn didst greetThe waking eye with news of loss,Gone a clause of the mortal contrac

Karuna Vira Bibhatsa Adbhuta typal death time

Process

Sonnet — An Invocation to the Master

March 25, 2022

How many selves yet remain to burn awayIn the pittance of a single self name bound,I wake to death o

Vira Bibhatsa Adbhuta thy process self constant war spirituality death

Pith & Grain

Poem — An Invocation to the Master

March 6, 2022

Oh how poorly effulgent is Knowledge’s Sun,A mere million rays cast out in profuse vanity,All petty

Sringara Vira Bibhatsa Adbhuta oh pith grain mind sense nature love spirituality death

A Dream

Poem — An Invocation to The Master

December 16, 2021

An old dawn climbed the steep horizonSlowly with ancient weary ray-limbs,Far below upon earth yet to

Vira Bibhatsa Adbhuta soul thy water thou dream love spirituality death

Ephemeral Quill

Sonnet — An Invocation to The Master

November 16, 2021

What is this then, this flesh draped frame,Basis of becoming and bearing a name?A versatile womb to

Sringara Karuna Vira Adbhuta ephemeral quill bear life love spirituality death time

Lila

Sonnet — An Invocation to The Master

November 4, 2021

A daily festival erupts in my mindTo honour the muses who ferry me far,No limit is therein, no quest

Raudra Vira Bibhatsa Adbhuta lila love spirituality death

At Her Feet

A Sonnet

September 29, 2021

And thus hast thou culled one more flowerFor thy grim black ceremony O death,Battling one small life

Vira Bibhatsa Adbhuta thy thou o death life nature love war spirituality

O Time

Poem — An Invocation to The Master

September 14, 2021

What change of heart impels thee O Time,Where gone thy menacing visage gory,Lost thy vehemence and p

Vira Bibhatsa Adbhuta thy o thee time soul love war spirituality death time

O Father

Poem — An Invocation to The Master

August 3, 2021

How many births have been mine,Birthing into this little life’s prison,Enduring unending penalty of

Raudra Vira Bibhatsa Adbhuta thy birth o father being war spirituality death time

Sojourns

Poem

March 10, 2021

Of all the sojourns with Thee O earth, in this thou hath grown fondest,Though harsh was thy dealings

Karuna Vira Bhayankara Bibhatsa Adbhuta thy thou sojourn know dear love death time

Rainbow Bridge

Sonnet

February 14, 2021

How abrupt are all the yogas of oldInciting the mind to turn upon itselfOr reining breath to rhythmi

Vira Bibhatsa Adbhuta rainbow bridge mind breath time spirituality death

Sombre Moon

Poem

December 12, 2020

In a mystic terrain of twilight I wanderedPossessed by a muse’s pondering impulseInto a magic wood o

Karuna Vira Bibhatsa Adbhuta moon old pool thou gaze nature love spirituality death time

Story Teller

Sonnet

October 25, 2020

I once ventured in the amber groves of memoryReviewing the embattled journey of my story.Such rich f

Karuna Vira Bibhatsa Adbhuta story teller find moment spirituality death time

Three Perfections

Sonnet

October 20, 2020

A perfect poise to him chiefly in the bodyIs in groan of muscle and stretching nerve sinewy.In propo

Sringara Karuna Vira Bibhatsa Adbhuta perfect chiefly perfection body shape spirituality death

Body

Sonnet

October 7, 2020

Not mine the surge and wash of energiesOr the restless quiver that blindly excites.Not mine the glut

Sringara Vira Bibhatsa Adbhuta body force muse love death time

Whosoever Thou Art

Poem

September 16, 2020

Whose knock heard I on my doors of dream,Whose hand coloured those image’s stream,Who loomed in rous

Vira Bibhatsa Adbhuta whosoever thou art thought life spirituality death