Posts tagged with "earth"

Am Stung

Sonnet — Daily Poetry for The Master of Works

November 19, 2022

My virtues were brief and vices enduringThe tumult of my deeds sowed ruinous seeds,From earth clime

Vira Bibhatsa Adbhuta thou god art earth heaven nature love war spirituality time

O Earth

Sonnet — An Invocation to The Master

December 23, 2021

What hast thou fostered O earthThy snows all cold and reluctant,Thy deserts harsh and without mirthA

Sringara Karuna Vira Adbhuta thy o earth thou happy love

Radiant Ode

Sonnet — An Invocation to The Master

December 13, 2021

How many selves do in a body hide,Dire and dumb and naively noble,How many kneadings to surely mould

Sringara Vira Bibhatsa Adbhuta radiant ode body hide earth nature spirituality

Our Fates

Poem — An Invocation to The Master

November 11, 2021

How coarse is Thy breath as the wind,Rude all Thy moods in the storm,In Thy earth confounding errors

Vira Bibhatsa Adbhuta thy thou fate earth error nature spirituality time

Krishna In Gold

Poem — An Invocation to The Master

November 5, 2021

I have seen them march, grim armies that a halo wear,Lead by a form whose brows the clouds did smear

Sringara Vira Bibhatsa Adbhuta thy shall krishna black earth nature love spirituality time

Reprieve

Sonnet — An Invocation to The Master

October 28, 2021

Of all Thy makings that I grow into likeness ofWhy chosest Thou the clod dumb and dull,Or like bare

Vira Bibhatsa Adbhuta thy reprieve earth nature

Parley

Sonnet — An Invocation to The Master

September 28, 2021

Wherefore this encumbrance of a nameAnd a brief interlude of body separate,Wither these cycles that

Vira Bibhatsa Adbhuta parley soul earth spirituality time

O Dawn

Sonnet — An Invocation to The Master

August 15, 2021

Today O Dawn, thou shalt not be nameless,For thou doth mark the moment through agesWhen vain recurri

Vira Bibhatsa Adbhuta o dawn thou earth destiny nature time

Forever Radiant

Sonnet — An Invocation to The Master

May 17, 2021

All mine gushings petered to slender brook,The strong passions whittled to single intent,Like a pott

Sringara Vira Bibhatsa Adbhuta thy forever radiant like earth love spirituality time

This Earth

Sonnet — An Invocation to The Mother

May 15, 2021

On an unmanned cradle of silent spaceDrifted my earth to reason abandoned.A djinn of science and his

Vira Bhayankara Bibhatsa Adbhuta earth thy mother cradle nightmare spirituality time

Earth Awaits

Poem — An Invocation to The Mother

April 24, 2021

Halt awhile O splendid museToday thy overtures I must refuse,For thou must for me ferryThis plea to

Sringara Vira Bibhatsa Adbhuta thy earth await mother o love

Mission

Poem — An Invocation to The Mother

April 22, 2021

“Who art thou casting whispers to wind,Seeding strange gestures in each hour,Who seekest in upward g

Vira Bibhatsa Adbhuta thy daily earth like o nature war time

No More Homeless

Sonnet

March 19, 2021

A hundred ballads I wrote ere the break of dawn,Each a new melody to shame the coel’s song.A thousan

Vira Bibhatsa Adbhuta homeless earth heart nature love spirituality

This Thine Earth

Sonnet

February 25, 2021

This Thine earth, deplorable and magnificent in turns swift,The life within that follows this fatal

Sringara Karuna Raudra Vira Adbhuta wither thine earth thy nature love

Oath

Poem

January 27, 2021

The forest of self is all swept away,Trounced by an orange flaming will-forceGutted and blackened to

Vira Bhayankara Bibhatsa Adbhuta earth cherub tell oath story nature war spirituality

Émigré

Sonnet

January 20, 2021

I am an émigré from a sun afar,Here upon a green globe my habitat,Attired in earth-formed robe for a

Vira Bibhatsa Adbhuta émigré earth light nature spirituality

O Body

Sonnet

January 5, 2021

O body, earth-flower grown most intricate,Raised from soil thy flesh grown consciousBy rhythmic brea

Vira Bibhatsa Adbhuta thy o body earth moment nature spirituality time

O Earth

Poem

December 30, 2020

Not for thy verdant beauty I loved,Nor thy rich moist valley sprawl,Nor the happy heart of coel’s ca

Sringara Vira Bibhatsa Adbhuta thy thee love o earth nature love

Birth

Sonnet

September 10, 2020

Upon a forlorn earth’s closing of an ageA clutch of heroes maligned power with rage.A schism split e

Karuna Raudra Vira Adbhuta earth birth age dharma cell

Earth and Sky

Poem

July 11, 2020

A sky-topped chamber upheld by mighty columnsBy sky-bearing oaks, their heads stoopedIn reverence fo

Sringara Vira Bibhatsa Adbhuta earth sky like arm air nature love spirituality

Body’s Prayer

A Sonnet

June 22, 2020

This body is my earth,I till its soil by my works,My breath is the season’s winds,And my mind the sk

Vira Bibhatsa Adbhuta body earth o painting priti nature love spirituality time