Posts tagged with "fire"

O Fire

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

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Fire-Bloom

Fire-Bloom

Poem — Daily Poetry to The Master of Works

June 29, 2022

Gracious is the lease of a new dayAnd use of limbs from ill revived,The founts of my muse barren sta

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Toddler

Toddler

Sonnet — An Invocation to the Master

April 14, 2022

Oh to what end wilt Thou tax my brainDull as I am to climb the lofty heightsOf Thy philosophy and mo

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Beloved

Beloved

Sonnet — An Invocation to the Master

February 25, 2022

Must we meet thus in a cloistered hourLike estranged lovers of charred hearts,Mine yet spilling word

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Fire

Fire

Sonnet-An Invocation to the Master

January 24, 2022

What fire hast Thou lit withinThat burns every savour in everything?It leaves but a patina thinAnd a

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Human Tale

Human Tale

Sonnet — An Invocation to The Master

December 10, 2021

How many cauldrons bubble in manOf hope and passion and rancour,How many fires these to sustain,Oh h

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Fidelity

Fidelity

Sonnet — An Invocation to The Master

November 2, 2021

How famished is the clay-flesh with life infused,Devouring will-fire galore like the utter night?How

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Fire-Bird

Fire-Bird

Sonnet

July 12, 2021

A lonely tree is the body of me,Unperched by radiant thoughts that flyThrough the ether that none ca

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Onward Paths

Onward Paths

Sonnet — An Invocation to The Master

July 7, 2021

The many protocols of observance,Of ritual and gesture deep nuanced,For apt action the rules remembe

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Now And Hereafter

Now And Hereafter

Sonnet — An Invocation to The Master

June 23, 2021

How many fires my mind has lit,Vacillations endured by will and grit?How many have flamed and passed

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The Merchant

The Merchant

Poem — Part 1

June 17, 2021

A merchant I once did come aboutOn fruitless tracks of the world’s circuit.Tired of men and their wa

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Mirror Thy Dreams

Mirror Thy Dreams

Poem — An Invocation to The Master

June 16, 2021

My silence hath a million tongues,Upon each a limpid fire doth burn,Every flame-limb for Thee dances

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Stir The Fires

Stir The Fires

Sonnet

February 23, 2021

How many climes wilt Thou infuse in a human day,Between bounds of dawn and dusk ever driftingLike bl

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Yagña’s Device

Yagña’s Device

Sonnet

February 17, 2021

A thousand fires clamour in me, each a flame torchOf will dipped in burning splendour of the spirit,

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Worship

Worship

A Sonnet

April 20, 2019

It burns in me now, that fire of old.The query and quest without name,An urge and ardour that goes n

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All He Makes

All He Makes

A Sonnet

October 18, 2018

It burns in me now, O Forefathers ancientThe fires you kindled by Ganga’s waters ardent,Billowing an

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O Fire

O Fire

A Sonnet

October 13, 2018

Hush now feeble flame I shall feed thee yetHere are my desires and all I did beget.Thou must devour

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To Agni

To Agni

A Sonnet of Supplication

January 19, 2018

Our combined parts in pell-mellA dissonant story does tell.A wayward motion without purposeOnly a wr

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Krishna in the Physical

Krishna in the Physical

A Sonnet

November 25, 2017

The night is grim and the assaults realGrim hosts march on my corporeal.Am bereft of method, all mem

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Four Fires

Four Fires

A Poem

October 22, 2017

Four were the fires that burned in meSince birth, by culture in varying intensity.Knowledge dim and

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A Prayer

A Prayer

A Poem

October 5, 2017

Foster us O Mother, nurture us trueWean us from this narrow groove.

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