Posts tagged with "mother"

Hail Mother!

Sonnet — Daily Poetry for The Master of Works

November 29, 2023

The night is alive, the night is alive,A dire alarm seizes the senses five,The soul shudders in awed

Raudra Vira Bhayankara Bibhatsa Adbhuta night alive hail mother spirituality

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

Sringara Vira Bibhatsa Adbhuta tome lore verse mother word love spirituality

Beginnings

Poem — A Prayer to The Mother, on Day 2 of Navratri

March 23, 2023

Om.

Vira Bibhatsa Adbhuta swāha o thee hail mother spirituality

A Prelude

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

March 22, 2023

Om.

Sringara Vira Bibhatsa Adbhuta sanctify thee seat mother vision love spirituality

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

Mother of the Ages

Sonnet — An Invocation to The Mother

August 20, 2021

A stutter and lisp mar my speech,My heart’s utterance Thee can’t reach,Mind upon inconstant wheels t

Vira Bibhatsa Adbhuta mother thee thy ages heart love

To Them

Poem — An Collective Invocation to The Mother and The Master

June 25, 2021

A mother’s love is at birth of her sonYet a father’s eye is by deeds won,Maternal care extends throu

Sringara Vira Bibhatsa Adbhuta mother love son father eye spirituality

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

I Remember

Poem— An Collective Invocation to The Mother and The Master

May 10, 2021

Why O Mother must He cast me thus,Framing my days in His sullen mood?All my prone pleas do not impre

Vira Bibhatsa Adbhuta mother o home remember cast love

Meagre Offerings

Sonnet — A Collective Invocation to The Mother and The Master

April 30, 2021

Who inhabits this frame vacillating thus,Hobnobbing with delinquents, ruminating with sages?Wither t

Sringara Vira Bibhatsa Adbhuta meagre mother o love time

This Birth

Sonnet — An Invocation to The Mother

April 29, 2021

How many elements in my memory,Borne in bone remembrance of stone,In flesh are imprints of soil and

Vira Bibhatsa Adbhuta birth mother bear sun petal nature 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

Her Command

Poem — An Invocation to The Mother

April 23, 2021

Oh to be summoned awake by such a dawn,From the folds of night’s relapse releasedOnly to hear Her co

Vira Bibhatsa Adbhuta thy thou mother command oh nature love war spirituality time

Assault

Poem — An Invocation to The Mother

April 19, 2021

Apparatus have I noneOf thought or intelligence,Nor dexterity or contrivanceOf will or discriminatio

Vira Bibhatsa Adbhuta assault mother life

Annul

Sonnet — An Invocation to The Mother

April 18, 2021

How nobly thou speakest of ignoble sceptredHands? How deferent to cobblers of science?What lay faith

Vira Bhayankara Bibhatsa Adbhuta thy annul mother war

Dispel

Poem — An Invocation to The Mother

April 17, 2021

In this dream we often call lifeHas entered a spectre black strife.Mocking with fear our brightest t

Karuna Vira Bhayankara Bibhatsa Adbhuta mind dispel mother black thought nature

Her Grace

Poem — An Invocation to The Mother

April 16, 2021

Am now upon the great shores of timeWhere break the waves of passing hours,I hear its poignant music

Sringara Vira Bibhatsa Adbhuta thy force grace mother break love war

A Plea

Sonnet — An Invocation to The Mother

April 15, 2021

I scoured the thousand paths of thoughtAnd gathered a bough of many a mood,These as Garland I wove w

Vira Bibhatsa Adbhuta plea mother like world single love

Deliveress

Sonnet — An Invocation to The Mother

April 14, 2021

Oh how must I with tongue of clayPiously utter Thy solemn name,In what direction is Thy coming’s way

Vira Bibhatsa Adbhuta thy mother deliveress oh o nature

The Answer

Sonnet — An Invocation to The Mother

April 13, 2021

What apt gesture, what summoning hymn,Must I employ for Thy arrival imperial?What ardours rouse, Wha

Vira Bibhatsa Adbhuta thy mother o answer invocation war

Release For Us

Sonnet — An Invocation to The Mother

April 12, 2021

A strange shadow has creeping loomedBreeding fear under its canopy dark,A menace from yellow lands e

Vira Bhayankara Bibhatsa Adbhuta thy release mother shadow life nature