Poetry Collection
Verses on spirit, silence & the infinite
Divine Muse
Bundled sheafs that bear Thy lightAre piercing rays, luminous and bright.As an alchemist brews his m
The Contract
How art Thou so high and adamant?Suffusing life with clamour and yet silent!Mute to our toils, not e
The Return
Lo, he is slain now, Rakshasa ten-headedBy Shiva’s boon a demi-urge the god’s dreaded.On that field
Twin-Divine
Mother Master, our Twin-DivineArchitects of our Yoga beyond Time.Transform us whole from head to toe
Exile
Ayodhya is no place for Thee O RamaKeeper of promise of thy sire Dasaratha.Bearing thy share of fate
Shiva
Austere, Immense and Mystic-BareAloof, Ancient and atop the world-stair.Night-draped, Lord of goblin
Guru
Master, Teacher and eternal FriendThou the emissary from the beyond.My deeps thou hast peered throug
Beyond the Animal
Lo, by these winding roads have begunThe journey ancient to the One.Numberless lives this secret rem
Rādhā’s Lament
By winding Yamuna’s banks by a treeSat Rādhā, eyes down, resting chin on knee.
The Pygmy Mind
The modern intellect, unwise and untemperedWith its theories all mind invented.Pronounce their claim
A Prayer
Foster us O Mother, nurture us trueWean us from this narrow groove.
Bhoga
Every pebble on every shoreNot a stranger to us anymore.In each line on a stranger’s faceWe find clu
Churn
This the game and the wager eternalBody and Soul as seat for an Elixir immortal.Arrayed the denizens
O Krishna
Krishna, O Krishna, Lord of the AzureBeloved of Gopis and every heart pure.Am now shorn of deviant g
Vow
In another clime I was seated before youAwaiting Thy word, a fiat of Thy will.Aching, willing and my
Inner Guide
O Thou who lured me by shining verseWho packed all meaning in syllables terse.Like a firefly to Thy
Surrender
Here to clutch, there to let goMorals are half-blind, little do they know.The bumbling mind and its
Mardini
Once again comes the demon willLured by shades of every perverse thrill.Coarse, obtuse and an adaman
Her Chalice
My body is a chalice nowNo more a clutch of bone and sinew.Much that grates has now erodedNot mine t
Mother Paramé
Each strengthening each they wereMy house a prison, my kingdom bare.All I gathered have now fallen a
Kāli
O Thou Armed Night, Executrix and Mother dire Goddess of destruction and an eternal fire.