POETRY
SERPENT SONG
Oh lord of serpents adisesha
Destroyer of all evils rampant
Radiance is thy noble name
Humble Salutations to your glorified fame
Krishna and Arjuna set Khandava ablaze
Destruction and devastation was only in sight
Many heart full of Kindness was an offering
Your birth in the sacred womb was a blessing
The making of a mother
The making of a sacred land
Your essence in the sacred room
A blessing and protection from doom
Vasuki, Naga Chamundi and Sarpa Yaskshi
Divinity who reside alongside you
On that refuge land which is sacred
On the refuge land that has cooled
Oh the glory of that mother
Who serves as high priestess of this land
Radiance is thy noble name
Humble Salutations to your glorified fame
THE GAZE
I gaze into the distance
Seeking the truth of life
Snippets of many an instance
Lay bare all in rife
Divine truth I seek
Of known pasts and unknown futures
The eyes all knowing
Far seeing and steadily showing
Of those dancing eyes and eyes that dance
Of stories embodied from sight to mind
Tales of now and then some of yore
Tangible in the body and so entwined
They come like fire fast approaching a forest
Encroaching my body to dance in earnest
Of people and places
Of the moon and many an embraces
A dancer, dances and stories to tell
A pair of eyes and a gaze into the distance
The spirit of dance now alive.
I wonder - what would I be without my eyes?
WOMAN
Fragile I may seem
But strength is my essence
I love freely and give lovingly
And my eyes shine brightly.
Breathe now. Look deeper.
Do you see the real me?
A wild, free spirited being
who chases her willow dreams?
The hair sparkles and smile beams
From too much loving.
Scars and wounds on my body
From fighting for my rights.
In silence sometimes I be
And that is not my fear.
A fight worthless deserves my rejection
Of all patronising patriarchal standards.
I am wild
Free spirited and deviant.
I am Woman.
I carry my own sword.
my soulmate
She rises like the sun
Resplendent and glorious
Graceful, lithe and luminous
My willow dreamy soulmate
Her body, wind-kissed and wet
Fragmented yet magnificently complete
Her murmuring shell, happiness infused
Contentment pulsing through her veins
My staggering thoughts she sees
And discerns the pulse of my rhythms
Songs of my soul she sings
And plays my heart with invisible strings
Her body greets mine
Entwining creeper like
I’ve known none other
Whose heart beats just like mine
My forever companion
A miraculous soft guiding light
My blooming flower and heartmate
Lovingly I caress and whisper her name - ’Dance’
ESSENCE
The unveiling of chaos
Silence revealed
Sustaining creation
Rhythm of the dance
Life. Living. Alive.
of i
The dances of past, present and future
Lives through I
The sacred spirit is I
All moments of transcendence is also I
The dance is I
The dancer is I
The soul dancing universal rhythms
Is the entirety of I
Haiku I
breath, me and rain song
a thousand little ripples
of water dance dreams