Love and lust,
one the same,
Sringara
Cauldron’s boil,
Temper’s spill
Ravdra
Mourning with
Compassionate arms
Karuna
Dark passages persist
Monsters linger depths
unknown
Bhayanaka
Vile tumult’s rise within
Nausea paint’s a grimace
flush to skin
Bibhasta
Vigor tango’s vis-à-vis,
As heroes call deafens
doubt
Vira
Laughter wells eyes in joy
While ridicule enlists the
salt therein
Hasya
A first skyline exposed
To an unsuspecting glance
Adbhuta
Halcyon, charming wind and
wave
Spreads calm unto horizons
far
Santa
Spatiality gathers sheaf’s
abundant.
Place procures fields for harvest’s
green
Rasa awakens
A centrality of energy
Engages physicality’s line
Sushumna, gravity breathes
Shape-shifting altruisms
bend perception taut
Aligning eternal stage, set
for actor and audience alike
Herein resides the locus of
Rasa
Unlocking sensorial
rhythm’s
Brandishing pleasures
unbeknownst to hue
Permanence abides the
spindle’s truth
Weaving abhinaya
Emotions are evoked,
Accessed, then tasted true
Rasa’s essence aspires unto
Boundaries shared in man
Even breath alone can
balance
The humors of flesh
Cloth of table spans word
and sight
Preparing for presentations
feast
It is known Sthayi bhavas
Will
appear once taste’s expression
Overflows;
generating
enactment
of the nine
I hope everyone had a great New Years and will carry that greatness throughout the upcoming year and beyond. With each new year that comes, new hope spins it's web, and sorrow hopefully remains in the past. Poetry is a way that man can grasp hold of emotion and paint it into a tapestry to wear the entirety of the upcoming year and beyond. So, how perfect is it that 2013 opens up on a Tuesday. Tuesdays and poetry have become synonymous and lets all go celebrate our poetry together over at D'Verse, where Open Link Night, fittingly kicks off the New Year right.
I could see the undulating arms and enticing hips of the Bharatanatyam dancer: ek, do, tin ....
ReplyDeleteThe enactment of our flowing emotions - trying to stablize at any moment to perfectly perform.
Well, Fred, I will say that there are a lot of words in this poem that I don't understand, so it is difficult for me to respond to the message of the poem. But I would like to wish you a very Happy New Year & a good writing year ahead!
ReplyDeletenice...i like the short stanzas...each one is rather like a haiku and makes you pause to think on it....the breathe balance one...and the mourning in compassionate arms ones are my favs...and thanks for your thoughts as well on the issue at my place...i think conversation on this topic is def what we need...we can not ignore it...
ReplyDeleteLots of words i never knew, like the agic weaved in, as the imagery comes due. hope a happy new year is had at your pad, and fitting indeed that it should land on a tuesday as well.
ReplyDeletevery cool...is that indian language...?
ReplyDeletei'm just amazed that they have one expression to capture a complex feeling.... my fav is...A first skyline exposed
To an unsuspecting glance
Adbhuta
Hey Fred
ReplyDeletehappy New Year and you're right this is a great way to start 2013: with poetry amongst friends!
I can definitely feel philosophical/spiritual vibe and motion driving this piece . . F
A centrality of energy
Engages physicality’s line
Sushumna, gravity breathes
Shape-shifting altruisms bend perception taut
Aligning eternal stage, set for actor and audience alike
Herein resides the locus of Rasa
although I am not completely clued up with the spiritual side of things, I can certainly feel
something of your idea, enough to appreciate
your flow and Mojo
all the best Fred!
Yes, poetry (or any art form) can and should evoke all of these. Excellent, deep, spiritual piece here, I'm especially fond of Karuna!
ReplyDeleteI like the flow and the visuals although I didn't understand a lot of it either. Are these Indian gods? An interesting write :)
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