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.
