VARMA, Mahadevi
Why an introduction dear
Why an introduction dear, you are within me,
reflections on starry nights, memories of a life,
eyes notice creations of life in short spells,
eyes notice gentle footsteps!
I don't much to treasure anymore,
you are the treasure I have in me.
Your dazzling, radiant smile like sunrise
Is the reflection of fragrant sorrow,
it is consciousness, and dreamy slumber,
Let me tire and sleep incessantly, for
Would I understand the creation, big-bang! !
You are drawn, I am just an outline,
you are the sweet melody, I am just a string of notes,
you are limitless, I am but an illusion of limits,
In the secrecy of real image-reflection,
why enact to be lovers! ! !
Beyond
The pitch-black surrounds
As dense clouds abound;
Impetuous winds come again
Shaking earths deep grain;
The howling sea’s respond,
But who will reach beyond?
Waves rise high on cliffs
Creating a celestial uplift,
A relentless foamy sigh
Mocks boats riding high;
Oar and hand do not bond,
But who will reach beyond?
In absorbing the little boats
Grand waters keep us afloat;
Seeing endless black oceans
Courage diminishes in motion!
The boundless waves surround,
But who will reach beyond?
In quenching the stars light
Dim hopes fade with the night;
Twilight readies her black cloth
With her Desire-Flowers troth;
Pilot’s stuck in what’s around,
But who will reach beyond?
Beyond, I’m told, on that side
A golden hopeful world resides,
Where birds laugh out loud
On hearing of deaths cloud!
A radiance in earth’s ground
But who will reach beyond?
Where mute songs of fountains
Play eternal music to mountains;
And skies blow an endless chord
Striking strings with her reward;
With a limitless love now found
But who will reach beyond?
Shaping divine smiles in flowers
Sacrificial tones on wind showers;
Celestial magnificence delights
Caressing our faded shining lights;
How can we with this world bond!
And who will reach beyond?
Who can play with great dignity
Melodious tunes of her divinity?
And bring the boats from the sea
And carry her words home to thee;
Immersion is how pilots respond
Who in her love reach beyond.
My Aspirations
Covered eyelid dreams
Helps sleepy skies pain,
In silently pouring drops
Is pain from a heart’s rain;
On our harps of anguish
A void sings a mute tune,
A blend of sighing strings
From the stars and moon;
These celestial flowers
Entwine my crazy soul
My distant finite soul!
Sweet memories of life
Thrill the morning space;
Flowering buds open eyes
Telling of a dreams place;
Searching in the lost patterns
Winds of mild perfume sigh,
Tear drops deliver a hope
For thirsty flowers to try;
God! Water them slowly
With my round gifted tears
My garlands of tears!
Within her insightful gifts
Lie conflicting realities of light,
The cold breaths of another
Shape juvenile timid insight;
Our simple world of isolation
Builds up stains on our soul,
Yet golden moments in day
Opens up her love so whole;
Shape me in your unknown.
Oh! Speak your eternal music
Your love-filled music!
Drunk in your dreamy love
An ocean yet to be awoken,
Within your hidden heart
A symphony to be spoken;
Your exotic message to all
Speaks silently of shadows,
A voice of all our lost sighs
Walks carefully in meadows?
Come let us move silently
Among our creative life of flowers
Our delicate fading flowers!
Only Then
Fragility colliding with the void
Results in an outcry of suffering,
Which spreads evenly across all
In our world in need of buffering!
Stars maybe dissolving in our time
As word-breaths touch each light,
In each other we mirror sad forces
A self-trembling remorseless fight!
When we are in tune with our pains,
And can defeat our ways – a blessing,
We can carry our faded desires of
Missing thirsts, life now addressing.
A body in love to the core of being
Will an eternity and our limits meet,
Accepting her gifts, a shared truth
Autumn and Spring are at loves feet.
Hope filled lamps will burn and end
Passion and love soon too seek sleep,
When and where I see this new land
Memories engrossment will be deep!
In the slow, unsteady, awaiting eyes
Will soon a finding moment be sweet,
And in her heart of silent command
In her unknown we will finally meet!
Emerging
Whose voice is it that
Is heard as silence wept,
Coming from weak souls
Her vibrations they slept!
Dancing moves of eyes
Are fixed with heavy lids,
Becoming passive now
A tear filled eye forbids.
Whose unproductive life
Has been a path burning!
And reached Nirvana with
A lamp without yearning!
Hiding within silent clouds
Lightening’s agony sleeps,
In this madness of storms
Diffuse wisdom now leaps.
With compassion you like
To emerge from darkness
And light up gloomy skies!
A moment without harness!
Dream
Mixing diamond-like stars
With humble earthly clay,
Essences of human pain
Dims languid souls at play!
Gentle perfumed winds
Caressed me in this time,
Upon this lonely beach
Waves controlled by rhyme.
In the dense black of night
Waves hug-fill a deep sleep,
Dropping loves sweet nectar
From clouds who now weep.
In the silent dark shadows
Lie curls of luscious balm,
Oh sing your honeyed song
Started in tears, now calm.