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Resource name: /E-Library/Disciples/Amal Kiran (K D Sethna)/English/Overhead Poetry/Pool of Lonelinesses.htm
POOL OF LONELINESSES
I have become a secret pool
Of lonelinesses mountain-cool,
A dream-poise of unuttered song
Lifted above the restless throng
Of
human moods' dark pitchers wrought
Of
fragile and of flawful thought.
Now
never more my tunes shall flow
In
moulds of common joy and woe;
But
seraph hands reveal wide jars
Cut
from the solitudes of stars
And
stoop across the sky to fill
The
perfect shapes of their calm will
With
musical obedience
From my
pellucid time-suspense;
And in
their crystalline control
Of
heaven-mooded ecstasy
Carry
the waters of my soul
Unto
God's sacr
Resource name: /E-Library/Disciples/Amal Kiran (K D Sethna)/English/Overhead Poetry/Invocation to the Fourfold Divine.htm
INVOCATION TO THE FOURFOLD DIVINE
O Void
where deathless power is merged in peace!
O
myriad Passion lit to one self-fire!
O
Breath like some vast rose that breaks through form!
O Hush of gold by whom all truth is
heard!
Consume in me the blinded walls of
mind:
Wing far above dull thought my speech
with flame,
Make my desire an infinite sky's
embrace,
A joy that feels through every
colour's throb
One single heart kindling the
universe—
And by strange sleep draw heaven
closer still,
Blotting all distances of space and
time!
Sri Aurobindo's Comment
"That is perfect—it is all of one
pi
DRAGON
A cry
of gold piercing the spine's dark sleep,
A
dragon fire consuming mortal thought,
An
aureoled hunger that makes time fall dead,
My
passion curves from bliss to heavenward bliss.
Kindling the rhythm of a myriad smile,
This
white wave lifted by some virgin deep
I
Breaks through the embodied moments of the mind
To a
starry universe of infinite trance.
Sri
Aurobindo's Comment
"All the lines are very fine,
especially those marked. The three first of each stanza have a great intensity
of vision—Higher Mind plus Overmind Intuition touch. The last—Higher Mind plus
Illumined Mind—is not equal in vision but still not to
DELUGE
You
fear clay's solid rapture will be gone
If once
your love dives deep to the Unknown—
But how
shall body not seem a hollow space
When
the soul bears eternity's embrace?—
Eternity which to the outward glance
Is some
unmoving painted sea of trance,
Lifeless, an artist's dream—but suddenly
Those
phantom colours wake and the whole sea
Hurls
from its pictured distance, drowning the eyes
In a
passionate world of dense infinities!
No
longer will you talk of shadowy bliss:
With
measureless life God comes, and our flesh-form
Sways
like a weed in His enfolding storm.
Sri Aurobindo's Comment
"It i
Resource name: /E-Library/Disciples/Amal Kiran (K D Sethna)/English/Overhead Poetry/Out of the Unknown.htm
4
OUT
OF THE UNKNOWN
Out of the unknown, like meteor-rain
Fell glimmering on my dark despair
The syllables of a prophetic tongue:
"O heart disconsolate, beauty-wrung,
Wanderer unsated, not in vain
A voice of unattainable melody
Winging in heavenly air,
Came Brindavan's immortal memory
And turned thy human happiness
Into dim longing pain.
Thy life's search is not meaningless
Though Jumuna's banks are void and
bare;
Now too a spirit-flute
Conveys again so holy a calm abroad
That even on misery's lips fallen mute
In uncompanioned throes
Pale silence blossoms like a ro
Resource name: /E-Library/Disciples/Amal Kiran (K D Sethna)/English/Overhead Poetry/Time-Telescope.htm
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TIME-TELESCOPE
"How can thy reverie's molecule of
sight
Pierce the lone reaches of the starred
Obscure?
Mix with my largening thought whose
deep and pure
Quiet brings close the eternal
harmonies!
Across my length of vigil, nectars
move:
I am a crystal medium of far light,
Through whom the unattainable galaxies
Glow with a luminous Mother's intimate
love!"
Sri Aurobindo's Comment
(Does my consistent sustaining of the telescope image throughout by
expressions like "largening thought", "brings close", "length of vigil",
"crystal medium of far light", etc., put the poem in the class of what might be
called "inspired
RISHI
He brought the calm of a gigantic
sleep:
Earth's mind—a flicker gathering
sudden gold—
Merged with unknowable vistas to come
back
A fire whose tongue had tasted
paradise.
A plumbless music rolled from his far
mouth:
Waves of primeval secrecy broke white
Along the heart's shores, a rumour of
deathless love
Afloat like a vast moon upon the deep.
Sri Aurobindo's Comment
"A very fine poem, lines
I, 4 are from the Illumined Higher Mind. The second comes very splendidly
from the Illumined Mind, the third is Higher Mind at a high level. The fifth
comes from the Higher Mind—the sixth, seventh and eighth from the Illumined
Resource name: /E-Library/Disciples/Amal Kiran (K D Sethna)/English/Overhead Poetry/Through Vesper^s Veil.htm
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THROUGH VESPER'S VEIL
A rose of fire like a secret smile
Won from the heart of lost eternity
Broke suddenly through vesper's virgin
veil.
A smoulder of strange joy—then time
grew dark,
And all my vigil's burning cry a swoon
As if the soul were drawn into its God
Across that dream-curve dimming out of
space....
Then from the inmost deep a white
trance-eye
Kindled a throbbing core of the
Unknown,
Some mute mysterious memory lit beyond
The wideness with one star that is the
dusk.
Sri Aurobindo's Comment
"Very fine poetry—quite original.
Its originality consists as in other poems of yours of the same kind
Resource name: /E-Library/Disciples/Amal Kiran (K D Sethna)/English/Overhead Poetry/The Close of Dante^s Divina Commedia.htm
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THE CLOSE OF DANTE'S "DIVINA
COMMEDIA" ("PARADISO", Canto 33)
St. Bernard Supplicates on Behalf
of Dante
"O Virgin Mother, daughter of thy Son!
Life's
pinnacle of shadowless sanctity,
Yet,
with the lustre of God-union,
Outshining all in chaste humility—
Extreme
fore-fixed by the supernal Mind,
Unto
such grace rose thy humanity
That the Arch-dreamer who thy form
designed
Scorned
not to house His own vast self in clay:
For,
thy womb's sacred mystery enshrined
The omnific Love by whose untarnished
ray
Now
flowers this rose-heart of eternal peace!
A
beaconing magnificent midday
Art t
ARCH-IMAGE
A kiss will break the quiet whole
Of your white soul;
Shape from the silver of that poise
A magic voice,
The
lustre of a skyward call—
No
flickering grace, but all
Your
spirit's gathered virgin light
One
death-oblivious height
Of
shadowless body rapture-crowned—
A face
of reverie caught beyond
Our
time-throbs to strange heavens afar....
O build
from hush of star on star
That
shining statued secrecy
Of
love's divinity!
Sri Aurobindo's Comment
"Very fine throughout—both the
thought and expression very felicitous and intuitively right—exacacty expressive
of the thing seen."
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