Overhead Poetry

God's World

|How shall the witness mind's tranquillity

+Catch the extravagant happiness of God's world?

|To reach one goal He flings a million paths

+Laughing with sheer love of the limitless,

Wandering for centuries in secret glory,

|Then striking home a single light of lights!

|Marvellous the pattern of His prodigal power,

But vainly the philosopher will brood

+This sable serpent flecked with sudden stars.

+Coil after coil of unpredictable dream

Will set his logic whirling till it drops.

Only the poet with wide eyes that feel

+Each form a shining gate to depths beyond

Knows through the magic measures of his tune

+Our world is the overflow of an infinite wine

+Self-tasted in the mystery-drunken heart.

Sri Aurobindo's Reply

"The +marking indicates lines which are of the first poetic order. The ordinary mark indicates those which are excellent. The other lines not marked are all of them good but not of a special quality. Both the poems are very successful, especially the first."

7-11-1950

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