Overhead Poetry

Incarnation

Would you conceive her self? A sheer abyss

Of reverie existing by its own

Grandeur of inexhaustible silences

That know all secrets through a light unknown.

Nor her divinity the clay ensheathes:

Those pure immitigable joys unblind

Each human pore and her whole body breathes

The large and lustrous odour of her mind.

Sri Aurobindo's Comment

"It is very good. Such inversions as in the fifth line should not be too often used, as in modern English they are apt to be puzzling. It is from the Illumined Mind that the poem as a whole seems to have come. Most of your poems now are from there.

"Lines 1-3: Illumined style. Line 4: Illumined inspired style. Lines 5-8: Effective illumined style."¹

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