Overhead Poetry

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 Mind touched with something from the Overmind Intuition, though the touch is more evident in 6 and 8."

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