Poems By Arjava

Invocation Of The Divine Mother

FOR HER EMERALD OF LIFE

Shakti of God that moves upon the waters,

Greatness and wideness of Spirit everlasting,

From senses, mind and heart, from a myriad moods and quarters

Enter with Thy puissances, transmuting and recasting.

FOR HER TOPAZ OF TRUTH-EXISTENCE

Wisdom of God, silent above Time-sources,

Transcendent peak all creature-ken outvasting,

Bring to heaven's roadsteads earth by devious courses,

Calm, ordinant as lodestone though all ways are over casting.

FOR HER AMETHYST OF THE POWER OF BEAUTY

Beauty, star-enrobing, a strangling here

From eldest aeons fraught with overthrow

Of shadow hood, because Thy worshippers draw near,

Once gaze-and then forswear all ease until they know.

FOR HER RUBY OF REALISATION

Joyhood, earth-englobing, God-victory,

In the east Thy dawn-rose banners faintly show;

Aidant to Love, the spear-hosts sweep from Eternity,

Till Time is heaven-conquered and the dateless bugles blow.