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Collected Poems

CWSA.- Volume 2

Part Seven. Pondicherry
Incomplete Poems from Manuscripts, c. 1927 – 1947

In gleam Konarak

In gleam Konarak – Konarak of the Gods

A woman sits, her body a glimmering ray.

At her feet the moon trails its silvery dreams,

On her head is the sun and the purple day.

Always she sits there turning a wheel

Whose summit is lost in lights, its base in the abyss1

In the temple she sits of the wide white sun

That burns unsetting in an2 immortal space beyond Time.

Around her chant the world-poem the deathless Nine

And the feet of the Fates dance out the rhyme.

 

Earlier edition of this work: Archives and Research: A biannual journal.- Volume 8, No1 (1984, April).- p.2

1 This stanza was not completed. (Note from A&R. 1984, No 1)

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2 A&R. 1984, 1: the

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