Rameswaram
Because you made us go to Kasi thrice
because you made it full circle with Rameswaram
we dragged a forty eight kilo stone serpent in a sack.
It is two serpents holding a baby Krishna
sucking his big toe.
I thought it was two serpents
intertwined in copulation,
but it is the Yin and Yang of the Kundalini.
As I lean against the twenty two theerthas
drenched in the mineral medicinal springs
and duck my head into the vast brine
thrice with nose closed steadfast
I have no time to think of those monkey engineers
who laid pebbles for this bridge across the sea
or Sita who moulded her Siva with clay sand,
the Siva that Rama worshipped.
I do this
all for a baby.
Would I have not come willingly
if you had wooed me to the beauty of this place?
Sivakami Velliangiri
I am working on this poem
Because you made us go to Kasi thrice
because you made it full circle with Rameswaram
we dragged a forty eight kilo stone serpent in a sack.
It is two serpents holding a baby Krishna
sucking his big toe.
I thought it was two serpents
intertwined in copulation,
but it is the Yin and Yang of the Kundalini.
As I lean against the twenty two theerthas
drenched in the mineral medicinal springs
and duck my head into the vast brine
thrice with nose closed steadfast
I have no time to think of those monkey engineers
who laid pebbles for this bridge across the sea
or Sita who moulded her Siva with clay sand,
the Siva that Rama worshipped.
I do this
all for a baby.
Would I have not come willingly
if you had wooed me to the beauty of this place?
Sivakami Velliangiri
I am working on this poem
