O' Ganesha, wherefore is my beginning?

To become the Gajanan or the elephant-faced

He let the Shiv behead the  'Aham' - 

The illusion that he was Shakti's alone, 

The power and ego - the obstacles to his core truth, annihilated 

To then be consecrated by his Father 

In an equanimity of Shiv 'n' Shakti

 the harbinger of the Shubh

the Vighna-Vinashak, rises from the fallen barriers of one's own doing. 

The Gajamukh beholds the memories of many lifetimes,

As the  soul manifests from one life form to another,  

Travailing through its karmic rites 

The Ekdanta, of universal wisdom scripts a story  about quelling the goblins

And unfolding a path beginning from the fallen walls of the mind! 

Uma

27/08/2025

Stillness

I zoned out, from the noise and the crowd,

From the world outside 

To sit in, within walls impervious 

To drown the voices of chaos 

Of disruption and delusion .

I zoned out, snapping the last wire of the grid

To escape the deluge of data and numbers 

The timelines and the timed quests, 

The hankering for hidden treasures 

I zoned out from the over speeding and the rush-hour highways

To just take a deep breath 

To feel the moment of stillness - to enjoy the suspension and the gravity of time, the floating and anchoring,

I zoned out, to be alone from a world indifferent to pain and death, 

To build my sanctum of space 

Just to pause, ponder and reflect...

In words and verses, I was the lone, wandering soul

Till  one big bang of a  universe recreates in tandav and lasya, 

The rhythms flow into my soul like music 

The expression of frozen time finds the wings of poetic ecstasy!

Uma.S 

03/08/2025