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Riding The Tiger - Tribute To Devi Durga (Marshalline Sonnet)

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In crimson dressed, suggesting action
protecting virtue through her powers
The Holy War, her satisfaction
she breaks the walls of evil’s towers

Her tender arms hold sharpened weapons
one mace, a sword, one disc, a trident
Observe her battle as it happens
she kills the ego, brings detachment

She’s Durga Devi on Her tiger
who chases greed with wisdom’s arrow
No other Goddess can defeat her
whose heart is vast, and path is narrow

Oh Devi, keep us in Your favour
so we may know Nirvana’s flavour


Author notes

an homage to Devi Durga http://chennaionline.com/festivalsnreligion/slogams/slogam34.asp

dedicated to Laura Lamarca http://allpoetry.com/Laura%20Lamarca

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Marshalline Sonnet : variation of an English Sonnet in iambic pentameter with a feminine ending (= unstressed syllable) ... 14 lines composed of 3 quatrains + 1 couplet, 9 syllables per line, abab cdcd efef gg rhyme scheme

a precious column on Mairi bheag’s Marshalline Sonnet-form : http://allpoetry.com/column/2265620

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  • W B Burkholder
    May 10

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    "nirvanas Flavor, awesome rendering here of the pic, thanks for sharing this, she kills the ego... oh that it could be so...ego is a horrid wall that gets in the way of the truth and enlightenment


  • Ithica silver member
    April 30

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    Divi can give herself a round of applaudes and I will do the same for you... And I feel like I fell into Golden Pond... I like what you write so well!!! hehehe!!!


  • delightfulmess silver member
    April 10

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    Bravo This is a excellent.


    Delila


  • CitrineSunrise
    April 2

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    Delicately written and educational at the same time. I love sonnets and am always pleased to see another adaption. Congratulations on your silver trophy and thank you for sharing this with us. Peace, Liz


  • Laura Lamarca
    April 2

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    This is a beauty of a sonnet that not only educated me, but embraced me too. I keep returning to read it again and again & think that this shall always be one of my favourite poems of yours. Congrats on the Silver placing, it was truly deserving.

    Love you

    Laura x


  • Mairi bheag gold member
    April 2

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    You got a silver with it!




  • Swan song gold member
    March 31
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    This is lovely and you do these sonnets very very well. A true gem to read!!!!


  • Purush
    March 30

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    BEST OF LUCK

    YOU HAVE depicted MAHISASURA MARDINI IN A DEVOTIONAL WAY.
    SHE IS POPULARLY KNOWN AS KALI IN WEST BENGAL REGION[INDIA
    http://sacred-songs.blogspot.com/2007/06/mahisasura-mardini.html
    HOPE THIS WILL GIVE A GOOD IMPRESSION ON THIS HINDU GODDESS IN THE HEART OF OTHER POETS.
    BEST OF LUCK IN THE CONTEST

    • maa gold member
      March 31
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      you are reading my mind, my friend ...
      the "mahisasuramardini stotram" is one of my favorite devotional hymns besides "nirvanashtakam" and "bhavani ashtakam" ... I am a great adorer of adi shankaracharya and am preparing an essai about his devotional texts at the moment ...
      thank you for the link, the interpretation is beautiful, I have a video of ammachi singing it, and your message was just a wonderful synchronicity !

      I have once written a poem "prayer to the divine mother", using the same meter and rhythm as the mahisasuramardini stotram, since I love it so much : http://allpoetry.com/poem/3210478

      thank you again for your constant encouragement on my spiritual path ...

      pranams,
      maa

  • Mairi bheag gold member
    March 30
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    My serene friend.

    I am very glad you decided to try this sub-form of the sonnet. I only named it after myself as a joke, really, after someone here described it as a "new form". I am sure that someone else has written nine-to-a-line sonnets before, and no one has thought to name them.

    I only started writing them to extend the choice of words at the end of a line, to those with a falling rhythm. It gives the lines a kind of cadence. The structure is four iambs followed by an amphibrach. I would like to think it can be used without an inevitable cut-off at line-ends, and that the words can flow from one line to the next.

    This is a lovely poem, of course, full of your usual devotion. It is good to see a depiction of Durga, on a Western website, which does not rely on her negative aspects (her "bad press", if you like).

    I love reading each new poem of yours as it comes up.

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