Remembering / Forgetting

Devi Waiting for Her Children (c) Jayant Kalawar 180929

Aum Matre NamahA The Devi waiting for Her children (c) Jayant Kalawar 2019

 

Our goal in life

To be successful

Be in the right place

At the right time

Think the right things and

Perform the right way for

Single pointed acquisition and consumption.

 

First acquire and consume space:

Clear forests, drive out the locals.

 

Then set clocks to coordinate and

Slowly bleed cultural time,

the rhythms of natural life,

the rituals of learning

compassion

and

connection

and

wisdom.

 

Then content: How to and how not to think. The Scientific. The Rational. The Logical.

Snuff out imagination

and practice

and learning by doing.

 

Finally, imprison

Art in Cubes

Architecture in Glass

Urban Design in Squares

Maps with Borders

And Walls.

 

Suffering

Forgetting

Our Self

In the Vibrant Cosmos.

She is waiting

Devi’s Magic: Do you want to Play?

Devi's Magic Photo by Madhu Shesharam on Unsplash 180526

Magic: Sun shining through in my heart (Photo of Antelope Canyon by Madhu Shesharam on Unsplash)

The first few seconds

Every morning

Floating in spandanA

Pulsations

 

And then

Insistent clamor rising

You are different from the cosmos

You are man

You are father

You are debtor

 

Things to do

Dollar to earn

Scripts to act out

Atomized

 

In modernity

Bouncing around in anxieties

Chasing goals passionately

Round and Round

Breathlessly

 

Clouds of despair

Thunder of anger

Lightning bolts of hurt

Tears of sorrow

Winds Lashing

 

I chant my DurgA MantrA

Poof

Clouds are gone

Sun shines through

In my heart

Re-connecting

 

Magic

In the infinite game

Do you want to play?!

Desirous Energy: Imagining Untold Stories, Jumping Off To Fly

Inhaling Energy from Embers Jumping Off To Fly 180304

Inhaling Energy from Embers, Manifesting Space in Time (Photo by Toa Heftiba on Unsplash)

By Jayant Kalawar

Embedded

In dense vibration

Secure

 

A spark

Of desirous energy

Rising

Shape So Beautiful.

 

Standing on the edge

Of vastness

Manifesting space

In time.

 

Imagining untold stories

Filled with rapturous desires

Inhaling energy

From embers.

 

Jumping off to

Fly

Glide

Roll

Dance.

 

So free in

Imagined space

Floating in the embrace

Of soft amnesia.

 

Enveloped

In flow of Time

No moorings

A faint

Memory of

Umbilical love

Calling.

 

A confused thrashing

Dim awareness

What?

Who?

 

Lost

Seeking

The way back.

© 21BanyanTree and Jayant Kalawar