I wrote these last year, after hearing Radha Govinda Swami’s 7-day narrations of the pastimes of Lord Krishna Stealing the Garments of the Unmarried Gopi Girls and Delivering the Wives of the Brahmanas Engaged in Sacrifice.
Innocent Gopis
Krishna stole their clothes and hearts
Robbed of modesty.
*
Clothes on Your shoulders,
You call each girl “come forward,”
And make it prasada.
You call each girl “come forward,”
And make it prasada.
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Brahmins, Yajna, Pride
Mantra, tantra, all useless
But wives understood.
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Thank you for coming
Leaving it all for My sake
Now you must go back.
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The Bhagavatam says
that Lord Krishna is faultless
then what fool finds fault?
The Bhagavatam says
that Lord Krishna is faultless
then what fool finds fault?
2 comments:
Wonderful to see devotees writing poetry.
Being a bit of a purist though, I would call them short poems, not haikus.
There are more elements to haiku than 5-7-5. In English, most haikus are shorter than that.
Haiku typically involves nature and the pairing of two separate things or events, that creates an unspoken subjective idea.
Great practice for writers, I can refer you to a monthly haiku contest run by a devotee, though it isn't a devotional site, if you are interested.
These are great -I love short poems...like little bite sized burfis :D
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