Sri Aurobindo

Collected Poems

CWSA.- Volume 2

Part Seven. Pondicherry
Incomplete Poems from Manuscripts, c. 1927 – 1947

In gleam Konarak

In gleam Konarak – Konarak of the Gods

A woman sits, her body a glimmering ray.

At her feet the moon trails its silvery dreams,

On her head is the sun and the purple day.

Always she sits there turning a wheel

Whose summit is lost in lights, its base in the abyss¹

In the temple she sits of the wide white sun

That burns unsetting in an² immortal space beyond Time.

Around her chant the world-poem the deathless Nine

And the feet of the Fates dance out the rhyme.

Earlier edition of this work: Archives and Research: A biannual journal.- Volume 8, No1 (1984, April).- p.2

¹ This stanza was not completed. (Note from A&R. 1984, No 1)

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² A&R. 1984, 1: the

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