Kali

The protagonist of the Dooms Day Dance

Dum dum dum dum

Throbs the damaru heart
Beating up the beginning
Of the Dreadful End
The Dramatic Dooms Day Dance
Of Creative-Destruction beckons….

Kreem kreem kreem kreem

She shrieks , Awakening…
Kali the terribly beautiful!
Clothed in electric blue
She sways her unkept hair
Signalling the destruction
Of schizophrenic cycles
Bred by human hubris

Hreem hreem hreem hreem

She heaves,
Gathering a steady pitch
Making space for final submissions
Before the glorious sublimation

Kleem kleem kleem kleem

She reckons,
The donigerian chandas
And kripalian mundas
Alas! Arrogance
As Heehs leers in glee.

Dum dum dum dum
Hreem kleem hreem kleem
Dum dum dum dum
Hreem kleem hreem kleem

She unleashes…
Oh! The dripping elemental bloodlust
The innocent mayhem of nihilistic mirth

Dum dum dum dum
Hreem kreem kleem hreem kreem kleem
Dum dum dum dum
Hreem kreem kleem hreem kreem kleem

Oh! The spectacle
Her fiery glaring eyes
Her ravishing garland chest
Her thousand armed fury
Swinging amidst the resounding rhythm
of Her rounded hips
Swerving with dynamic grace
Along time’s descending limb

Dum dum dum dum dum dum
Hreem kleem kreem hreem kleem kreem hreem kleem hreem
Dum dum dum dum dum dum
Hreem kleem kreem hreem kleem hreem kleem kleem hreem

Oh! The Horror
As She decimates every particular
Suckling every particle to complete dissolution
The desolately equanimous dance of death
Levelling existence to devastating oblivion.

Dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum
Hreem kreem kleem hreem kreem kleem hreem kreem kleem
Dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum
Hreem kreem kleem hreem kreem kleem hreem kreem kleem

Oh! Her pristine petrifying Koothu..
Rising to a feverishly pulsating pitch
Ecstatically, shaking the very ground
Of her explosive emergence
The gods pray and asuras plead
Yet She yields not to their frantic cries
Stops not at mass extinction
Threatening to tune up her Tandav
Toward total annihilation…

Dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum
kleem kreem hleem kreem kleem hleem kreem kleem hleem kreem kleem
Dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum
Kreem kleem Hreem hleem kreem kleem hreen hleem kreem kleem hreem hleem……

Whirling away in reckless abandon
She stops instantly
Feeling her feet on familiar heart
Stupefied, her lotus eye blooms in shock
Seeing Her lotus-foot over her Beloved
Shiva lies smiling ever silently..

Left: The Birth, Centre: An old Sculpture of the Birth, Right: Mahakali

Dum dum dum
Hreem kreem
Dum dum
Hleem kleem
Dum

Embarrassed!
She blushes blueishly
Remembering and manifesting,
As the gorgeously golden Mahakali
Exasperated!
She rolls out her tongue to rest
Gushing over His absolute stillness
Whilst He revels at Her riveting feat

Stimulated, they tango together again….
Birthing Krishna, who ascends
Despite the gargantuan downpour
Of Time’s descending limb
Waltzing amidst the Kurukshetra
Playfully delivering eternal wisdom
Through his mysteriously-mischievous Lila!

The Birthing of an Emergent Krishna with an Apriori Shiva

Inspired by Sri Aurobindo- “When will the world change into the model of heaven? When all mankind becomes boys and girls together with God revealed as Krishna and Kali, the happiest boy and strongest girl of the crowd, playing together in the gardens of Paradise. The Semitic Eden was well enough, but Adam and Eve were too grown up and its God Himself too old and stern and solemn for the offer of the Serpent to be resisted.”

And Subramanya Bharathi’s - “Oozhikoothu”(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nhed_ZDINOg )