To wait and watch
Thus restless;
Each nightly hour
Is endless.

Breasts heavy with pain-
Do I cry?
Or do I smile?
Beloved, hie!

Love’s ways are filled
With sweet thorns-
To pull one out
Another adorns.

The crescent’s laugh
Darts my heart-
O come, ere sleep
Plays his art.


Background:

I have called these poems “The Fire of Love” in the sense that love, like fire, is all-consuming and all-purifying. The longing heart holds the inferno of a thousand suns. The cool shower of the sweetheart’s sight soothes the searing soul. I can vouch for it.

Every lover is Krishna and every beloved is Radha. The legend of their love is experienced by all that have felt Love’s electrifying touch. I share the opinion that ‘Krishna and Radha symbolize the Embrace of Yin and Yang, the Unification of Masculine and Feminine energies, the merging of Humanity and the Divine. When one transcends and awakens to the Truth, one sees that we are all united with the universe and that we are never alone. When our energies balance, we manifest our own reality. That is the essence of Krishna and Radha, the Divine Embrace’.

The mention of bites and fingernail marks is found in many a poem. They are considered signs of passion in Indian tradition. They express the emotive power of the union between the lover and the beloved. It must be mentioned here that ‘the associations are not sadistic, but more like hickeys in American tradition or love bites in the British tradition’

Komarraju Venkata Vinay

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