INVOCATION

 

R. M. CHALLA

 

O roseats dawn of fresh recurrency

            incarnate in the rays of poesy,

                        may your felicity of inspiration

                                    incarnadine my waking invocation!

 

Yes, doubtless, endless is the sky of muse,

            and I will light its vast expanse with song...

 

O music-star of my chanting firmament,

            O mystic sun of my mind-universe,

                        O magic moon of my enchanted night,

 

I will now glisten with your starry spark,

            I will now brighten with your sunny blaze,

                        I will now freshen with your moonlight glow:

 

For mine is the heart of your moonlight glow:

            of your sun-blaze, the soul of your moon-glow...

 

I tune my song to the music of the spheres.

            I count the stars, I talk to them......My count

                        is of no numerals, my talk is not

                                    of words: in this star-vision of my muse

                                                innumerability - ineffability

                                                            is the instinctivity of my love.

 

O skies of fancy and imagination,

            O seas of thought and feeling and awareness,

                        I understand your far togetherness.

 

If not now, if not here, then somewhere, in

            some future entity of deathless life,

                        this world of living-dying shall be reborn

                                    as a universe of Beauty, Truth and Goodness....

 

Come, dumbness, talk!

            Come, deafness, hark!

                        Come blindness, look!

 

 

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