Famous Shiva Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Shiva poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous shiva poems. These examples illustrate what a famous shiva poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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Kalidasa,
...Eight forms has Shiva, lord of all and king:
And these are water, first created thing;
And fire, which speeds the sacrifice begun;
The priest; and time's dividers, moon and sun;
The all-embracing ether, path of sound;
The earth, wherein all seeds of life are found;
And air, the breath of life: may he draw near,
Revealed in these, and bless those gathered here....Read more of this...
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Kalidasa,
...I see you hunt the spotted deer
With shafts to end his race,
As though God Shiva should appear
In his immortal chase....Read more of this...
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Raine, Kathleen
...undant days
is Time the destroyer —
In the Iron Age
the Kali Yuga
To whom can we pray
at the end of an era
but the Lord Shiva,
the Liberator, the purifier?
Our forests are felled,
our mountains eroded,
the wild places
where the beautiful animals
found food and sanctuary
we have desolated,
a third of our seas,
a third of our rivers
we have polluted
and the sea-creatures dying.
Our civilization’s
blind progress
in wrong courses
through wrong choices
has brought us to night...Read more of this...
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Rumi, Jalal ad-Din Muhammad
...is worthless
When compared to one whisper
of the Beloved.
Ode 442 trans. by Jonathan Star and Shahram Shiva
A Garden Beyond Paradise: The Mystical Poetry of Rumi
Links poetseers.org/the-poetseers/rumis-poetry">(Rumi Poetry) (poetseers.org/the-poetseers/rumi">Rumi) ...Read more of this...
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Jeffers, Robinson
...There is a hawk that is picking the birds out of our sky,
She killed the pigeons of peace and security,
She has taken honesty and confidence from nations and men,
She is hunting the lonely heron of liberty.
She loads the arts with nonsense, she is very cunning
Science with dreams and the state with powers to catch them at last.
Nothing will escape ...Read more of this...
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Kipling, Rudyard
...An' that dam' brain-fever-bird;
We'd say 'twas 'ighly curious,
An' we'd all ride 'ome to bed,
With Mo'ammed, God, an' Shiva
Changin' pickets in our 'ead.
Full oft on Guv'ment service
This rovin' foot 'ath pressed,
An' bore fraternal greetin's
To the Lodges east an' west,
Accordin' as commanded
From Kohat to Singapore,
But I wish that I might see them
In my Mother-Lodge once more!
I wish that I might see them,
My Brethren black an' brown,
With the trichies smelli...Read more of this...
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Rumi, Jalal ad-Din Muhammad
...: ‘Hush Don’t Say Anything to God: Passionate Poems of Rumi’
Translated by rumi.net/rumi_by_shiva.html" target="top">Sharam Shiva poetseers.org/the-poetseers/rumis-poetry/ghazal-119">NEXT Poem Links poetseer...Read more of this...
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