Proud to be Samoan
Living the Fa'a Samoa
The unique culture
The unique culture
Expressed in dance and music
Siva and fa'ataupati
Siva and fa'ataupati
Graceful and energetic
Telling ancient stories
Telling ancient stories
With art, craft and tattoos
Symbols of identity
Symbols of identity
Rooted in family and faith
Proud to be Samoan
Categories:
siva, allusion, appreciation, community, devotion,
Form: Haiku
I
Hindus and their admirers often speak of their Trinity: Brahma the Creator, Vishnu the Preserver/ Sustainer. And Siva the Creative-Destroyer (in the way death of a seed, or if old family members also intimate). One theory of Cosmic origins similar to the Phoenix rising from ashes was also endorsed by the Vatican around 1920 (a Belgian priest-scientist gave us that theory of a cyclical Universe).
II
The dance of atoms, molecules, particles and waves is anticipated in the Hindu teaching that after several thousands of number of years, the cosmos atrophies, so Siva dances Creation again ( dance if molecules?). The Hindu Scripture focus more on all life and creation is nothing but vibrations. Gold and lead are dancing or it's molecules are dancing different dances, yet dancing vibrations all.
Categories:
siva, christian, culture, god, hindi,
Form: Didactic
Haumea, speak then
might the waters make the lava stop
te nights were the sterams of tomorrow
might cause men of yesterday
to talk as it were tomorrow. beyond the expectations of mortals
might these men seek
to find ways
that the gGod Haumea, maketh so the ways of now
that Haumea, see's fit to have the storms of
now water the gardens of tomorrow.
Categories:
siva, beach, beautiful, beauty, creation,
Form: Ballad
A dog chasing his tail,
A toddler playing fort/da with his toy,
Children playing hide-and-seek,
A player chasing a leather ball,
A physicist ‘knocking about’ an electron
(while measuring its velocity),
A poet carnivalizing a composition,
YHWH playing with the sign,
As in Babel and ever after,
Or Siva hiding the meaning (of mantras and numbers,
as told in Sivsutravimarsini)—
These are all basically instinctual acts,
Involving the ludic instinct.
They all, as such, differ in degree and domain
Rather than in kind!
— Ram, R . V.
Categories:
siva, philosophy,
Form: Lyric
For J. C. Alldridge
Piccolo and been-throated pibroch
Dilating dimpled hood
Spreading photometric darkroom eyes
Waxing waxing matching
Venomous lip to music's piping lip
O Queen of stung dragon-mouthed Po
Dancing girl of nuanceless ancient reliefs
The apotheosis Brahman curling on the neck
Must you now sink sink
Dread watched
Spineless
Into the winding womb wickerwork
Watching watching pipe-eyed watching
Until you slip
Over the sill of the pipe and the lip
Anathema!
Amorphous piteous anathema!
Amulet of Siva!
Licking the boneless air companionless
Then slithering to lie on the trodden path
Must you have this one last lick
A lick that
Stills the
Unheeding
Child astray
Or ripple tailless
In the reedy gust
To the squat charmer's
Hypnotical pibroch
©: T. Wignesan - Paris, 1957 (from Tracks of a Tramp. Kuala Lumpur-Singapore: 1961; first pub. in "Forum Academicum", University of Heidelberg, 1957)
Categories:
siva, angst,
Form: Free verse
There are seven bowls
from which will you drink?
The first bowl holds nourishment.
The second bowl is insubstantial.
The third bowl holds
creative liquids reflecting
a silver crescent moon.
The fourth bowl holds
a silver and white woman;
the mother of all buddhas.
The fifth bowl holds
Siva as she dances in death.
The sixth bowl holds
the incarnation
of the Great Mother in the waves.
The seventh bowl holds
ten thousand things
of transcendant wisdom.
Now, from which of these
will you choose
to stem from?
For the time is now before you.
Categories:
siva, allegory, devotion, faith, inspirational,
Form: Free verse