Akka Mahadevi Poems

Look at
love's marvellous
ways:
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Like a silkworm weaving
her house with love
from her marrow,
and dying
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Don't despise me as
She who has no one
I'm not one to be afraid,
Whatever you do.
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Sunlight made visible
the whole length of a sky,
movement of wind
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People,
male and female,
blush when a cloth covering their shame
comes loose
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You're like milk
In water: I cannot tell
What comes before,
What after;
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I have seen Him in His divine form,
Him with the matted locks,
Him with the jewelled crown,
Him with the gleaming teeth
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Would a circling surface vulture
know such depths of sky
as the moon would know?
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O Lord, listen to me if you will, listen not
if you will not: I cannot rest contented
unless I sing of you.
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I have fallen in love, O mother with the
Beautiful One, who knows no death,
knows no decay and has no form
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