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Tears for the dead Moon
Contributed by
venkat
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Monday, 22nd March 2004 @ 01:10:55 AM in AEST
Topic:
Grief
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Part.3 of the "Lady of the Mountain"
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Bhadra and his fierce army of demons destroyed
Every thing in rage, kicked the vessels, smashed
The lamps, destroyed idols and attacked every one.
They dragged out gods and goddesses and forced
Them to their knees, danced on Mahendra’s head,
Broke the staff of the King of Death and tore away
Beards and moustaches of divine sages, the hands
Of Fire-God were cut off and Sacrifice it self took
The shape of a deer trying to escape, Bhadra cut
Its head and by a mighty blow of his blazing sword,
Daksha’s head rolled on and fell into the sacrificial
Fires, at last it’s the turn of Sun God for he couldn’t
Hide, as his own brightness betrayed his location
“Oh, Sun, didn’t you laugh baring your teeth when
My Lord was abused?” saying thus he slapped on
Sun’s check resulting in the fall of all his fiery-teeth
And his luster was grabbed: all was accomplished
By Bhadra in no time, then dead silence prevailed.
Every where lay corpses, shattered vessels and
Broken idols, at the centre of hall the head less body
Of Daksha gushing blood lied as his wife sat by
Mourning its side and at a little distance lay the body
of Sati, the flames had taken her life yet didn’t tarnish
Her loveliness, looked as if she was sleeping, then
No body knew when Siva came and sat by the side of
Sati’s body shedding silent tears constantly staring it;
He saw nothing else, heard nothing of the commotion
For him all things had ceased to be. His mind came
out of dungeon of grief when he heard Veerini’s weeping,
Turned his eyes and saw the noble lady stand before him
Begging for her husband’s life.
Recognizing the gray haired lady as the beloved
mother of his beloved Sati he whispered-
“Let Daksha live” and resumed silence.
At once Daksha’s blood stained body began to move.
As his headless trunk rose up with its hands
groping blindly.
All were horrified to see, then Bhadra
cut off the head of a goat
and slapped it on to the trunk of Daksha whose spirit
Blinked at the world out of goat’s eyes,
even as his words came in goat’s reedy quivering voice
“Om Namah Sivaya, O Lord thou art the soul of universe,
Thou art the embodiment of the blissful consciousness,
In Thee I take refuge.” On hearing this prayer,
Bhadra and his army of demons disappeared.
Gods and sages expressed their sorrow and
Bade farewell to Siva. He noticed the lack of staff
in the hands of the king of death and asked him
To take a new one and saw the Sun God standing
At a distance with his head down wards cast
Caressing his cheek with pain and of tooth less mouth
As his heat had gone he was shivering.
Siva took pity on him, “Sun, get your heat
and brightness back, but thou should watch carefully,
For all actions of men be thou a witness when they
Reap fruit, now repent and perform penance,
resume your duty for the welfare of the world.”
Then Sun God much pleased went away to discharge
his duty in the high skies as his powers were restored.
Later, Sati was born as Parvati, the daughter of Himavan,
The lord of the snow capped Mountain to marry Lord Siva
Then she was called the Lady of the Mountain,
the adorable Mother of the world, and was known
As the ever compassionate guardian of the righteous
and the embodiment of the Lord’s word!
- The End -
22-3-2004
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venkat
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2004-03-22 01:10:55]
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Re: Tears for the dead Moon
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by emystar on
Monday, 22nd March 2004 @ 02:06:05 AM AEST
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Oh wow, even tho a bit gory this is an awesome ending!
Great work, my dear friend.
luv, huggs,
emy
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Re: Tears for the dead Moon
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by DreamWeaver on
Monday, 22nd March 2004 @ 03:33:11 AM AEST
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| Well, this has certainly been an amazing trilogy ... nice to see something dark, deep and mysterious flow from your pen ... Jan |
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Re: Tears for the dead Moon
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by Former_Member on
Monday, 22nd March 2004 @ 04:44:46 AM AEST
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| you are an amazing story teller...wonderful work...beautifully done..Snigdha |
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Re: Tears for the dead Moon
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by kalika_vidya on
Monday, 22nd March 2004 @ 05:30:28 AM AEST
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| Thanks for sharing our Indian mythological story on this great site..taking so much interest ...K |
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Re: Tears for the dead Moon
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by Jenni_Kalicharan on
Monday, 22nd March 2004 @ 07:09:06 AM AEST
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Written with such passion!!
Jenni |
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Re: Tears for the dead Moon
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by venkat on
Monday, 22nd March 2004 @ 07:42:27 AM AEST
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seems there are few grammar mistakes which could not be checked up in my haste before posting of the poem..sorry..
venkat |
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Re: Tears for the dead Moon
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by LOWMAN613 on
Monday, 22nd March 2004 @ 11:35:58 AM AEST
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| Wow this was a great story One I so loved to read! Christina |
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Re: Tears for the dead Moon
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by Rakerman1999 on
Monday, 22nd March 2004 @ 12:12:17 PM AEST
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Great read....I was held captive by it till the very end.
Well done
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Re: Tears for the dead Moon
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by Kie on
Monday, 22nd March 2004 @ 12:46:00 PM AEST
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| I read this two times consequtively simply because I couldn't get enough. Oh what a storyteller you are Venkat. You weave, entice, enthrall and I am your forever fan! Loved all three.... Kie |
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Re: Tears for the dead Moon
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by thumper on
Monday, 22nd March 2004 @ 09:10:56 PM AEST
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Yay. I waited all weekend for this and was not disappointed! Very good read and write. I was thoroughly entranced! Thank you. I hope you post more stories. I look forward to them.
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Re: Tears for the dead Moon
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by Necromant on
Tuesday, 23rd March 2004 @ 03:51:07 PM AEST
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Oh its finished! What a trilogy! Really tragic and gory but the ending is really wonderful!! Thanks for sharing this great epic!!! Awesome write!
Anne :D |
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Re: Tears for the dead Moon
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by ladyfawn on
Tuesday, 23rd March 2004 @ 07:44:37 PM AEST
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oh my!!! beautiful!! hugs n' love nessa
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Re: Tears for the dead Moon
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by AnGeL_M on
Wednesday, 24th March 2004 @ 05:23:25 AM AEST
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So Beautiful
Great Write I Enjoy Reading
Your Poems....
,,,,,,,,,LoVe,,,,AnGeL,,,,,,,,,, |
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Re: Tears for the dead Moon
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by twinkletoes on
Thursday, 25th March 2004 @ 01:21:03 AM AEST
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venkat, I wish I could write these things, I am sorry to say that my brain is too small. a person who is able to write of these things in this way is gifted.
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Re: Tears for the dead Moon
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by lovingcritters on
Friday, 26th March 2004 @ 02:14:04 AM AEST
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Venkat, you've done it again. Splendid write.
How do you remember all that?
Wonderful
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