The pain of clinging cuts so deep,Grief burns like an endless fire.O Bhagavan!Alas… Rama! If we are born, we must depart,There is no cure for death’s return.If we had never come—how peaceful that would be.So the Blessed One has taught:Speak gently of the dead,Praise their virtues, let faults be forgotten.Why think beyond this truth?My weary…
Rain-forested peaks rise to kiss the clouds,Great rivers wander, flowing in every direction.In secret caves, sages dwell in silence,Guardians of the hidden powers of the universe.This is the paradise isle—Its forests breathing the air that sustains mankind. O Plata, Sandara, Arittha,Shiva, Vessavana, Vishwadeva! The palaces of ancient Hela were carved of moonstone,Gleaming bright beneath the…
I hear someone speaking softly of love,And at once, I remember you there.At night a flute drifts through the distance—Before sleep arrives, I begin to dream. My heart carries me far away…I am alone, in a lonely world. The stars paint dreams across the sky,While the moon hides shyly in the clouds,As if the warmth…
King Devakonda counseled me: “Go, to the island of Sinhala.”And Koman, the Arab trader, promised: “Ask of me anything you desire.”If fate decrees the journey, then I must go—For there lies an island paradise, rising from the sea. Let us follow the signs spoken by the ancients,Of a land most fertile, praised by Indians of…
They say my lover was found as an infant,abandoned in a forest of roses.Yet even now he runs from the smallest spider,afraid to walk alone when night descends.On the street he moves with girlish airs. My lover—my delicate lover—ah, bastard! my lover. A matchmaker brought him to me,from a village far away,from a family proud…