{"id":14,"date":"2024-07-03T10:18:07","date_gmt":"2024-07-03T10:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/padmajaaiyer.com\/blog\/?p=14"},"modified":"2025-01-17T08:15:08","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T08:15:08","slug":"the-lotus-pink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/padmajaaiyer.com\/blog\/poetry\/the-lotus-pink\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lotus Pink"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"5gb0t\" class=\"baDYm _1aFGu\" data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\">Deep under, in murky waters,<br \/>\nFrom tangled roots, rose a prayer,<\/p>\n<p id=\"1blbl\" class=\"baDYm _1aFGu\">To sacred Earth, Water, Wind, Air, and Fire,<br \/>\nFor life yet again, my soul aspired,<\/p>\n<p id=\"d6cpi\" class=\"baDYm _1aFGu\">Several forms, by now I had been,<br \/>\nIn the plant kingdom of fairies and pixies,<\/p>\n<p id=\"8539c\" class=\"baDYm _1aFGu\">As slender creepers and fragile ferns,<br \/>\nBut now a flower, to be I yearned,<\/p>\n<p id=\"994f8\" class=\"baDYm _1aFGu\">A being soft and vulnerable,<br \/>\nYet full of strength ,So beautiful,<\/p>\n<p id=\"cgd1d\" class=\"baDYm _1aFGu\">An expression of awakening and serenity,<br \/>\nA Lotus pink I chose to be,<\/p>\n<p id=\"8elu7\" class=\"baDYm _1aFGu\">Surging up through slush and roots,<br \/>\nI sprouted out, a tiny shoot,<\/p>\n<p id=\"3g4rm\" class=\"baDYm _1aFGu\">A burning desire for union,<br \/>\nWith the radiant rays of the smiling Sun,<\/p>\n<p id=\"fms8t\" class=\"baDYm _1aFGu\">Finally the day arrived,<br \/>\nCutting through barriers, that challenge and tire,<\/p>\n<p id=\"11hcv\" class=\"baDYm _1aFGu\">Through times of light and sometimes gloom,<br \/>\nFrom shoot to bud, now ready to bloom,<\/p>\n<p id=\"ca25i\" class=\"baDYm _1aFGu\">As the darkness melted in to a brand new morning,<br \/>\nAn impatience welling, an unstoppable longing,<\/p>\n<p id=\"d2dh8\" class=\"baDYm _1aFGu\">A restlessness for a glimpse of the maiden rays,<br \/>\nOf the giver of Life, the embodiment of Grace,<\/p>\n<p id=\"duvqf\" class=\"baDYm _1aFGu\">It was here, my moment of bliss,<br \/>\nThe magnificent Ra\u2019s caressing gentle kiss,<\/p>\n<p id=\"92mo8\" class=\"baDYm _1aFGu\">Coaxing open my layers with such preciousness,<br \/>\nEcstasy flooding my being, drowning in nothingness,<\/p>\n<p id=\"52je0\" class=\"baDYm _1aFGu\">My overlapping petals yielding in sweet abandon,<br \/>\nTo the glowing wave of Loving Compassion,<\/p>\n<p id=\"5l9it\" class=\"baDYm _1aFGu\">The essence of love in my core, being diffused,<br \/>\nA sweet scent wafting out as tribute,<\/p>\n<p id=\"bk68r\" class=\"baDYm _1aFGu\">In this state of Oneness it dawned upon me,<br \/>\nThat the reason I was born was for all to see,<\/p>\n<p id=\"5hqnh\" class=\"baDYm _1aFGu\">That in just being fragrant and still,<br \/>\nWas my life purpose being fulfilled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deep under, in murky waters, From tangled roots, rose a prayer, To sacred Earth, Water, Wind, Air, and Fire, For life yet again, my soul aspired, Several forms, by now&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10,9,6,7,8],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry","tag-awakening","tag-compassion","tag-lotus","tag-peace","tag-rise"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - 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