Uroboros

About the great circle that is life

The mighty circle of life

By the Uroboros, personified

The myriad karmic threads of life

By the Uroboros, unified.

A drop from the soul stream falls

On Earth a child is born

Leaves behind the void walls

Spreads out its arms wide

Embraces humanity’s mighty halls.

The nascent stage of life,

By the Uroboros, sanctified

The new genesis of life

By the Uroboros, vivified

The young adult flies

Earthly shackles sturdily bind

To break the bonds he tries

Pulled back to the earth

He longs only for the skies.

The budding dreams of life

By the Uroboros, dignified

The strong longings of life

By the Uroboros, deified.

The imminent old age

He longs for the soul stream

The stars in the sky wage

An unrelenting pull for serenity

With death the final stage.

The mighty circle of life

By the Uroboros, personified

The myriad karmic threads of life

By the Uroboros, unified.

Reviews

[DrD]

Sid, I think someone would have to know India and the spirituality of its sites to appreciate the profound nature of this work. I was in New Delhi three years ago and went on to Nepal and had the opportunity to learn something of the energy of the spirit that moves across the land. Thank you for this one. I was drawn to it and it took me back.

[Sid]

Thank you Dr. glad you like it!!

[Salar Majak]

a cnfession XD i had to look "Uroboros'' on google after i read this poem, because it just made me so interseted in what that name represents.
anyways google said this: '' a sinful world of creation, surrounded by the Serpent of Eternity,''
i don't know how true this is but i liked it :), thanks for the poem and i would love to know more about the Uroboros

[Sid]

Whoa I dunno about google's allegation, I got interested in that symbol after listening to the song "Oroborus" by the band Gojira and took wikipedia's help, so here goes - Uroboros or Ouroboros is a symbol depicted as a serpent eating its own tail and stands for cyclicality of events, specifically regeneration at the completion of a cycle, kind of like something beginning anew as soon as it ends, life for example as one life ends another sparks into being. This poem is about that cycle and the poem itself is cyclic, the last stanza being the same as the first so you end at the birth of life just as a life ends...haaa, I think I blabbered too much hope this helps and thank you for the read and review.

[Salar Majak]

this helps alot :Pi guess that if you didn't understand a word in a poem the meaning gets lost, thinking about it from this point of veiw made me love it!!. thanks for the explanation

[Sid]

Sure I really like what that symbol signifies and again thanks for the review!!

[Salar Majak]

you are welcome:)