Kali’s Dance

Watercolor by Radha Chetna Laxhmi

The ocean rises to cushion Kali’s feet
The war-dancer
Savage
Divine

The creator of all that eye can see
The goddess of death
The keeper of time

Bathed in blood
Clothed in victory
Killer of planets
Mother of the Multiverse
She lets the sickled waves of Varuni wash away her fury

Varuni delights
Colored by the seven rivers
Ganga’s sage foam
Yamuna’s alexandrite blue
Godavari’s sap swells in her valleys
Saraswati’s diamond music rings true
Narmada’s crushed sapphire
Sindhu’s emerald hue
Add Kaveri’s lapis to the mix
Richly, the primordial sea Ksheer is imbued

Kali dances her dance
Accompanied by her handmaidens
The music of thunderclaps rhymes in the black sky
The war-dancer rests
Just for a moment

~
Radha

In response to the prompt Evolution of Goddess by Vaishali Paliwal

P.S. Happy Navratri!