Akka Mahadevi poems
Akka Mahadevi(1130 - 1160 / Uduthadi / India)
Show Me Your Way Out
- by Akka Mahadevi 22
Like a silkworm weavingher house with love
from her marrow,
and dying
in her body's threads
winding tight, round
and round,
I burn
desiring what the heart desires.
Cut through, O Lord,
my heart's greed,
and show me
your way out,
O Lord white as jasmine
Sunlight Made Visible
- by Akka Mahadevi 20
Sunlight made visiblethe whole length of a sky,
movement of wind,
leaf, flower, all six colours
on tree, bush and creeper:
all this
is the day's worship.
Night and day
in your worship
I forget myself
O lord white as jasmine.