Daily Poem: From “The Sun” ~ Vidyakara

December 5, 2016 | Filed Under Poem for Hela | Comments Off on Daily Poem: From “The Sun” ~ Vidyakara

From “The Sun”
~ Vidyakara
Translated from Sanskrit by Daniel H. H. Ingalls, Sr.

I praise the disk of the rising sun
red as a parrot’s beak, sharp-rayed,
friend of the lotus grove,
an earring for the goddess of the east.

Red Sunrise over Reykjavik by Óttar Sveinsson

Red Sunrise over Reykjavik by Óttar Sveinsson

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