Sacred Lotus this sacred lotus, this eternal seed propagating within me tuberous shoots of divine beauty, purity, divinity, deeply spiritual, medicinal, ornamental a hindu radiance, a revered inflorescent durga6, parvati7 this lotus of india, a tropical tempered aquatic botanical, obconic plumage, perennially afloat, a centrally stalked sensuous leaf floating above the water’s shallow depth running deep within the fertile mud loam8 of my floodplains, my shallow ponds and pools,
The Hindu goddess of fertility, love devotion; divine strength and power. She is the gentle, nurturing aspect of the Hindu goddess Shakti and one of the central deities of the Goddess-oriented Shakta sect. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parvati 7 Ibid. 8 A soil with roughly equal proportions of sand, silt, and clay. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loam 6
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