How to Overwhelm the Un-Overwhelmed

“How to overwhelm the un-overwhelmed?”
From rustling leaves the unquestionable question was posed
With Zephyr encouraging in restless dance
And the world marveling at a good good chance

But how to overwhelm unoverwhelmed
To embrace to my cozy heart your vast vast queendom
To have inner throbs with the same rhythmic waves
And to suck sweetness from your virgin place

And ’tis how to overwhelm unoverwhelmed
By enjoying our life like theistic lambs
When every propitious blessing to us from holyland
Accompanying our goodselves and what’s in our hands

So to overwhelm unoverwhelmed
We worship love with which all may be overwhelmed


This  sonnet of mine (composed in 1987) received the International Library of Poetry Editor's Choice Award of 2001 and was published in the poem collection "Devotions of the Mind", Library of Congress ISBN 0-7951-5006-7.

( Comments by International Library of Poetry: "This poem is more than a music of language. It’s a variable painting of imagination. Any further description would only fail to do a justice.")