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# Plunge, hope, and rise—poetic perspectives
- URL: https://journal.jatan.space/plunge-hope-and-rise-poetic-perspectives/
- Published: 2025-06-01T12:17:15.000Z
- Updated: 2025-06-01T13:42:53.000Z
- Author: Jatan
- Tags: Essays & Musings, Verses

I recently read [lyrical poems](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59849330-lyrical-poems?from%5Fsearch=true&from%5Fsrp=true&qid=MioaSyD7br&rank=1) by [Aurobindo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sri%5FAurobindo), an Indian freedom fighter, philosopher, and writer. Some of his verses capture deep views on life, and you can almost live through the emotional cycle of progress.

## The fall

> But suddenly there soared a dateless cry,  
> Deep as Night, imperishable as Time;  
> It seemed Death’s dire appeal to Eternity,  
> Earth’s outcry to the limitless Sublime.

*– The Life Heavens*

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## Gathering hope

> The day ends lost in a stretch of even,  
> A long road trod — and the little farther.  
> Now the waste-land, now the silence;  
> A blank dark wall, and behind it heaven.

*– Journey’s End*

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## The rise

> Who art thou that camest  
> Bearing the occult Name,  
> Wings of regal darkness,  
> Eyes of an unborn flame?  
>  
> Like the august uprising  
> Of a forgotten sun  
> Out of the caverned midnight  
> Fire-trails of wonder run.  
>  
> Captured the heart renouncing  
> Tautness of passion-worn strings  
> Allows the wide-wayed sweetness  
> Of free supernal things.

*– Who art thou that camest*

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I happened to pick up this book during my recent solo trip to Puducherry. It was well worth it.

![](https://journal.jatan.space/content/images/2025/06/puducherry-rock-beach.jpg)

From [Rock Beach](https://maps.app.goo.gl/jbBeBMZEi5BFNGhZ8), Puducherry