Her by Hamant Singh

A poem about embracing and surrendering to chaos.

First published in the author’s poetry collection, The Sibyl (2022), from Partridge Publishing Singapore.

​From the author:

‘Her’ is a poem about the chaotic Sublime, through observations of the ocean and a tsunami. The poem likens the ocean to a woman’s body and explores surrender to the Sublime. Chaos is examined not as something godlike and fear-inducing but as a force that can be embraced only through surrender. Fundamentally, the poem is both a hymn to and an exercise in Chaosophy.

(for Her)

Her ravishing roar silenced
By Her whispering ebb.
A repetitious humdrum
That was far from the mundane.
A piercing pulchritude that mocked time.
I am swollen with deafening infinity.

The radiant sun spares no one.
As She scattered her rays
The sparkles danced off waves.
Ain lay before me and it was everything.
Powerless to shift my stare
While the glistening gripped my soul.

The salty scent that fills my being
The burn of the sting from the salt.
Intoxicating. She had not touched me
But she had and left me drunk as
My empty shell washed ashore.
Inebriated, dizzy, ecstatic where I lay.
Nor did I want to be elsewhere
For what more would I need to seek?

The terrific, the terrifying,
Her majesty, Her magnificence!
Her wrath churned the waters.
I stood rooted, awestruck,
As Her advances threatened on the horizon—
Take me, I am yours to devour.
The waves rise and tower above me.

I am helplessly consumed by the immense
As I am willingly swallowed by
Her

Hamant Singh is a Singaporean writer who is influenced by horror, different cultures and the occult. In 2022, he completed his first collection of poems titled The Sibyl.

Awards/Nominations:

• 2022 Rhysling Award Nominee (Inseparable from The Sibyl)

• 2022 Bram Stoker Award Preliminary Ballot (Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection) (The Sibyl)

• 2023 Elgin Award Nominee

He currently resides in Mexico where he enjoys writing, reading and making music. Hamant is currently working on a fifth release in collaboration with an Irish artist.

Instagram: @hamantsingh218 Facebook: @hamant218

If you’d like to support the author, you can purchase his books here.

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