Alankar(Decor)-225 Poem by Indira Renganathan

Oh Durga(Trishtubh)

Tristubh trée-shtoobh (hymn, from the god of devas -shining ones
or nature spirits and originating from the flesh ofPrajapati)
is originally found in part of the Bhgavad Gita chapter 11 Verse 15 - 44
(including this phrase 'brighter than a thousand suns')
and makes up about 40% of the meters in the Rig-Veda.

Many of the The Veda meters are associated with body parts,
the Tristubh is associated with the chest and arms.
This ancient meter does appear in poetry centuries later connecting the content to the Vedic character
of the verse.

The Tristubh is:
stanzaic, written in any number of quatrains,4 padas or lines.
syllabic, of 11 syllables each. The heavy-light or guru-laghu pattern of the lines
is language specific
and probably impossible to duplicate in English. But for the purist you can try
by converting heavy-light to Long-short vowel sounds.
metric. The metric pattern would then be L or s L s L L - s s L s L L. (the first syllable may be either Long or short)

Oh Durga

Oh Durga, valour thine best may rise and fight
vanquish evil, oh, Durga, scare it away
May thine raged heart calm, may thine hands sow deep love
Peace thence to spring upon the breast of this earth