Sublime

Telugu literature’s infamous brothers-in-law poets Srinatha and Pothana – the former a Hedonistic poet and the latter a devotional poet who would bow down to no king, but only the god he believed in.

Votaries

Unlike the fierce (Raudra) forms of Devī such as Kāli, Lalitā is playful and sweet. Like a concerned mother, she indulges our petty desires at times, and scolds us at other times for our follies, but at all times she leads us to the highest truths of the path.

Tomad, Señor; y recibid toda mi libertad, mi memoria, mi entendimiento y toda mi voluntad, todo mi haber y mi poseer; Vos me lo disteis, a Vos, Señor, lo torno; todo es vuestro, disponed a toda vuestra voluntad. Dadme vuestro amor y gracia que ésta me basta (234).

Invocation Gaṇeśa-graha-nakṣatra-yoginī-rāśi-rūpiṇīm | Devīm mantra-mayīm naumi mātṛkāṁ pīṭha-rūpiṇīm || I humbly bow to that supreme Devī who is the embodiment of the gaṇeśas, planets, stellar configurations, yoginīs, constellations, mantras, the matrix of language, and sacred sites. –Nityā Śodaṣikārṇava 1:1

When it comes to poems, try to step it up: Learn to recite your favorite ones by heart. Practice until they live inside you.