Teach Me Wonder What heights this limited mind can reach Failing the stars, the sky, the trees, All remains for you to teach, The great transcendent mysteries, To leave the body and explore Worlds beyond our mortal sight, Realms of life beyond the door That calls us to the house of light. Teach me wonder and how to praise The insignificant and mean, To live the fullness of my days, Where now I go from where I’ve been.

Invoking the Light Sept. 24, 2010 And when I fell as oft I fell from grace, Consciously preferred the darkened place That shelters in between the heart and soul Turning away from the ever-brightening goal. It was as if some being tempted me From loneliness to feel my spirit free, But his way is treacherous and hollow ground Swallows up one's life and all around Voices speak of dying and of death. With pain-filled lungs I gasped for one more breath To call the saviour Name in my distress And feel again Her hand and love's caress – But the undertow of our past lives remains, The ill intent, the mark of evil's stains Or simply our refusal

Breath By Breath   The young are sure they will not die And if they die, what of it then, They were not meant to slowly age Amid the aging bones of men. The beautiful cannot grow old And lose the loveliness of eyes The blush of rose upon a cheek An elegance that time defies, Fading blossoms year by year, Dying softly week by week; The quiet ones are most aware Of mortal life’s fragility, With calm acceptance see the days Merge into eternity. The learned ones know death the best As the door that lets life through To gather in a natal rest And then the joyous quest renew. The saints and sages know not death Who take God in breath b

Love Shall Enshrine Sept. 29. 2010   I will not take the drink tonight that dulls Or swallow tablets easing me to sleep But listen to the rain that softly lulls This weary heart to rest; I shall not weep For beauty lost, her ashes in foreign seas Far from this sleepy town where I alone Recall her smile, her gentle will to please. She is taken by the Shade and I atone For all my moments of forgetfulness Plodding my way to a destiny unknown, Returning again to feel her sweet caress. Will the soul that slowly grows within this breast Recognize her when it too must leave And tenderly is taken to its rest? If so I shall rejoice, no mor

The Habitat Divine November 17 2010 I laughed and through my laughter I grew young And heard again the strange and haunting call. It seemed a flute from far-off India Or choir from the snow-clad Russian steppes, A cricket song slowed down to human years Or a thousand sacred voices chanting OM. I heard the future music drifting down Through bodies numberless aspiring, Transforming and uniting by its force Of love the unhealed grievances of life. I sang as one enchanted and I knew That beauty would survive the Kaliyug, Enlightened souls bring down the heavens here All earth become the habitat divine.

The Guidance of the Soul Sept. 22, 2010 Is the fog of my desire lifting now As the sun through densest clouds breaks through, Is the ego-sense dissolving so that I May walk into the unknown and the new? Is the body too awaking from its sleep The lethargy of programmed cells to die, To valiantly accept transforming light And rend the veil of life’s obscurity? Repetitive and weak and hardly used Has mind at last relinquished its control, Of random thoughts that enter it at will, Can all accept the guidance of the soul And merge in Her surrendered and alive, For this my hopes, my life, my dreams I give.

Awake, O Soul My inner being spoke to me, saying It is a small world you live in Narad, Very small, have you no wings to fly? You sleep and dream unconsciously through night Or occupied with thoughts that linger on In the echoing chambers of the physical mind; Learn to soar above the sameness of days, The established routines developed through the years. Yes, you are growing younger one can see And the body slowly wakes to new-found strength But the mind still weak needs to concentrate And open to the higher planes to know What lies within the hidden psychic core. Awake, O soul, and rise above yourself.

Gift of Rose Mar. 15, 2010 Youth in all its sweetness comes Running to my open door, And I with arms of joy outstretched Embrace her beauty and adore. Day falls into languid night The tropic heat a furnace grows As wondrous eyes gaze at me With love that would my heart enclose. The seasons bring their transience, With dew-filled morns and auguries, Of gardens winking in the sun And wind-swept earth that coats the trees. How many dawns are left to play In the flower-fields that call to me I reckon not nor do I care For I am young and young shall be, Her love all shattered grief repairs With loveliness that love bestows Of perfumed ja

Heaven Transplant December 19, 2010 How shall denuded earth her body heal If man continues his destructive course, Is there still hope the deadened heart might feel? How shall we reconcile a species lost And beauty trampled in the mud and dust Of once vast forests rising to the sun. Can we yet overcome our greed and lust Our unslaked thirst for power and dominion? Now have we heard of a supernal force Descended here to charge the living cells, To set the soul upon its rightful course And heaven transplant into our self-made hells.

In One Transforming Day Icebergs like a fragment of my thoughts Drifting in a clear and tranquil sea, Strains of melodies beyond the stars Floating through the vaults of infinity, I hear a voice known from some distant past That speaks of lives and loves lived long ago, Of soul that does not die though body fall And divine experience still to know. Sometimes these earthly years seem not enough To grow in light and love towards that sun Reflecting the light that is for evermore. I feel the inward journey scare begun, Through every trial and every stumble and fall I know uplifting grace is with me still, Resolute to offer and