Song For A Beautiful Soul Aug. 23, 2011 I set aside desire's hands To see you as you truly are A vision come from eastern lands Or fallen from some distant star, A miracle of flowering grace A song that quickens in my heart The haunting beauty of your face A Masterpiece of the Maker's art. And yet I know that you are more Than hand might touch or eye might see, A living goddess to adore A wave of laughter charming me To silence as I gaze awhile And bask in the sunlight of your smile.

The Reign of Evil Ends April 8, 2011 Now the darkness fast descends, On earth the broken bodies lie Terrorism takes its toll Beneath an ever watchful eye That sees and knows and sanctions all Till evil from our hearts is gone And lifted is death’s sombre pall, The Light of Truth on earth is won And the reign of evil ends.

This Being Yields May 16, 2011 Who within this body cries Against the worlds atrocities Who counsels me to seek within To find the cause of life's disease? Who comes in dreams to counsel me Protect me from the enemy, To conquer my desires and fears And turns me towards divinity. Who guides these hands, this wayward mind That before the hour I may find What I have sought through endless years Sought and found though still half blind, Who am the more I must become Though body slows and senses numb And often feel the hour nears Yet will not yield though burdensome This pain that gnaws yet slowly heals. Remembrance through my

Dreams July 17, 2011 Once more a rush of dreams that correspond To nothing I have known or felt before It seems as if malignant forces try To enter through the inner sanctum's door. They fail, for I am undisturbed and wake To view them as they truly are, unreal To soul experience, but now must learn The reason why they intrude and why I feel When deep in sleep, uneasiness and pain That those I love should act with venomous zeal, Unnatural with harsh unloving word And all the calm supporting me unseat.

Love All July 20, 2011 "Love all, no exceptions", said the voice, Not as command but speaking to my soul. Clearly it spoke, I heard and shall obey, See the faults of others as my faults, Meet hostility and violence with calm, Returning love in every circumstance And realize that I must grow within, Myself to change who cannot change the world By outward means, but gaining peace within Amid the despoliation and deceit Of forces inimical to life and love. The daily prayer must be of offering, Surrender to the One ingeniously Hidden in the seed and in the stone, To dedicate the self, this breathing clay, Past, present and future give to him And

Moment of Release July 15, 2011 In the signal moment of a soul's release When it floats above the body it has borne And looks upon an earth well-known and loved, A frame that time has ebbed away and worn, Blesses those who cherished through the years The love it gave and more than love returned, Departing now to realms of rest and bliss To see again the spheres from which it turned To feel again the thrill of rapture's kiss, Descended here in a dense human mould Our sorrow's tears should cease and pain be brief The tale of birth and death a story told By those who now no longer suffer grief United with the splendour at its source, Vibran

Song of the Youthful Soul March 10, 2011 O sing to me of summer and the days When beauty walked unwounded through the land Our fathers held in reverence, with praise To unknown gods they tilled with conscious hand. O teach me all the secrets of the earth, How flowers yield their fragrance to the sky, The wonderment and mystery of birth And life; why sadness comes and love must die. O sing to me of our lost harmony, How man creates and why he must destroy, Of beauty's touch and instants of ecstasy, Why sorrow tinges every face of joy. O teach me to find my soul that dwells within And know myself a being born of light, Freed from th

Roses March 24, 2011 I have known you roses, far across the sea Braving the blistering humidity, Your beauty tried in a struggle to survive. In your home of light do you remember me? I have seen you, roses, where the cool Pacific winds Anoint you with their fleeting fog that binds Lover to lover who would forever live Far from the ugliness of human minds Who distort and darken beauty with their thought. O roses with the power poets sought When poetry and rhythm were alive And metred the soul of loveliness you caught Surviving in hostile climates to withstand Torrential rain, to grow upon the sand. In the harshest of conditions still you thrive

The Vision Into Which I Grow March 11, 2011 I have lived a dream of Auroville and prayed For peace among the scattered tribes of men. A fateful hand upon my head was laid That I might not relive the past again. In my heart a deepened longing stirs For beauty and the advent of the light, Majestic soaring of the solemn firs And countless stars upon the loom of night. Here the land is difficult and hard To penetrate its clay and gravel base But I was called by the voice of God And carried to this dry and barren place To plant, to labour, that I in time might know Myself and the vision into which I grow.

The Mark of Divinity August 12, 2011 Open the doors of wonder And the casements of shuttered night Let break upon the wakening soul A vision bathed in light. Release from the grasp of darkness This being trodden down By pain and ignorance and death That God may spring full-grown From that which now is clay Mould a living form of thee Thy image from our dust That closed and blinded eyes may see In all the mark of divinity.