Live Within the Light July 16, 2011 In this unprecedented hour of change Beleaguered as we are by poverty Of soul and chastened by incompetence, Unable to solve the enigma of the world, A few committed to a divine ideal Gather silently by the relics installed In Centers of illumined consciousness, Vibrating with His love and light and force. One is recharged and for a moment calmed As the traffic of the world speeds by, And I, well, I must concentrate the mind On the object I have chosen to adore, For He who dwells in me is ever my lord Who counsels me to live within the Light, Guides and showers all my soul with Grace, And She to wh

Daytime Dream June 29, 2011 I fell to sleep and in my sleep I dreamt. A daytime dream it was, of vital worlds. I saw the images that stain the soul, A danger-filled and dark, degrading place. I woke myself to cast from me these forms, Yet when I slept, again they came in force. I turned away, abhorred by what I saw No part of me these visions could abide, But waking I was calm and peace returned. The images unable to bear light Dissolved as dust in morning's brilliant glow As all must go who would the Grace resist As beauty manifests to wakened eyes And joy is born on silver wings of song.

Who Looked Upon July 13, 2011 In Her I found what few men see And fewer still can feel The impress of Divinity The bearer of God's seal. I knelt as one who searched through years The secret of it all, The heights of love, the vales of tears From sudden rise to fall, From those eternal spheres now lost Where once I knew such peace. To reach Her count not any cost For all regained in Her again, All beauty and all grace. A light divine She cast on men Who looked upon Her face.

Dona Nobis Pacem March 24, 2011 She smiles, a warm and beatific smile, What lies beneath I have not skill to know And yet I've seen the treachery and guile And the length of the deceits to which men go; Not seeing deep I have borne scars untold Time upon time and still I blindly trust Until with love I shall all life enfold And shake from me the centuries of dust. Then will I when illusions veils are rent With inward glance see the truth to be, This world remade by a divine intent And hear the voices from eternity Sing their songs and bid us chant with them As we cry, Dona Nobis Pacem.

Peace Shall Reign August 9, 2011 Untroubled by the voices of the world, Unveiled as yet the God who hides within, Unknown and yet the comrade of our dreams, Our prayers, our dreams and hopes as yet unfilled We would meet him in the sanctum and the crowd The friend whose thousand failures are our own, Whose struggles in this body also his, Where can we go without him by our side What can we do or possibly achieve Without his sanction to the growing soul? Yes, all is he but little we perceive, Our eyes are fixed upon the darker side, Of life that suffers seeking transient joys Content to live awhile then disappear Into religion's heaven or

Why Are We Here? August 9, 2011 We stand upon a crossroad as we gaze And watch the world's traffic speeding by, A vast computer dominates our days As we recall lost beauty with a sigh And look upon a world gone awry. Destruction on a superhuman scale Tears into the fabric of our lives Powerless to act our leaders fail Unable to quell dissent anger thrives And now the voice of anarchy arrives And finds its dwelling in the heart of man. But all our 'isms' fail and we are left To change ourselves within is all we can, Our future taken from us we feel bereft Of our humanity and the gift Of life ending in the hour of death. But a

Standard-Bearer Jan. 18, 2011 Until the mind is settled in its calm And the sorrows of the world no longer mine, No peace can come to compass my ascent. For I would be other than I am, No longer tied to a mechanic round Of stale ideas and petty wants and needs But on strong pinions freely soaring forth Discovering within these latter days The truth that One foretold long years ago. Unless the consecrated Self announce Its mastery of body, life and thought And in the stillness of its wide uplift Bring down into this worn and tired flesh The light that will illumine and transform. Before t

Our Life is Meant August 9, 2011 We stand upon a crossroad as we gaze And watch the world's traffic speeding by, A vast computer dominates our days As we recall lost beauty with a sigh And look upon a world gone awry. Destruction on a superhuman scale Tears into the fabric of our lives Powerless to act our leaders fail Unable to quell dissent anger thrives And now the voice of anarchy arrives And finds its dwelling in the heart of man. But all our 'isms' fail and we are left To change ourselves within is all we can, Our future taken from us we feel bereft Of our humanity and the gift Of life ending in the hour of death. But

Upon the Path July 20, 2011 I write these lines that do not come from me, The source half-known but why and how and when Is not revealed; in calm moments of the soul When the rough world is hid from view, Shuttered out its darkness and deceit, I sit alone and look upon the face Revered through timeless centuries of love. Kunitz says the poems as blessings come Perhaps in answer to our inmost prayers, And yet with me in moments of gratitude, And in times past , moments of grief and pain Descend. I write and strive not with the mind To change the thoughts that lie beyond its scope. No visionary I and prosody Of little interest to the waking self.

Towards the Truth-Light II Oct. 8, 2011 Now the pansies and chrysanthemums Paint the landscape of the changing year And in my autumn change upon me comes. How many springs have passed me as I walked Unknowing with my hurried feet of clay. I am tired now, the waning year returns With griefs and memories I once had locked Away in brighter seasons, happier days. Each season has its beauty and the fall Of coloured leaf against a burnished sky Evokes a longing in the troubled heart. Earth prepares for its hour of tranquil rest And the white days that seem to cover sins. I find no rest, he seeking soul moves on, There