Endless the Dawn In sequences remote from memory's call I dreamed a sky, a living fire of bliss. Moods then suffused with altar incense spires, Come pain-etched now in ice and crystal nights. Slender blossoms on thread-like boughs Sigh softly as the loving hand draws near; And all these foreign fears of loneliness Vanish at the moment's fleeting touch. Through forested domains our feet shall find The radiant paths of light Her children know; Endl

The Final Descent 'Homage' .htm The Final Descent "Homage" - Jan. 17, 1971 In the hollow of his hand he held the sun, Small as a candle in an endless cave. He gave it warmth by the breath of his being, A blazing diamond in the core of earth. With might he descended the fathomless realm Armoured in truth sole guardian of light, Calm as the steel of a shimmering sword Reflecting the force of its latent thrust. Descending, the realms of the dying drew near, The soul's ambiguities never resolved. Beings he saw though human in form Were peopled with pregnant hostility.

Thy Love Endures - July 29, 1975 One must be unbending, firm, Know the voice of the soul is all, Grief unbidden give no room To inhibit the progress of our days. Tears spilled from unhappy years , Grief and loneliness cast out The human edifice weld with fire. No failure accept, self-pity raze To learn the reason we are here. In Thee all fullness and all joy Call the heart to bliss and moments Wonderful because thou art.

Enroute to Auroville - April 22, 1975 I saw in flaming moon-gold softly draped Down the star-cut steps of consciousness Descending, angels of the night's surcease. A daylight dream it was and hard the sun Blazed violently the cloud-webs of my eyes. Feet of such white silence, breath be held, The moment not to break with sound or sighs. Then waking I slept while knowing dream more real Than the rushing of the stream of leafless thoughts That trouble the hour and the depths r

Shadow-Self A shadow-self, a doppelganger's ghost Reflected in the mirror of my days Pursues me now, illusionary host Debauchee of sorrow my quest delays. A stranger dwells within unknown to me Flagellant and penitent of pain, Questioning the spirit's right to be The body's guide to an immortal reign. Nothing do I see and nothing know. O World whose beauty once so brightly shone Reveal again the way, some light bestow Before the shades are drawn and darkness grown To vast dimensions swallowing the light, My soul condemned to some eternal night.

O World Unite Us How swiftly the willows burst forth their green cascades As if they overslept in winter's arms And hurriedly dress to greet the bride of Spring. And those whom death has severed in their bloom, Can we reborn to beauty know rebirth In vernal splendour with the beloved lost? Remember us earth in the grasses we have sown. In summer's intense caress can we renew The flame of life that burned so brightly then? O sacred soil remember us in the trees. As Autumn captivates the hearts of men And forests glow like fires in the dawn Can we who knew each subtle shade of love, The coloured wings of passion and desire, The soft-white calm

False Avatar He spoke of Christ the Lord, and all the saints, Revered the Buddha, a lover of Krishna too, Dismissed as meaningless our weak complaints United Muslim, Hindu, Christian, Jew. He had the gift of tongues and eyes so bright They burned like giant searchlights on the sea. We gathered weekly sharing his delight, The lonely seeker and the devotee. He wove a net of wonder round our souls Exhorting us to seek the God within, Reminded us of oft forgotten goals, He seemed divinely pure and without sin. The young who seek are easily relieved Of commonsense; desirous to embrace Each silver word of gospel are deceived By a silk

Divine Love Governing the World* 11/14/03 The ashes of thy body now I place Most tenderly my love beneath the Tree. Protecting branches shelter thee with grace, And love shall guide thy soul eternally. I cannot say with final certainty That I have moved beyond the plane of grief Or see thy death the soul's necessity That shakes my spirit like a falling leaf, I only know our lives are in His care. Humbled by the blessings of this day I feel a love that permeates the air, The honour and the privilege of the way. One called us to the adventure of consciousness Upon this earth, a scheme divinely drawn By the prescient arch

For Mary Helen Eternal Marriage I wear the nuptial band, the soul's embrace Made physical in dense matter's world, But in this denseness is there still not space For ether, fire, God, in atom's mould? The body's sensuous attraction palls Before the light in the beloved's eyes And something in the inner nature calls Remembrance of those lost eternities. A recognition from the vasts of space, A conscious union of souls no longer blind, In unknown bodies knowledge of a place Beyond the settled precincts of the mind. In a blue-white flame was forged the ring of love No force can separate nor death remove.

For She Awaits I will draw the force around me like a flame Protecting and enveloping the soul And call Her till the walls of ego fall Tumbling into seas of nothingness That I may stand unclothed in that bright dawn The torn and tattered vestments of past lives Discard for One within me clothed in light And all the world turn suddenly divine. Am I not he who has followed in her train The Mother star who lights the pilgrim's way, Through many a birth and death her face revealed Or glimpsed ascending peak to higher peak. Are we not comrades, kin through countless lives Descending through unnumbered realms to birth On this conscious