Silent Prayer Sri Aurobindo when shall I break free Of body, mind and ego's treachery, Of all these thousand shackles self-imposed And all within that still lies locked and closed. Have aspiration's embers cooled to ash Does sorrow suck the marrow of my soul Am I the flesh for flagellation's lash Limping towards some masochistic goal? Or is this but a stage where Death, the king Of nothingness has caught me in his snare, Who joys in loss inflicting with his sting A haunting grief that borders on despair. I know that I am Thine, my path assured When Mother lit the flame long years ago, Why then this stagnant space where I'm immured

Mary Helen, Mother's Child.htm Mary Helen, Mother's Child Though I have sought for inner peace The tears unbidden flow For one whose pain I cannot ease And cannot share or know. The time is past for desperate prayer Or pleadings for surcease, Our Mother who is everywhere Will grant her soul release And from the body's temple fly To secret worlds of bliss, Her soul eternal cannot die Who suffered Godhead's kiss.

God's Face In Our Humanity.htm God's Face In Our Humanity Into the dark and void unknown I stare, Sorrows streams cannot cleanse my heart Of pain too deep for mortal souls to bear Who from this human tragedy depart. For all we think we know is a charade And what we see as real illusion's mask, The world is an ephemeral parade The labour of Atlas or long Herculean task. I hear a sadness like a hollow drone Imposed upon the music of our life, Each bears the agony of loss alone, Father, mother, brother, sister, wife Pass on and leave the others to their grief. When cancer feeds on all but skin and bone Or the weak heart fails and like a falling leaf T

To Mary Helen – At Mother's Feet The Greater Realms of Light I have loved you since the morning of the world. When first you passed, a vision draped in blue, I saw the boon of heaven's joy unfurled And in a single moment's dawning knew That we as spirits joined would travel far And journey toward the greater realms of light Together, yet alone, the bright daystar Companion of our swift and godward flight. The days on rapid wings upbuoyed have flown And now we face the fate of karmic years And former births through which our souls have grown. Too close our hearts to suffer human tears, Each moment we must drin

Unblemished Rose I looked in former lives towards a shore I could not cross, rivers I could not ford, And dreamed of joys never known before And moments in the presence of the Lord. Then once, but once ,the holy fire swept Through body to the reaches of the soul And riveted by that great force I wept, As love upon my spirit softly stole. Awakened in Her splendid atmosphere All my life that moment would repeat, She smiled, a golden sun, as I drew near And lay my restless head upon Her feet. She guides my being to untold delight, Her Grace come down into my seeking soul, Unblemished Rose, God's power to unite, Her smile

Winter Haiku - Scroll VII Bare limbs, Stark canopies Deserted by the falling leaves. Snow banks A child's delight Hidden in these folds of white. Morning awoke Stiff and chill Battered by the storm-fraught night. Rabbit and seal, White on white Hidden by the day and night.

By the Deep Woods By the deep woods I sit apart, await Enlightenment upon these tragic days, Alone and yet so lovingly embraced By a timeless spirit's vast unhurried gaze. I have known compassion as I have known love And tenderness of souls who blaze the path That man may find in his heart strength from above And peace to heal the world's wanton wrath, Calm to bear this life's injustices, And persevere the plenitude of pain, To bear the agony of separateness That love on earth may found His splendid reign And children we of one divine delight Arise and conquer by the Godhead's might.

In The Mother's Flame-White Presence.htm In The Mother's Flame-White Presence 12/18/01 As one who walks into an eye of storm Where all is stilled and every sound suppressed, Or in the vast of space devoid of form Who entered in Her room was ever blessed. No mortal thought or word could scarce define The magnitude of love in which we stood For in Her presence all became divine And to the hungry soul She was the food That nourished the famished lodger in the breast, Adventurer and seeker of th

For Mary Helen Could I Forget Could I forget the glory of a smile That opened all my soul to unknown things, The aura of a grace I felt awhile, A voice the music of harmonious strings. Could I forget the new millennium – We meditated in Sri Aurobindo's room, Only an integer in the Infinite's sum, Remembrance of thee all my days illume. Could I forget the beauty and the grace That brightened all who came within thy sphere Or lose the vision of one perfect face, Eternal love allow to disappear? Departing in love, in love thou shalt return But now repose within our Mother's breast, To reach Her light my spirit's sole

Poet's Prayer.htm Poet's Prayer We will not ask of lesser Gods the Word Nor rend the breast when our Muse is fallen still, The True is from an inner silence heard And calm of mind and patient-seeking Will. Of words we have enough, enough of thought, The epic of the soul's advance is here In battlefields surpassing knowledge fought And realms the lonely vision of the Seer. Yet shall we pray the heart-inspired prayer To widen our embrace of life by love And if the mantra reach our burdened air Transcribe from rhythmed cadences above The lines that soar beyond the reach of time And join the singer to the Song sublime.