Quest September 1999 Now wakes the music in the soul that sings With joy and wonder of the parting veil And the heart that hungered long for higher things, The hope that soars in quest for the sacred grail.

Prayer for Auroville to Manifest Jan 1999 Incense flowers clear and bright Ablaze in the gardens of the night Upon my prayer their fragrance falls For you the world in darkness calls.

Negatives Imploding Violence will be rooted out by calm, Anger by a deep descending peace, Hatred by the presence of a love Encompassing a vision of unity. Darkness will be deposed by conscious light, Greed will diminish in the glow of offering, Power become the acting arm of truth And lust dissolve in the divine embrace: Falsehood destroyed in Superconscient's blaze, Sin abnegated, error corrected by Grace, Death made redundant by the truth-light's force.

Music and the Dance of Life Nov. 1999 At the edge of the inner vision's arc I caught A dancer from another space and time Whose feet descending earthward softly wrought The rhythmed joy of deity sublime. In a wondrous cloak enveloping our earth Compassionately She sang of other spheres And the coming of a superhuman birth, Encouraging cessation of our fears. One cannot know the force descending there, Supporting bodies resonant with Her call, The magnitude of light in Auroville's air And Her summoning

Remembrance in Morning Sept. 6, 1999 Eternal gratitude first and final word Of earth-born souls embattled who blindly seek Amid destruction, death and deafening din Of a pulsing humanity surging beyond its means, Grasping and groping to hold ephemeral toys, Lost on human highways in the commerce of life, While faintly heard and hardly yet obeyed, The spirit whispering softly in our hearts.

To The Silent Teachers of My Soul Dec. 15, 1999 I have lived among giants largely unaware Of their awesome spirit's strength and amplitude, All-powerful they veiled their force with care Presenting to the world their calm humility. Yet in the night when mind was safely sleeping They came to teach the lessons of the Law Of Being and by slow degrees their crude Disciple the wild and vital angst forbore And opened to

A New Light on Earth We who have wandered far from thee To explore a false identity Return attracted by a diamond light Ablaze as a beacon in the night. Who calls, the sated mind would know What force, what form, what afterglow Could move this being, content and sure Its earthly needs, its life secure? From whence the pull to leave these shores And venture forth without remorse, Forsake life's pleasures, left behind, To search with only hope to find The key to the mystic keepers gate The answer to the riddle of fate, And naked on

Shipwreck of the Mind Impelled by the breath of an unknown Divine This sailor of a thousand seas Of life begins his charted course To find at last his soul's release. In a new and finer ship he sails Seeking the land of his heart's desire, On an ocean of infinity Travels unsure of the inner fire. Wave upon wave assaults his prow Breaking upon his fragile frame Lightning stabs his burdened breast, Direction lost as lost his aim. Adrift on the seas of ignorance In the rudderless ship of reasoning mind, Captain of this bodily craf

Sonnet to Mary Helen Dec. 12, 1999 When the surgeon gently broke the news That death was waiting only weeks away And no hope remained but only to weep and pray We prayed and Grace descending did perfuse Our hearts. I kissed to sleep those lovely eyes So filled with silent tears, and held her smile That these long years my spirit did beguile With gentleness and love from brighter skies. Of strength she has sufficient in her soul To face the fierce Opponent in the cells Wherein the deep divinity also dwells,

Life Journey October 1999 Death and its ravaging hand hold nought for me Who tread an inner road unchecked by the hours And on the horizon see a transfigured earth And carry within a burning memory Of a golden lord and his fire-white bride Transforming earth by their love and sacrifice. Still now upon a lowly height I stand To view the vanguard march of warrior souls With unhurried feet traverse the sands of time. Inferior in thought, inconstant in will, A thousand thousand flaws I bring to Thee And pray for revealing light