Homage to Sri Aurobindo May 1999 Perhaps my thought was a deeper seeing When the mind fell still and the inner being Seemed to hear his voice from the silent page Speak softly of the coming age. My heart attuned, my body heard From the Lord of Life the mantric Word Of earth transformed and by His kiss Rewed to beauty, man to bliss. A sweetness descending from realms above Borne earthward on the wings of love Envelopes our lives and immortal, brings The Godhead’s touch to mortal things. Slowly the golden light draws near

Father and Friend Father and friend I mourn you not. Through all the tribulations of your days Your love held close essential things and taught Eternal values found in humble ways. In the stormy discourse of the passing years, Compromise replaced love's amplitude, In a marriage fraught with bitterness and tears Uneasy truce a frail and thin veneer. Though all my heart was wedded to your fate And suffered more the more your distanced lives And angered words did finally alienate The unity your marriage vows had sought. Of the anger and its cause

Equation of My Life I have failed to do the homework of the soul. The mathematics of the Infinite Have yet to learn, the sole supporting number Of the All. And hardly can I add To this sum of life the vast beatitudes That multiply with each aspiring breath. Division disappears but still the ego Rules in the accounting book of days And must be stricken from final page And in the spirit's ledger summed as nought. To balance all these integers that pass As multiples of earth's variety And know the spirit can alone compute The hidden decimals of divinity. To add to the

Will There Be New Songs? 1999 All is breaking up to be rebuilt, Destroyed and simultaneously renewed Catastrophe upon catastrophe, Matter yielding to the spirit's touch That Nature may walk unburdened of man's fate. All coalesces round a golden light Powdering into a million infinitudes, Permeating the cellular nucleus, A still point working its atomic change, The celestial Singer descending earthward in song.

Paean to My Daughter Nov. 1999 Infinity's child blessed us by her birth, Daughter from a light I own not yet But see on the soul's horizon brightly gleaming. Daughter of constant wonder, depth and delight, Woman and mother, calm and gracious soul A benediction gives to each and all. We, the fortunate ones, have watched her grow In childhood's days at the dawn of Auroville, Inspired to a path of gentleness. A conscious soul through all her formative years, Bearer of a quiet joy she brings Her sweet and

I Have Known a Love I have known a love transcending mere desire Who through ages unremembered blesses me, In whose lucent eyes a sweet and holy fire Burns, as we together grow towards Thee. So many thy gifts I humbly do avow And of these surely she the eternal gift; Descending the peace and stillness gather now As to Thy Light our souls in concert lift. Dawns sweetly the awareness of Thy Grace Informing every breath, each step I take, A flaming offering fills the sacred space All past attachments quietly now forsake. In silence hear the psych

At Her Feet - Birthday 7/29/72 I entered the room and saw Her in the chair And moved to Her with supplicating hands. Time disappeared, I felt in that puissant air A vastness as on heaven's borderlands. As I knelt and placed my forehead on her feet My small concerns and burdened cares released In an endless moment her wondrous smile to meet, And feel Her love as all my thinking ceased. My soul looked out from behind its protecting veil And in the flame of Her penetrating gaze It knew a timeless truth that would prevail, Her truth upon creation to em

On Dying October 1999 The mystics affirm that shortly before we die, As in a cinematographic show There pass before us the stations of our life, Its highest peaks of love and sacrifice And gathering these to a resting place we go Where the psychic being in rapt absorption builds The vessel of its immanent descent.

In the Ashram Courtyard - 2 Solemn men - and simply clad In flowing dhotis silently Across the courtyard, fragrance-filled, Move with grave intensity. Fierce-browed or smiling, they see beyond The temporal to timeless things Through aeskesis and austerity Imbue the peace that godhead brings. Men like us yet not like us Who view a world that hardly we In sudden moments of illumined sight Or psychic opening could see. Unmoved by storms of violence Unswayed by passion's gusts, at ease They stand aloof from sorro

Cosmos Flower 9/9/99 - 9 a.m. In the cosmos flower is mirrored creation's goal Its vivid hues impress on the inner eye Godhead's sanction to the surrendered soul That flowers forth by the hand of deity. All the blossoms of the earth attest To the grandeur of the gnostic being's delight Moving through the moments of our lives, Awake in our sleep, illumining our night.