For Mary Helen From Future Stars I deemed a soul from future stars Descending blessed my human eyes, A vision etched on golden jars Fronting the gates of Paradise. From deeps of silence rose her smile And calm surrounded her that night She chose on earth to toil awhile Missioned by the growing light. Upon her frail and weakened frame There fell a radiance and Grace And I in silence spoke the Name; Through Love I saw the Beloved's face.

Timeless By Thy Feet Here where the eyes of the world pry not nor see, In a room of sleep I kneel before Thy feet And speak to Thee as a child of eternity Of being's aspiration, Thy grace entreat To unclasp the iron stranglehold of mind And open to us the gates of lasting peace Where those who seek the well of silence find Pain's acquittance and soul's immense release, Who take up swiftly life's divergent parts Offer the dull recalcitrance of thought, Exchange all vital moods for psychic arts, Warrior-souls who in timeless battles fought

I Have Felt Desire I have felt desire slough from me Like a mangy cur retreating sullenly To slip into its dank and darkened den With lips asneer at the arrogance of men Who think to break the welded chains of fate, Unaware that evil's force can wait And enter with a horrifying roar At the slightest jar of the unprotected door. I know eternal vigilance must win The guardianship of soul ere I begin To feel the psychic being in command And make the leap the veiled creator planned When first the soul took birth in measured time Di

The Ashram - Early Days Remembering the hallowed atmosphere Of silence and the charged and sacred ground We lived upbuoyed by wings of Force no fear Could penetrate, and we her captives bound By a smile that opened on eternity. We were children then, happy by her feet Content to be and all our destiny Assured, and death a chimera or cheat To be dissolved in the radiance of her light. Nothing we knew of the battlefield within Or scaling of a far forbidding height The soul from dark inconscient night to win. Now mid the chaos and cacophony Awakened our being gathers round its sun And the world of ego-rule turns to flee B

Sonnet to the Creatrix of all Worlds I searched the great religions' occult ways And arcane truths of the mystical elite But found no living sustenance to embrace Until I touched my head to Mother's feet. In a room where space and time were meaningless We moved to Her through a charged and pregnant air, Lost in the moment of Her rapturous caress Our life fulfilled to kneel before Her chair. We knew not of the agony She endured Absorbing the pain of our ego-driven race In petty wants and appetites immured We followed not Her evolution's pace. Now Her body lies beneath the Tree And She in stillness moulds our dest

Rose of My Soul 9/19/00 I have seen her on the summit steps of being And sought her in the sweep from sea to sky Glimpsed her golden through an inner seeing And bowed before her luminous majesty. I voiced my disputation with the night Its stubborn opposition and transgress Of truth that built the world for joy and light And life that lives alone by Her largesse.

Prayer of Gratitude to Mother and Sri Aurobindo March 23, 2000 Could I but see Thee clearly In all thy formless glory Mother of all heavens And the seven sacred earths. Thou hast donned the mantle Of humanity Upbearing by divine largesse All life-forms in thy hands. Radiant force of the Lord Timeless is thy beauty Timeless is thy grace And infinite thy love. In ageless moments visiting Our world in human time O form immaculate Descending to uplift

The Emerging Face of Divinity January 1, 2000 All beautiful is Thy Hand has wrought Among the stars and galaxies, In every form there may be caught Thy miracled infinities. The plants' perfection and élan Counsels me to know the stone But as the leap from ape to man The key resides in Thee alone. And in this age a full descent Of the Lord of Life in human birth, The promised hour of divine advent Begins the Life Divine on earth. Our vaunted knowledge flying goes Upon the winds of uncertainty For mind cannot kn

Into a Bright Reality I Came Into a bright reality I came Over the edge of dream to borderlands Where flesh and spirit inherently the same Obeyed the fluting-call of God's commands. I felt the rising sap within the tree And the soft caress of sunlight charging leaves And knew our lives a holotype of Thee In golden morns and star-encrusted eves. Delight of my days and crowning majesty, The surreal beauty of the slow descending sun Throwing its final fire to the sky When love and joy and life and light were one.

From the Carapace of Mind Will we in future ages wake to Thee Who now infuse the marrow of our frame Or union find while breath and blood run free And the secret of our soul's delight reclaim. For man his infancy of mind outgrown Confronts an age and self whose darkness hides A gem of rarest cut, its brilliance shone In worlds preceding Form where Light resides. Upon the precipice's edge we peer Into that vast Unknowable to find That all is He and abrogating fear, All the knots of ego-self unwind, Suffer the endless miracle of Grace