Divine Mother Silently I call and in the still And pain-filled night aware of your reply There surges from the deepest seat of will A gratitude that shall not fail nor die. No breaking sun through dense and storm-dark c loud Could match the light I saw within your eyes, Approaching you the holy, vain and proud Knelt down to kiss your feet then slowly rise Into a new-found vision and a vast Experience o

Once More Upon the Earth Now shall I take my sorrows and my joys And like a blanket of peace and tenderness Lightly upon this bed of earthly cares Cover them and hide from prying eyes The beauty and the sweetness I have known Late when the advancing years have crept Stealthily into this ageing house. Protect you r dreams my children from the world That would devour truth and good and right. The way before you opens like a rose With morning's first caress upon its buds. To live in light beyond the reason's scope, To labour for the world that is to be As we watch the dying generations fall, The spirit calls and our consent await

Returning Home Winter's welcome brings remembered chills In this isolated paradise in time The fragrant fields of golden daffodils Sole harbinger's of Spring's upward climb. But beauty rests so lightly in the trees Whose leafless limbs await the sudden flow Of life force upward coursing and the breeze Whose warming breath over the earth shall blow The soil to new awakening, release The grip of winter through the melting snow. I have returned to silence and it fills The soul with moments most sublime All longing and all sorrow in me stills And my spirit rests commensurate with peace.

Predestined Plan I will not age and at the final breath Joy will flow through artery and vein, There is no annihilation and no death, The soul survives and therefore, what is slain But a body used for spiritual gain. Beauty shall walk transparent on the earth, From inert matter new forms shall arise And all transform, a mighty second birth No force can abrogate, no heart despise The light divine from Her enchanting eyes. The change forerunners prophesied shall come, A higher life imbue the life of man Diversity survive as unity's sum, Truth reveal the great predestined plan Since the evolutionary thrust began.

To Lord Sri Aurobindo August 21, 1998 The alleluias of a million choirs Are as a tremulous note to the voice of prayer That rises up from consecration's fires Offering all to Thy omniscient care.

The Romance of You and Me I woke to see a frozen lake Beneath a frozen sky, And wondered if there was some mistake That the great so early die. I saw a living seer prepare to die And felt when breathing stilled the spirit leave Though to what sanctuary it did fly Remains a mystery and still I grieve For beauty lost to human sight, The oneness souls have shared Walking on the paths of light With all their spirit bared. I heard a laughter soft upon the ear A voice that spoke from some eternity "Go on boldly, what is there to fear This world is the romance of you and me."

I Seek in Solitude She seemed a vision with angelic face Come floating by on white feet of dream, Now of her beauty lingers not a trace Nor soul who could my errant soul redeem. In silent hours when only her laboured breath Departing this frail envelope so young Was heard and the slow stealthy tread of death, With wonders yet unseen and songs unsung, Aware that she must leave the form behind Upon this troubled, fated head did pour Her love and in my broken heart enshrined The image of the One I must adore My tears weighed down her wings of angel-flight And now I seek in solitude the light.

Compact with the Light I have loved and nothing more need be said To honour the living or to praise the dead. Time is a tunnel through which the soul must go To find the more than we already know. Life seems a pendulum on which we swing The heart a world containing everything, It breaks and heals and wider grows through love And the many peaks and pitfalls through which we move. I have come to a place of silence utterly new Where a witness-self observes all in its vie

The Spirit's Upward Course.htm The Spirit's Upward Course One move forward, one move back, My train of inability Always running on a track Leading me to a destiny Through alleyways and tired yards And places I do not want to go. I play solitaire with worn-out cards And the engine of habit does not slow. Her name I speak in secrecy But the car seems empty now The engineer is leading me In ways I cannot feel or know. If only I could travel light, Have done with sorrow and remorse, Throw out the baggage of the night And right the spirit's upward course.

Surrendered At Thy Feet 6/18/08 Whatever life may offer me Joyous or bittersweet In all things I bow to Thee, Surrendered at thy feet.