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

In The Ashram Courtyard - 1 July 6, 1999 Bengali men with joy-filled eyes attending Flowers for the garden of the shrine, The hallowed courtyard, still and fragrance filled, A new age born and golden light descending. At the Samadhi, a silent aspirant, United in devotion mid flesh of all hues; Words softly spoken, smiles that reached behind The heart to greet the unseen inhabitant. Such names resound through all my memoried days Parichand, Nolinida, Nirod. The great ones saw Her move as a flame of white light,

The Mother's Look.htm The Mother's Look 9/16/99 As a rapier pierces the human heart Cutting a path flesh and bone, So your eyes have pierced me through And now I seek for you alone. Diamond orbs that blazing spun A brilliance from eternity, Rocked my frame as they clove my breast, The awakening touch of deity.

The Inner Life October 1999 Behind the frontal man there stands Invisible to the naked eye A being robed in constant light Image of our destiny. As winds our path through life and life Lord of our bodies' temporal home He sits in golden solitude In his room of golden light, alone.

Silent By His Grave with a Red Carnation June 23, 1999 No more the eager feats of youth and toil And the hard labour of thy dreams fulfilled, The earth thou cherished takes thy body, stilled, Embraces thee father, returned to her sacred soil

On The Verge September 1999 Bright are those heavens beyond the mind's purview That beckon through the torrent and the tide, Yet brighter still the light now sifting through Earth's air on which the superhumans ride.