Timeless is the Love That Through Us Flows In your embrace eternal sorrow fled Beneath the waves; revivifying peace Enveloped me and drifting through the hours Beauty came, arms filled with memories Of gardens in the sunlight of your smile; A diamond love looked at me from eyes That through life's million veils with ease could pierce To an inmost view unmasking each disguise. O child with your touch infinite blessings came As balm to heal the wounds within my heart. Your laughter echoes through the vaults of time. Though from this sacred place I soon depart I hold you close, your presence lives in me And timeless is the

The Miracle of You Tell me beloved whence thy beauty springs It is not born from earthly dust I fear For in your voice celestial music brings Diviner sounds than those on earth we hear. Your wind-blown tresses billow in the breeze As gentle waves are lifted by the wind And in your cheeks a rose eternally Blossoms and your eyes with shadow limned Engulf my heart and almost now it seems The beneficiary of second sight Am I, or from another world of dreams I glimpse thee golden in a golden light. O sweetest soul you filled my world with bliss And in your silence I in silence grew. You left me with a last eternal kiss To venera

To Be With You Again I will not forget And even at my death Will speak your name aloud And with my final breath Sing forth a note so clear The heavenly hosts shall hear, The sky without a cloud Reveals your image near. Remembering when we met Even at my death, The scented flowers of earth Not sweeter than your breath. I have counted out the days And marked the years that pass As lilies sang your praise, Lay long upon the grass And dreamt of a world to be Recalled the lives I've led Throughout eternity, Then ate with tears my bread. Knowing grief must go, Sorrow and biting pain, I shall wil

Vision of the Avatars Let me now my story tell Of comets shooting from the sky And auguries that I know well Of souls that grow and never die, Of all the beauty man has known Triumphant in a humble flower, How goodness multiplies where sown, The sight of seraphim who tower Above the paltriness of days, Above our waking and our sleep, The guardians of ancient ways Who catch the silver tears we weep Protecting us from our self doubt, Guiding when we know it not Chasing entrenched evil out, The hostile forces and their lot Who keep men ignorant of God, Chained to the daily, senseless round Some who run while others plod Pinn

Matrimandir Gardens Christmas Eve 2006 Such peace pervades this charged atmosphere, As if the tread of silent angel feet Now quicken the earth and wake the soul of man To see the Light most radiant in the East. A gracious harmony, a pure delight Descends, and from the fragrant fields of God A music now we hear unheard before Or only in the unattainable spheres. Hearts are charged with love and bodies glow A force transcendent bonds these varied lives; In the gardens of the Mandir we are one. Give all you have or ever shall be to Her Who transmutes sorrow to eternal joy, This world of pain to ecstasy divine.

That Which is Divine in Us There is a window on the secret soul, It is not through the eyes, for they deceive, The passage through the heart is most direct Once found one would not ever wish to leave. Our long and chequered history is there, Of many births and deaths and births again, The ascending spiral glows for all to see Who take the sunlit path absolved from pain. And though we are content within our shell And trifling joys are manna to the mind, At times the opening comes, we look within To glimpse a being of a higher kind But then the worldly life pulls us away And only a faint remembrance lingers still.

Men and Angels Joyously Shall Dwell As we labour in that future paradise The muses of subtle spheres sing to me Chants that once in former lives I knew When the world was young and human destiny A dream of God known only to a few. We think perhaps a progress has been won, In the busy traffic of our human lives But nothing is achieved till all is done And God awakened in our mortal dress. The soul secure our destiny he guides To a realization locked within the cells, A sanctum of light where Truth alone abides And beauty's touch beyond eternity. No longer shall be dying and no death Delay the tread divine upo

The Noons of Splendour The twenty-fourth of August and no sun, Clouds veil her face, the skies of pewter made, Expectantly the earth in stillness lies And birds wait silently in the deep shade. A light not wholly real pervades the land It seems the trick of an illusionist Or a secret energy content to work In the dense and palpable morning mist, A settled atmosphere of deep reserve. The Spring of happy days is now behind And Summer's riot captivates the sense. Earth's final flowering is to my mind The preface of regenerative sleep. Autumn's colours lead to Winter's rule And all our Springs are born from that white peace,

The Promised Descent of Heaven Cold is the heart where a fire burns Lit by the fuel of centuries of hate, Now unleashed upon the innocent And all the world uncertain of its fate. We are baffled by the enormity of war Yet some take passing pleasure in the sight Of rubble in our televised accounts, Vicariously some perverse delight. Can the dogs of war unleashed be brought to bay, The malevolent in man replace by good, His ego-need renounce for higher truth, His fighting instincts turn towards brotherhood? Earth shall not fail but man may disappear Or live subservient to a higher will, For the rider on the stallion

Spirit of Beauty I met a spirit of beauty in Auroville Where peacocks cried in pleasure from flower-hung trees, And a memory hold of a silver smile from still Clear depths of soul that blossomed in delight. I met a spirit of tenderness sublime, A heart of strength that held its happy beats Mid the coming and going of the impetuous feet of time And in whose hands the lifeless clay breathed life. From