Province of the Realized Few He sits awake in our profoundest sleep, Guardian and guide of all our dreams, Spurs lethargic self to dare and leap Across the gulfs of ignorance where gleams The eternal matrix and transforming power, A love divine, immutable, unstained Whose formidable force can seize the hour And all that lies within us unattained. We shall blossom as the flower to the sun, Transcendent man shall overleap mankind A warrior of the incarnate One, And we who in a half-light seek shall find The harmony that now eludes our grasp, The light that beckons just beyond our view, The love we feel in all ye

Among the Nameless Stars 11/30/07 And when I am no more remember me Who loved you for the singing soul in you, The days when Heaven seemed descended here, A timeless moment in eternal time. The body weakened faces soon its end Though the happiness we knew seems now a dream, Another life lived once within this frame A doppelgŠnger spirit unaware, Blind to fate and human destiny. Perhaps the gods more rightly understand That from the dark we enter into light And then into the dark recede once more To rest perhaps, to gather up the threads Of joys and sorrows like the yin and yang, A chiaroscuro of delight and grief Knowing that our

If You Should Come Again 8/27/07 Did you leave something of your presence here? Perhaps a hint of perfume in a flower Or in these rooms once beautiful, now drear, A last imprint of love in that fateful hour Of pain when one could hear the walls cry out For you, departing as the Shade drew near. In all I touch or see or think about There is such loveliness in your atmosphere But sorrow gathers like a fog and closes Over my soul and penetrates my heart And I am left alone among the roses Bereft of my beloved counterpart. I have locked my dreams in a casket of gold Away from the eager prying eyes of men In a silken cloth fold on care

Consecrated Offering The hundred thousand errors of my past Like village hounds snapping at my feet Follow me, I still cannot get free Of habits old and untoward demands Nor find within the sole conquering will. I lost myself in work to no avail As thoughts from other worlds assail my mind And like a rudderless ship in heaving seas Am tossed about and sink to rise again Having had full complement of pain And most unworthy suffered love's return But friendship's loss, inevitable loss, While I continue in my daily rounds

Heavier Grows the Heart I am in hiding in my sorrow's shell The long days are nothing more than night If pain is measure of my being's hell When all is claimed by death's invincible might, Or so it seems when beauty's face is lost And joy transformed into illusion's mask In this saga of the body's holocaust. Of the gods there is nothing I can ask. We were not meant to grieve but grief there is When vibrant life too soon becomes death's prey Our hope to change the world reduced to this And heavier grows the heart with each new day.

Divine Embodiment What if we fail a thousand times? Failure is the building block Of every future victory. When we stumble, when we fall God gives us opportunity To face inherent weaknesses And rise above all littleness Then in this earthly form prepare A channel for the great descent And a divine embodiment.

Find the Place 3/28,2007 There is an emptiness that comes To one who has lived long in love Spirit-joined whose life revealed A gentler side, now stricken down, An emptiness of days and years And sleepless nights and nights of tears, A blankness filling all the world. And yet this must not be, we breathe And life continues as we seek The answer we already know That none who once have loved and lived Can die and only dust remain. There is a place where all unite Who came alone from star-strung space To grow upon the greening earth And marry beauty to the soul Find the place - and grieve no more.

Unassailable Belief Count me not yet among the dying and dead For I have lost all fear of life and dread Not the vacant Void or featureless calm, Have felt a mighty Presence whose deep balm Compassionate and wise envelopes me Protecting all that is and is to be, Though I in grief have lately lost my aim And life goes on, each dawn much the same Yet shall I grow transcending every grief And hold to my unassailable belief That Death who lingers in the depths of me Is only God guiding eternally This soul and every soul for His delight; Our future is not anything but bright.

A New Life Begin I have lost my fascination with the stars They yield no light upon the taxing way And what romance is left within the moon When trampled by man's heavy feet of clay? But breaks another wild and sun-touched morn With sparkling dew and creatures winged and free And with the veils of all illusions torn I am filled with hope and newfound energy. The flowers in their wise simplicity Follow their progenitor, the sun And we who seek a greater wisdom's truth Must find within our dwelling place, the One We carry in ourselves, the fount of hope The light that burns so brilliantly within Guiding us upon the rocky slope

The One For Whom Her Soul To have walked upon the avenues of light In vast cathedrals paced among the trees At one with all the growing things of earth, Known boundless energies of daring youth And thrilled to the awakening strains of love, There have I lived, there moved in peace awhile The heart grown wider by the Master's touch. Though grief has come with loss of one so fair Who through the calm and chaos of the years Ever in compassion stayed our cou