Now You Are Gone Oh my beloved what further can I say I have not uttered time and time again Who face the perils of uncertain day Now you are gone and I alone remain? I would not have it thus but words are weak And powerless without the force to change, And peace eludes, the Presence that I seek Though once so near seems now so far and strange, Elusive as the ageless mystery No mind can comprehend or thought ensnare, Uncertain as the earth is to the sea And all the foreign life that blossoms there. Our love is blazoned on my yearning heart, Each dawn recalls the beauty of your eyes, My cherished soul's undying counterpart; W

A New Year Dawns A new year dawns, bringer of promises And to the thirsting earth a grace-filled rain. Happy sounds of "Bonne Annee" are heard Renewing hope that peace we might attain. Absorbed in meditative poise they sit Disciples in a still environment, A courtyard sanctified and richly blessed That holds the mystery of God's descent. Morning comes pregnant with new birth And prayers that our tormented earth might find An end to ignorance and war and greed And wake to purpose of a nobler kind. I sit in contemplation's simple room Emptied for a moment of the past, Seeking a silence to penetrate the cells, A calm uns

The Near Approach to God The winter season hangs upon my soul Its memory of death, the loved one lost, Though spring returns reminded of the goal The heart in waves of sorrow still is tossed. Once poetry rained down like molten tears From unknown founts upon a grief-torn face And all the world lay foundering in fears, To beauty lost in animal disgrace. Returning to the Source I came again To that still place, the habitat of love And for a time, released from human pain Received assurance from the gods above That life no

In The Chamber In an eternal house in human time We sit in silence and a timeless space Surrounds us as we watch the spirit climb Above our sorrows and our sins outpace. A force of the profound immeasurable Describes within the stillness of the soul The ways of light, the path accessible To the fearless who relinquish mind's control. One has lit the sun that beacons clear Upon the crystal in its golden base A plenitude of peace has channelled here, Resident in every human face. A calm is felt as tangible as touch, The quickened heart with a Presence fills, In this dwelling-place of God the ego's clutch Is gone with gri

Immortal Joy It is the time of green springing moss, The first primeval heaving of the earth, From winter's death and irreversible loss A season comes of new and fruitful birth. It is not the spring beloved of youthful times Or the gentle blossoming of warmer isles But a panoply of Nature as she climbs From her sodden monsoon bed and brightly smiles In sunburst and the brilliant songs of trees Richly adorned, ablaze in waves of heat, Flying their coloured scarves upon the breeze And all the worshipping earth at Her feet. I hear the sound of silent augur wings And feel immortal joy in mortal things.

In Her Is My Eternity As a youth life seemed to me An underlying unity. I walked through wastelands of despair And saw my spirit dwelling there. No wealth had I yet wealth was mine, In every tree a force divine Flowed in beauty as a stream, Reality as true as dream. The flowers in my childhood hand Treasures soul could understand Whom Nature fostered as a friend, And in the days at childhood's end Brought new vistas to explore, Opening the azure door To worlds beyond and worlds within Realms of beauty, haunts of sin. The sense-life's wild and frenzied dance In vital-nature's ambiance Attracted as a moth to flame

Nectar of Supreme Delight Perhaps tomorrow I shall know The things I cannot see today, The future's road on which I go, The hidden music and the play. Peace folds its sweetness round my head Descends enveloping my heart Yet to the past I am not dead And from this earth I must not depart Just yet for there is much to do. The gardens wait in subtle space And music will my soul renew To lift me to that higher place Where all is known I've striven for, That I might sing the worlds to sleep, In flowered dreams my spirit soar To find eternal joy nor weep For beauty lost where beauty reigns In Durga's arms, in

The Measure of Eternity Flowers falling to the earth like snow Rays that shoot between the topmost leaves, In silence now a deeper truth to know, Grateful for these transient reprieves I walk her lanes of loveliness and greet The fruited boughs that lean in offering, The cushioned grasses cool beneath my feet And all the aching splendour of the spring. I feel a oneness with the silent sky, I am a comrade of the earth, the seas, And yet I cannot comprehend just why I am house divided by degrees Where unknown voices call from unknown rooms, The sentry falls asleep at the sacred gate, And all the past before the future

Divine in Human Clay The years turn back to see thy smile, Remembering thy soundless feet That softly touched earth's breast awhile Impressing love on our deceit. What do we know who have not found The guidance, the unerring light Established on the spirit's ground Cognizant of wrong and right. The day is but a dream of thee And night the counterpoint of day, My heart retains the memory Of One divine in human clay.

To the Light July 7, 2004 Once the world within me grew and bloomed And, owning nothing, all in my account Flourished and increased the seasons' wealth. Music in me sang the stars to sleep And dawn the brighter grew as joy fulfilled An ancient longing in my youthful heart. Each day a newness brought, a larger quest; I sought through sense to feed the passion's flame That flowers briefly through the fleeing hours, Forever etch on the tablets of time, my name. I hoarded transient memories of love, Heard whispers of a higher destiny Than fate's