Prayer to the Lord of Our Being - April 8, 1972 Flow harmonious through this wanting frame Breath, Force, Power, Lord inspire, By God driven, deep this soul's desire, Deep though too this senseless love of dusk. Firm this faltering will, all dark descry. I hear from some rare avenue beyond Footfalls of unearthly astonishment Breaking out the splendour of the sky. Stay my hour, Lord, that I may see Awakened children break destruction's grasp, Bridge the lacuna dividing us from thee And bear the body of the morning

To Her Alone I Pray May 18, 2014 Beyond the faint horizon of the mind The soul in secrecylayundisclosed. I could but see it in the light outlined, A form that seemed so calm, composed, As if the world was held within its vast Embrace and nothing could touch and nothing mar The sanctity it held from ages past In lives it lived in some forgotten star. Is it me, I wondered, or some fragment dream Or figment of the busy mind's caprice, And yet I knew it me, the world did seem So small and one life but a puzzling piece On a canvas of the future world's desire. And then I woke and felt the inner fire Alive and burning all

Mockingbird Morning August 4, 2014 A mockingbird morning and all the world a song. I wake to the cardinal and his joyous call, The hawk in a pinpoint sky calls loud and long, Such beauty here, how can we hold it all? The iris bear their crowns of victory As I walk among the roses deep in prayer And breathe the fragrance of the peony And taste the sweetness of the morning air. A day will come when beauty on earth shall reign And we who wander here still robed in night Shall wake to Truth and know ourselves again And walk most consciously the paths of light.

Hold God Tight May 16, 2014 Now the flowers comfort me In the piercing sorrow of my soul, A song-bird trills its melody As summer leans into the fall. Winter here is beautiful With bracing cold and drift of snow. The Lenten roses break the lull Of sleeping rose while fierce winds blow. I must wake to another Spring Of beauty more than eye can see But progress is another thing Is there still capacity For inner change towards the Light, To cling to truth and hold God tight.

A Simple Prayer Aug. 31, 2014   The little that I give of me Shall by thy grace increase For I am meant for none but thee My labor shall not cease. An instrument awakened now To all that must be done That truth may reign and night shall know The radiance of thy sun. The ages called to thee, "Come down", The earth in sorrow weeps, Evil's tenacity has grown And man unconscious, sleeps Unknowing as the golden day Grows brighter in the east; Our hearts shall bear the brilliant ray That kills the raging beast. When all thy work on earth is done Let me serve thee still, To live in thee, fo

Finding the Soul Sept. 14, 2014   And in that silence I in silence dwelt. Time fled, the days, the weeks, the lonely hours, Immersed in peace by the Samadhi knelt Surrounded by the fragrance of the flowers, The incense spires rising in the night, Pounding of the sea against the shore, The raucous crows ready to take flight; All this I too experienced, but more, An offering of self as one alone Meets a vastness, hears a voice within, A being from far births yet faintly known, Saying, "Discard the vain idea of sin, For deep in you is hid the holy grail. Finding the soul life's mission cannot fail."

The Great and Luminous Door June 13, 2014 Pain lingers long, forever some would say, Secures a special place within the heart Opens on night and closes out the day. However hard we try it will not depart. Are we not more than sentiment and sighs Of longing for a time when calm shall rule, I cannot believe that something in us dies With each unconscious act as Nature's tool. I believe - within my soul - I know, That only love can erase the sorrowed past. The more we are able to love the more we grow Becoming love, unlimited and vast In which all errors are erased, all sins Transformed, a modicum of peace attaine

Another Spring September 22, 2014   To see the newness springing from the earth Is joy beyond all reckoning As I return to welcome by the flowers And greet the advent of another Spring. Can gratitude accumulate in force As wonderment increases walking by Each new blossom brilliantly unveiled, A feast of Nature to the awakened eye. When first I saw the hyacinths, a child Enraptured by fragrance I seemed to hear them say "We are the pride of beauty, admire us, Kneel young soul, and join us as we pray And listen to the symphony of light, For in the seed there waits the yearning bloom, The bud prepares the fi

Open the Heart June 5, 2014 I witness the turbulence of designing mind, Its vain desires, its striving to achieve. What brought us here, what secret still to find Hidden through the years in which we weave Our empty dreams beneath an indifferent sky. How do we reach in our allotted years The destined place, the seat of sanctity From which is banished all our human fears, Where frustrate hopes and human longings turn Towards prayer and aspiration of the soul, The easy path of satisfactions spurn When looms before us the eternal goal. The days are dwindling down, can we awake To beauty on this hallowed field of life, Open

In the Silence of My Soul May 6, 2014 Because I cannot see you now should doubt Allow the flame you lit it me burn out, Obliterate the Presence I could feel In moments when the Grace would softly steal Upon me in the vastness of the night. Must I await the advent of a light That burns away the veils I chose to wear Refusing to surrender to your care. The road is long but why else are we here For with each day I feel you drawing near And in the silence of my soul I wait For you alone on whom I meditate.