O World Unite Us How swiftly the willows burst forth their green cascades As if they overslept in winter's arms And hurriedly dress to greet the bride of Spring. And those whom death has severed in their bloom, Can we reborn to beauty know rebirth In vernal splendour with the beloved lost? Remember us earth in the grasses we have sown. In summer's intense caress can we renew The flame of life that burned so brightly then? O sacred soil remember us in the trees. As Autumn captivates the hearts of men And forests glow like fires in the dawn Can we who knew each subtle shade of love, The coloured wings of passion and desire, The soft-white calm

False Avatar He spoke of Christ the Lord, and all the saints, Revered the Buddha, a lover of Krishna too, Dismissed as meaningless our weak complaints United Muslim, Hindu, Christian, Jew. He had the gift of tongues and eyes so bright They burned like giant searchlights on the sea. We gathered weekly sharing his delight, The lonely seeker and the devotee. He wove a net of wonder round our souls Exhorting us to seek the God within, Reminded us of oft forgotten goals, He seemed divinely pure and without sin. The young who seek are easily relieved Of commonsense; desirous to embrace Each silver word of gospel are deceived By a silk

Divine Love Governing the World* 11/14/03 The ashes of thy body now I place Most tenderly my love beneath the Tree. Protecting branches shelter thee with grace, And love shall guide thy soul eternally. I cannot say with final certainty That I have moved beyond the plane of grief Or see thy death the soul's necessity That shakes my spirit like a falling leaf, I only know our lives are in His care. Humbled by the blessings of this day I feel a love that permeates the air, The honour and the privilege of the way. One called us to the adventure of consciousness Upon this earth, a scheme divinely drawn By the prescient arch

For Mary Helen Eternal Marriage I wear the nuptial band, the soul's embrace Made physical in dense matter's world, But in this denseness is there still not space For ether, fire, God, in atom's mould? The body's sensuous attraction palls Before the light in the beloved's eyes And something in the inner nature calls Remembrance of those lost eternities. A recognition from the vasts of space, A conscious union of souls no longer blind, In unknown bodies knowledge of a place Beyond the settled precincts of the mind. In a blue-white flame was forged the ring of love No force can separate nor death remove.

For She Awaits I will draw the force around me like a flame Protecting and enveloping the soul And call Her till the walls of ego fall Tumbling into seas of nothingness That I may stand unclothed in that bright dawn The torn and tattered vestments of past lives Discard for One within me clothed in light And all the world turn suddenly divine. Am I not he who has followed in her train The Mother star who lights the pilgrim's way, Through many a birth and death her face revealed Or glimpsed ascending peak to higher peak. Are we not comrades, kin through countless lives Descending through unnumbered realms to birth On this conscious

We Who Wander Here 11/18/03 To walk in the shade of great protecting trees Whose branches crowned with blessings cover me, Alive to signal moments such as these I turn within that inner eye to see The reality behind this world of forms Whose beauty breaks upon the subtle sight As blossom meadows in eternal light Beyond all dreams and measurable norms. The grasses of the earth in greenness glow And I am hesitant these joys to leave, Alone by the spirit's growth one day shall know That earth and worlds beyond are but one weave, A tapestry of some near

Garden of Unearthly Bliss I stood at the Garden of Unearthly Bliss Hoping a magic entryway to find But the gates were locked and the Lover's kiss Denied to the impure in heart and mind. I saw the mystic blossoms opening, A fragrance caught from some forgotten past But could not hold in my dark sorrowing When Death claimed the beloved at the last. I watch the wonder of the Spring unfold And know that peace and calm might still descend If I could leap beyond my grief and hold The vision of the garden I must tend, The flowers' simple offering be mine All poverty of spirit be undone. O Mother let my soul be wed to Thine,

Joy^s Child.htm For Aaron Joy's Child He comes as a wave cresting in delight, His laughter like an infant God's at play Rings the stars and sets the world aright, This sudden breeze that cools the fiery day. His tiny hands enfold themselves in mine And happiness descends into my veins, His kiss a poetry at once divine All-love his gift in sweetest godlike strains. With his embrace all false anxiety And clinging sorrow far from me is cast, His griefless eyes speak of an ecstasy When soul aware of present and of past Takes up again the reins of consciousness Eager to explore the far unfound. Then too, there is a streak of wilfulness And mi

I Am The Mother^s Child.htm I Am The Mother's Child Dawn on Tiger Hill, the blood-red stain Of sunrise on the slopes of Everest, Ten thousand feet below the Indus plain, Ten thousand feet above the icy crest. We have known mountains formidable as love, A deeply spiritual unity, Above the highest peaks we soared and dove Into the canyon depths of tragedy. I have walked alone among the redwood trees And known the joy and sweetness earth can give, Communed in silence with divinities Who far from man's destruction calmly live. In forests where the giant hemlocks grew I learned the secrets of an ancient lore, In the chanting on the boughs my spirit knew

To Mary Helen Temples to the Sky I cannot build thee temples to the sky Or palaces of gold and amethyst, In timeless realms a greater destiny Anoints thy flame-white soul by godhead kissed And all my hanging sorrows are as nought To that which in thee touched my growing days. I witnessed thy heroic battle fought Against the foe who on the body preys And honour thee in flowers we have grown, In gardens of exceeding loveliness And know thee kindred spirit as my own, No day shall pass without thy smile's impress. Reveal immortal one the way of light, My grief to joy transform, to dawn my night.