Long Overawed Poems

They were gambling in front of the house.
Manservants and pages bustled about
Serving Suitors who just curse and carouse.
Few mix wine with water. I heard one shout,
"Clean down the tables with wet sponges! Rouse
Yourselves! And when...

Read More

Though I'm ashamed to say it now, I never took conservation seriously,
Just living life as if nothing else mattered, full of wonted complacency.

I would hear intense talk of the climate, recycling and global warming,
But I...

Read More

I’ve unfurled the Southern Cross tonight and put it
On the wall, and as I gazed the longest while.. I thought I heard the
dingo’s call?  It couldn’t be as all
Round me were the sounds of...

Read More

both low and high, rich and poor alike: My mouth will speak words of wisdom; the meditation of my heart will give you understanding. I will turn my ear to a proverb; with the harp...

Read More

Chronicles of a long Distant Race

I arrive amidst all the chatter and confusion
that seems to haunt all pre-race activities,
friend greeting friend,
club member greets fellow member,
New shoes, shorts and shirts being shown emulously.
Profusions of Vaseline used...

Read More

19.7
“Where is life and death?
Where is the world and worldly relations? 
Where is distraction and stillness?
I abide in the glory of Self”

Verse revisited on 06-July-2022

As a shape shifting soul
Breath and heartbeat stilled
To feel contrast, we...

Read More

I have seen them stand outside my door,
pleading mother to help stage their show,
on our verandah with stony floor,
tattered clothes, hungry child, wife on tow!
 
dusty robes speak of miles he walked,
two woven baskets on...

Read More

The third eye of Shiva!
Demons reduced to ash!
Ego seeking this power-enigma 
That ascension it may encash

Beginning thus with a nebulous concept
Identity craving for Godlike enablement 
Adopts yogic techniques suspect
To awaken kundalini from containment 

Lucky then...

Read More

“No matter how low we fall, God holds our hand ~
All’s enabled, if this truth we understand”
                  ...

Read More

Misplaced peg squirms to fit locales unfamiliar
       Illformed tumbleweed pauses then departs
       Traits assessed on somewhere else's charts
     ...

Read More

Wealth 

"20 People who have wealth but lack understanding are like the beasts that perish. ” Psa 49:20 NIV

A man who possesses riches
Without accompanying understanding
Will perish like the beasts of the earth;
A short life that’s...

Read More

That slow and spectacular gait of a bride
Brimming as she is with nuptial pride
With grace and beauty each regal stride
as invitees whisper, 'here comes the bride'.

She for her big day so perfectly embellished
Her love-match said...

Read More

To feel contrast in space and time
We ride life’s Ferris wheel
Feelings gross, mundane and sublime
With each in turn, we deal

Early years, driven by instinct
Mission’s to seize and size
Selfish heart, not yet by love inked
Self-blocks offered...

Read More

The wind whipped through the vale that winter night;
he hunkered down, his watch to keep.
A solitary star gave off its light;
oblivious, the sheep
lulled by their shepherd's song, lay slumbering in sleep.

They suddenly were no longer...

Read More

Tho' woe begone I am found too deep,
         my silent suffering has a credulous will
         unwilling acceptance, it strives...

Read More

18.32
“Hearing ultimate Truth,
the dull-witted man is bewildered
The wise man hearing Truth 
retreats within and appears dull-witted”


What a pleasant surprise!
Let us assume we are wise!

(23-August-2019)

~~~

Verse 18.32 revisited on 05-February-2022

When divine wisdom in heart is sown
The hermit’s...

Read More

Soul’s desire has birthed this form,
to feel a benign bliss storm.
Breaking free from body shell,
we wake up knowing all’s well.

This game is not so easy,
unless nonchalance breezy
marks our each thought, word and deed,
throb of love,...

Read More

Flimsy fig leaf camouflage,
subterfuge reveals montage,
mind games at play everyday,
as conscience to rest we lay.

Enacting oneupmanship,
demons of mind we worship,
anchored in hypnotic trance,
enticed by dark desire’s dance.

Engaging in acts feral,
we find our soul’s in peril,
yet...

Read More

Audience is abuzz.
Boldly,
Conductor emerges – black tux.
Draw
Ethereal patterns with baton– marv.
Flutes, trumpets, cellos, drums dance for me, for you.
Gentle, light…
Heavy and dark…the music evolves
Into something more meaningful, deeper.
Joyous – a tranq
Killing, temporarily, stresses – they...

Read More

19.5
“Where is sleeping, dreaming, waking, 
or even the fourth state?
Where is fear?
I abide in the glory of Self”

Verse revisited on 09-June-2022

Timeless continuum of here, now, this
Peace rippleless, humming with bliss
Holds steady internalised attention
As ever present...

Read More

What fascinates me
is we fail to see
truth before our eyes
and bliss beats that rise.

Objects we behold,
around our mind rolled,
are present in space,
manifest by grace.

Before we exhale,
to again inhale,
there’s a pregnant pause,
of this dream world’s cause.

What...

Read More

Earnest is our deposition,
without any imposition.

Liken it to a shout in the vast void,
by vaporised self, who's ego's destroyed,
urging souls to shed their fear of freedom,
affirming within us, is God's kingdom.

Love never employs use of...

Read More

There it was gazing up – radiant – 
radiating kaleidoscope silver green;
sharp with life, ready and expectant.

Spreading its claim, pressing out the grass,
was a thistle born from last year's seed unseen.
From where had it blown...

Read More

Songs and lullabies of yours still echo in my ears
Hands that caressed me, the soft touch still lingers
And your cheer ups helped me to move on, dear
Never ever you let me remain sad and in...

Read More

One night from deep sleep I awoke,
stirred by a light that gently spoke,
oozing love, seeking my consent,
for my soul’s heavenward ascent.

No sooner I nodded my head,
into the vast void, I was led
sans form, for I...

Read More