Short Lila Poems

This form was made from star stuff
To radiate endless love.
My soul is whole, but part of
land, sea, and sky above.
I am whole, but only half of
Creations infinite expanse.
I think that you are Lila
The universe’s perfect dance....

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Nachtigall / Nightingale / Ruiseñor  

Dort im Flieder
Die Nachtigall singt ihr Lied
Am stillen Morgen 


There in the lilac
The nightingale sings her song
In a calm morning 


Allí en la lila
El ruiseñor canta su canción
En mañana tranquila...

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I
If u loved, you may write sound poetry;
If u loved & lost, words add a higher degree
Of lonely beauty and crowded clarity
As was true of Dickinson, POET, Lady, my EMILY

II
Life and breath can yield great writing
Love and loss point to truth, reuniting
Where all are level, Scripture doth remind
Before this act, stage, LILA in Hindu mind...

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1. Avoid Manichaean Concepts and Boxing - making categories - of Human Beings 

2. Watch your thoughts intensely, but kindly: judge no one, not even yourself. Enjoy the drama. We are actors anyways (Ask Shakespeare, or Hindu thinkers who flesh out the concept of Maya and "Krishna Lila.") Do STOP obvious evils.

3. ACCEPT: you are no better - or worse - than other human beings....

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If God did not play Hide & Seek with us
We would see GOD, all of God, nothing else!
So He hides, then gets more elaborate at hiding;
To humans He seems reluctant to be found - as it were -
Those who seek in earnest, will find Him
Because the Game has to end ... and begin again
This is what common people, unschooled, know
Jesus revealed as much about Abba Father; played it best...

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"Perhaps the most common
mental illness," the professor was saying
"is the insistence that one has a special
thing to do and that one has
a unique duty to do it."
The professor was close to a
giggle when he said it and the class
was in oppen-mouthed sympathy.
And the poetry vanished from the world
in that moment when the
delicate instrument
Lila was carrying
dropped from her hands....

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"Perhaps the most common
mental illness," the professor was saying
"is the insistence that one has a special
thing to do and that one has
a unique duty to do it."
The professor was close to a
giggle when he said it and the class
was in oppen-mouthed sympathy.
And the poetry vanished from the world
in that moment when the
delicate instrument
Lila was carrying
dropped from her hands....

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