High Sierras In the high plateaus down to the s… The mighty Colorado rushing wild Surged swiftly on towards its anci… Caught in its currents like a glee…

Disciples Among Seers– For Mary… He who is awake within our sleep Knocks gently at the prison-doors… Reminding of the promise He would… To free the soul, the shroud of fa…

Still Night Above the Sleeping L… Still night above the sleeping lak… The sounds of life are silenced as… Soft upon the welcoming grass I l… Watching the indifferent stars dri…

Truth or the Abyss Remembering the terrorist attacks… the Mother’s message of 1967* Our reasoned knowledge resolute an… The inner spirit’s guidance would…

Whatever value these poems may contain they are indicative only of momentary openings to the splendour of Sri Aurobindo’s poetic force descending in me and illumining and quieting my mi...

God in Human Dress The tender brushing of the lips, No breath to intervene The pulse-beat of infinity Marks an eternal scene.

I Must Learn I must learn to live again Discarding sorrow’s past And sing the spirit’s one refrain Of blessings I’ve amassed.

Oak Tree Dying and One Who Left The bare oak stands a sentinel of… Its leafless limbs afford no shade… Stark and black, devoid of greenin… Where no bird lives or builds its…

Country of My Spirit’s Birth Winter wraps his arms around my wo… As desultory leaves drift slowly d… To cover beds in which the dreams… Shall rise again to greet the year…

No Shade of Night Still am I moved by inward things And have no need of fancy’s dreams Lost in mental wanderings, For this world’s imperfection seem…

Undying Love All that I was before and yet sha… I give to you, beloved of the star… How many seas remind me of your ey… How many islands refuge in your ar…

In the Sea of Becoming Knock at the gates of beauty And at the doors of delight No grief can enter there, No sorrow mar our sight.

The City Flowers I stood upon a tower of the world And watched the movements of a pac… The stream of lights on endless av… Awake before the rising of the daw…

No Waylost Years Singing through the solar stillnes… I heard the eternal sound It was a stellar melody Achingly profound.