Poem of the Day » sri-chinmoy http://www.shortpoems.org/poem Tue, 22 Sep 2009 12:19:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.2 The New Year http://www.shortpoems.org/poem/the-new-year/ http://www.shortpoems.org/poem/the-new-year/#comments Thu, 01 Jan 2009 12:21:56 +0000 tejvan http://www.shortpoems.org/poem/?p=319 The new year has commenced
Its momentous journey today.
From today on, during the entire year,
I shall not offer my volcano-ambition
To the world.
I shall offer the world
Only my moonlit heart’s flaming aspiration.

- Sri Chinmoy

]]> http://www.shortpoems.org/poem/the-new-year/feed/ 8 Between Nothingness and Eternity http://www.shortpoems.org/poem/between-nothingness-and-eternity/ http://www.shortpoems.org/poem/between-nothingness-and-eternity/#comments Thu, 06 Nov 2008 21:39:23 +0000 tejvan http://www.shortpoems.org/poem/?p=263 Barren of events,
Rich in pretensions
My earthly life.

Obscurity
My real name.

Wholly unto myself
I exist.

I wrap no soul
In my embrace.

No mentor worthy
Of my calibre
Have I.

I am all alone
Between failure
And frustration.

I am the red thread
Between
Nothingness
And Eternity.

By Sri Chinmoy

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Beauty unparalleled in the garden of Eden.
Day and night may Thy image abide
In the very depth of my heart.
Without You my eyes have no vision,
Everything is an illusion, everything is barren.
All around me, within and without,
The melody of tenebrous pangs I hear.
My world is filled with excruciating pangs.
O Lord, O my beautiful Lord,
O my Lord of beauty, in this lifetime
Even for a fleeting second,
May I be blessed with the boon
To see Thy Face.

by Sri Chinmoy

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In joyful sweep I loose forth and draw back all.
A birthless deathless Spirit that moves and is still
Ever abides within to hear my call.

I who create on earth my joys and doles
To fulfil my matchless quest in all my play,
I veil my face of truth with golden hues
And see the serpent night and python day.

A Consciousness Bliss I feel in each breath;
I am the self amorous child of the Sun.
At will I break and build my symbol sheath
And freely enjoy the world’s unshadowed fun.

by Sri Chinmoy

]]> http://www.shortpoems.org/poem/apocalypse/feed/ 0 My Last Word http://www.shortpoems.org/poem/my-last-word/ http://www.shortpoems.org/poem/my-last-word/#comments Fri, 11 Jul 2008 20:09:44 +0000 tejvan http://www.shortpoems.org/poem/?p=169 My last word You will hear.
With this hope
I still exist on earth.
Let me dance in Your Heart always,
In the nights of sorrow and in the days of joy.
I feel that the torture of happiness is more painful
Than the torture of sorrow,
For when I am in joy I forget You;
I hurt your heart.

- Sri Chinmoy

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Thou art my Lord, my golden dream,
Thou art my life in death.
O bless me with Thy Hope Supreme,
Lord of the Eternal Breath!

Agelong the vision of Thy Sun
For darkness have I sought.
I know the evils I should shun
And quickly bring to nought.

The earth is deaf and blind, my Lord;
Its true goal it denies.
It hears no voice, no heavenly word
From those who seek the skies.

O yet I feel Thy kingly Grace
With my feeble mortality.
I shall win at last the Noonward Race,
Plunge in the Nectar-Sea.

-

Sri Chinmoy

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He invents war from without.
He discovers peace from within.
War man throws. Peace man sows.
The smile of war is the flood of human blood.
The smile of peace is the love, below, above.

Peace is the whole truth that wishes to enrapture humanity.
War is the whole falsehood that wants to capture humanity.
Peace begins in the soul and ends in the heart.
War begins in the mind and ends in the body.

War forgets peace. Peace forgives war.
War is the death of the life human. Peace is the birth of the Life Divine.
Our vital passions want war.
Our psychic emotions desire peace.
War is clear futility in dire spear-stupidity.
Peace is flowing infinity in glowing eternity.

Man seeks war when he thinks that the world is not his.
Man invites war when he feels that he can conquer the world.
Man proclaims war when he dreams
That the world has already surrendered to him.

Man seeks peace because his earthly existence desperately needs it.
Man welcomes peace because he feels
that in peace alone is his life of achievement and fulfilment.
Man spreads peace because he wants to transcend death.

The animal in man wars against peace in the outer world,
in the world of conflicting ideas.
The divine in man wars against ignorance in the inner world,
in the world of mounting ideals.

The animal in man wants war for the sake of war,
war to devour the snoring world.
The divine in man wants peace for the sake of peace,
peace to feed the hungry world.

- Sri Chinmoy

From: Songs of The Soul

]]> http://www.shortpoems.org/poem/war-and-peace/feed/ 1 The Emerald Beyond http://www.shortpoems.org/poem/the-emerald-beyond/ http://www.shortpoems.org/poem/the-emerald-beyond/#comments Mon, 28 Apr 2008 20:04:19 +0000 tejvan http://www.shortpoems.org/poem/2008/04/28/the-emerald-beyond/ No more am I the foolish customer
Of a dry, sterile, intellectual breeze.
I shall buy only
The weaving visions of the emerald-Beyond.
My heart-tapestry
Shall capture the Himalayan Smiles
Of my Pilot Supreme.
In the burial of my sunken mind
Is the revival of my climbing heart.
In the burial of my deceased mind
Is the festival of my all-embracing life.

- Sri Chinmoy

By: Sri Chinmoy

]]> http://www.shortpoems.org/poem/the-emerald-beyond/feed/ 0 The Absolute http://www.shortpoems.org/poem/the-absolute/ http://www.shortpoems.org/poem/the-absolute/#comments Sun, 13 Apr 2008 11:00:43 +0000 tejvan http://www.shortpoems.org/poem/2008/04/13/the-absolute/ No mind, no form, I only exist;
Now ceased all will and thought;
The final end of Nature’s dance,
I am it whom I have sought.

A realm of Bliss bare, ultimate;
Beyond both knower and known;
A rest immense I enjoy at last;
I face the One alone.

I have crossed the secret ways of life,
I have become the Goal.
The Truth immutable is revealed;
I am the way, the God Soul.

My spirit aware of all the heights,
I am mute in the core of the Sun.
I barter nothing with time and deeds;
My cosmic play is done.

- Sri Chinmoy

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And open its beauty – bud?
Whose moonlit beauty
Do I see in the lily?
Who is the Eye of my eye;
Who is the Heart of my heart?
Alas, then why do I not see Him,
His face of transcendental Beauty,
Even in my dreams?

- Sri Chinmoy

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