Poems
THEME/S
If the whole cosmic utterance suddenly ceased,
The ocean's roar died down nor even came
The vague and wavering whisper of thin leaves,
The deepest slumber would be struck awake
By that immeasurable surprise of hush!
So too the gloom of ignorant mortal mind,
That ever-present sleep with open eyes,
Breaks under a vast pressure of potent peace
When all a sudden the multitudinous lure
Of transient things wafts never more its call
And the heart is left with fathomless secrecies.
Time washed in vast white waters of inwardness
Throbs through still space a cosmic chastity—
The universe moves divine with no desire,
Impelled by a truth in love with its own light,
Following no need but only a rapturous will
Flamed by God's vision of His myriad Self.
This is the world whose magic moods are we
In a wondrous waking to our soul's profound;
And, when we thrill there, clamourous common day
Vanishes or else lingers the ghost of a dream
Like one small fish haunting an infinite sea.
But whoso with a golden gurgle drowns
In eternity's pacific splendences
Makes of their dazzle a blinding sleep once more.
Bearing the new-found nectarous wakefulness
Like a cool aura clinging to our clay
We through the old eyes cleansed of ignorance
Must turn the intense inlook a God's outview,
Catch in the million lures of things that die
Flash after flash of an immortal fire
And, drawing from their fugitive strengths a stuff
Of brightness to build up a new life's core,
Hold in our heart the glamours of the dust
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Transfigured to a breakless beauty and power,
Innumerably faceted yet one,
A diamond of earth's divinity!
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