Spiritual Poetry

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    Wake up Winebringer!

    Wake up Winebringer! And pour me a glass of wine.
    Throw dust on the head of this sad earth man.

    I’ve taken off my snazzy blue coat and bare-chested
    I clutch this full cup.

    Even though the rich or the politicians call us “trash,”
    To us their blue blood or fame means nothing.

    Give me more wine! All their dust blowing around in the wind of pride
    And desire is as worthless as a hole.

    The smoke from my burning heart
    Gags all those with ignorance as their goal.

    My mad heart has a secret
    That no one knows.

    The Beloved has stolen even the sweet solitude from my heart,
    And I am content.

    No one who has ever laid eyes on this silver-limbed Cypress,
    Would ever go looking in the woods for a cypress again.

    “Hafez,” the voice of inner wine will say;
    “Be careful what you ask for, you may just get what you want!”

    By:Hafez
     
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    "If I Adore You" by Rabia al Basri

    If I adore You out of fear of Hell, burn me in Hell!
    If I adore you out of desire for Paradise,
    Lock me out of Paradise.
    But if I adore you for Yourself alone,
    Do not deny to me Your eternal beauty.
     
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    Love - Corinithians 13

    If I speak in the tongues of men and angels,
    but have not love,
    I have become sounding brass or a tinkling symbol.



    And if I have prophecy and know all mysteries and all knowledge,
    and if I have all faith so as to remove mountains,
    but have not love, I am nothing.



    And if I dole out all my goods, and
    if I deliver my body that I may boast
    but have not love, nothing I am profited.



    Love is long suffering,
    love is kind,
    it is not jealous,
    love does not boast,
    it is not inflated.


    It is not discourteous,
    it is not selfish,
    it is not irritable,
    it does not enumerate the evil.
    It does not rejoice over the wrong, but rejoices in the truth



    From: Corinthians 13
     
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    Apocalypse

    Within, without the cosmos wide am I;
    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
     
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    Why wilt thou examine every little fibre of my soul,
    Spreading them out before the sun like stalks of flax
    to dry.
    The infant joy is beautiful, but its anatomy
    Horrible, ghast, and deadly: nought shalt thou find
    in it
    But death, despair, and everlasting brooding melancholy.

    William Blake in The Four Zoas.
     
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    Does the sun walk in glorious raiment on the secret

    floor
    Where the cold miser spreads his gold; or does the
    bright cloud drop
    On his stone threshold? Does his eye behold the beam
    that brings
    Expansion to the eye of pity; or will he bind himself
    Beside the ox to thy hard furrow? Does not that mild
    beam blot
    The bat, the owl, the glowing tiger, and the king of
    night?
    The sea fowl takes the wintry blast for a cov'ring to
    her limbs,
    And the wild snake the pestilence, to adorn him with
    gems and gold;
    And trees, and birds, and beasts, and men behold
    their eternal joy.
    Arise you little glancing wings, and sing your infant joy!
    Arise, and drink your bliss, for everything that lives is Holy!

    William Blake in The Visions of the Daughters of Albion.
     
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    Magnificent Existence

    God has made existence magnificent,
    He has made it through nonexistence.
    He has concealed the sea
    And exposed the foam,
    Concealed the wind and displayed the dust.
    The whirling dust flies like a dancer,
    The wind is invisible, known only by trust,
    The foam moves all about you,
    But without the sea no whirling takes place.
    Thought is hidden, speech is manifest.

    By: Rumi
     
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    Song of a Dream


    Once in the dream of a night I stood
    Lone in the light of a magical wood,
    Soul-deep in visions that poppy-like sprang;
    And spirits of Truth were the birds that sang,
    And spirits of Love were the stars that glowed,
    And spirits of Peace were the streams that flowed
    In that magical wood in the land of sleep.

    Lone in the light of that magical grove,
    I felt the stars of the spirits of Love
    Gather and gleam round my delicate youth,
    And I heard the song of the spirits of Truth;
    To quench my longing I bent me low
    By the streams of the spirits of Peace that flow
    In that magical wood in the land of sleep..



    By: Sarojini Naidu
     
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    Forever Dance

    I am happy even before I have a reason.

    I am full of Light even before the sky
    Can greet the sun or the moon.

    Dear companions,
    We have been in love with God
    For so very, very long.

    What can Hafiz now do but Forever
    Dance!

    - Hafiz
     
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    The Lord Is In Me

    The Lord is in me, and the Lord is in you,
    As life is hidden in every seed.
    So rubble your pride, my friend,
    And look for Him within you.

    When I sit in the heart of His world
    A million suns blaze with light,
    A burning blue sea spreads across the sky,
    Life's turmoil falls quiet,
    All the stains of suffering wash away.

    Listen to the unstruck bells and drums!
    Love is here; plunge into its rapture!
    Rains pour down without water;
    Rivers are streams of light.

    How could I ever express
    How blessed I feel
    To revel in such vast ecstasy
    In my own body?

    This is the music
    Of soul and soul meeting.
    Of the forgetting of all grief.
    This is the music
    That transcends all coming and going.

    -Kabir
     
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    Love More

    No remedy for black hate?
    Who says?
    Just love
    And love more,
    That's all.

    No remedy for helpless fear?
    Who says?
    Just love
    And love more,
    That's all.

    No remedy for blind darkness?
    Who says?
    Just love
    And love more,
    That's all.

    No remedy for lengthy bondage?
    Who says?
    Just love
    And love more,
    That's all.

    By: Sri Chinmoy
     
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    Do not go to the garden of flowers!
    O Friend! go not there;
    In your body is the garden of flowers.
    Take your seat on the thousand petals of the lotus, and there gaze on the Infinite Beauty.

    -Kabir
     
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    Carrying God


    No one can keep us from carrying God
    Wherever we go.

    No one can rob His Name
    From our heart as we try to relinquish our fears
    And at last stand -- Victorious.

    We do not have to leave him in the mosque
    Or church alone at night;

    We do not have to be jealous of tales of saints
    Or glorious masts, those intoxicated souls
    Who can make outrageous love with the Friend.

    We do not have to be envious of our spiritsÕ ability
    Which can sometimes touch God in a dream.

    Our yearning eyes, our warm-needing bodies,
    Can all be drenched in contentment
    And Light.

    No one anywhere can keep us
    From carrying the Beloved wherever we go.

    No one can rob His precious Name
    From the rhythm of my heart --
    Steps and breath.

    by: Hafiz
     
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    IN MY SOUL




    In
    my soul
    there is a temple, a shrine, a mosque, a church
    where I knee.



    Prayer should bring us to an altar where no walls or names exist.



    Is there not a region of love where the sovereignty is
    illumined nothing,



    where ecstasy gets poured into itself
    and becomes
    lost,



    where the wing is fully alive
    but has no mind or
    body?



    In
    my soul
    there is a temple, a shrine, a mosque,
    a church


    that dissolve, that
    dissolve in
    God.

    Rabia al Basri
     
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    Andal praises the day (NANNAL)that has appeared of
    its own accord for the observance of the vow.What it
    means is that for a soul,that day is the Good Day when
    he understands all about himself and God and their
    mutual relationship of Lord and Servant which is stated
    in the Tirumantram.
    2.The fruit in getting one's body is for serving the
    Lord here and hereafter (NEERADA PODUVIR)
    3.All those who have a longing for the service of the
    Lord are qualified to join her.(PODUVIR PODUMINO)
    4.She speaks of the radiance that attended on the face
    of her companions on hearing her requisition.(MADI
    NIRAINDA ;the moon is not in the sky alone!)
    5.The prosperity of Gokula consists of Sri Krishna's
    amiable pranks in stealing butter and girls; i.e.,the
    wealth of a Sri Vaishnava consists of his intoxicating
    love for and enjoyment of Lord's company.
    6.Nandagopa's vigilance in guarding Krishna with his
    very sharp spear in hand symbolises the "ASTHANE
    BHAYA-SANKA" and "MANGALASASANA-PARATA" which
    characterises a SriVaishnava.
    Yasoda's over-indulgence of Krishna is responsible
    for all his pranks and misbehaviour towards the young gopis.
    8.SrimanNarayana is the SOLE MEANS of attaining His Feet.
    This strikes the keynote of the Song Divine-TIRUPPAVAI.
    NARAYANANE (Upaya Swarupam) NAMAKKE (Adhikari Swarupam)
    PARAI (Phala Swarupam) TARUVAN.The safest means of securing
    Him is not Karma yoga etc but His Grace only.
    That is the sum and substance of this verse.
     
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    seeker of truth
    follow no path
    all paths lead where
    truth is here

    ~e.e. cummings~
     
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    The Music

    My friend, the stain of the Great Dancer has penetrated my body.
    I drank the cup of music, and I am hopelessly drunk.
    Moreover I stay drunk, no matter what I do to become sober.
    Rana, who disapproves, gave me one basket with a snake in it.
    Mira folded the snake around her neck, it was a lover's necklace, lovely!
    Rana's next gift was poison: "This is something for you, Mira."
    She repeated the Holy Name in her chest, and drank it, it was good!
    Every name He has is praise; that's the cup I like to drink, and only that.
    "The Great Dancer is my husband," Mira says, "rain washes off all the other colors."

    ~Mirabai~
     
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    If A Tree Could Wander

    Oh, if a tree could wander
    and move with foot and wings!
    It would not suffer the axe blows
    and not the pain of saws!

    For would the sun not wander
    away in every night ?
    How could at ev'ry morning
    the world be lighted up?

    And if the ocean's water
    would not rise to the sky,
    How would the plants be quickened
    by streams and gentle rain?

    The drop that left its homeland,
    the sea, and then returned ?
    It found an oyster waiting
    and grew into a pearl.

    Did Yusaf not leave his father,
    in grief and tears and despair?
    Did he not, by such a journey,
    gain kingdom and fortune wide?

    Did not the Prophet travel
    to far Medina, friend?
    And there he found a new kingdom
    and ruled a hundred lands.

    You lack a foot to travel?
    Then journey into yourself!
    And like a mine of rubies
    receive the sunbeams? print!

    Out of yourself ? such a journey
    will lead you to your self,
    It leads to transformation
    of dust into pure gold!

    ~Rumi
     
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    A NOISELESS, patient spider,
    I mark'd, where, on a little promontory, it stood, isolated;
    Mark'd how, to explore the vacant, vast surrounding,
    It launch'd forth filament, filament, filament, out of itself;
    Ever unreeling them--ever tirelessly speeding them.

    And you, O my Soul, where you stand,
    Surrounded, surrounded, in measureless oceans of space,
    Ceaselessly musing, venturing, throwing,--seeking the spheres, to connect them;
    Till the bridge you will need, be form'd--till the ductile anchor hold;
    Till the gossamer thread you fling, catch somewhere, O my Soul.
    - Walt Whitman
     
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    (The Thousand-hooded Serpent) Shesha, Ganesha,Mahesha (Shiva), Dinesha (Sun), Suresh (Indra) all sing in HIS praise
    HE who is infinite, endless, unbreakable, unpiercable, undifferentiable, so the Good Vedas say
    Narada, Sukhdeva, Vyasa have all failed in their quest to fathom HIM
    And yet the daughters of cowherds make HIM dance for a glass of buttermilk



    Gods like Shiva and Brahma wish to spread dharma through dhyana
    But because Raskhan has a good heart,Krishna comes to him, even though he[Raskhan] is unintelligent
    Beautiful wives of the Gods would not hesitate to give their lives for HIM
    And yet the daughters of cowherds make HIM dance for a glass of buttermilk
     

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