English Poetry

HIRANYAGARBHA The inverted volcano In the sky Pours down gold. Streams of molten light Blossom each point In space. The sky erupts Into golden flakes. Petals of aureate rose Unfold, Crowding sight, Floating in air. Lava of love. Sparkles of dust, And ash from above,...

UNTITLED (2) Lord, I am free Of the tyranny of experience. I have known The tasteless fruit upon my only sense. I am the bird Of golden feather perched atop the tree Watching unperturbed the old self Eating the fruit of desire On a branch below. Lord, I am He That...

WILZEY Teacher, Critic, Saint You wore light about you Like a white cape Gentle and flowing, Classy as you. Each sentence followed By an Uh-huh! Each word enunciated With care, like a quaint Butterfly floating in the air, Rising in the sunlight, And blossoms quiet...

TUOLUMNE MEADOWS, YOSEMITE Mirror of sound, Gleams of stillness Amid shades of green, From the deepest emerald, To smudges of teal, moss And fern, chartreuse, grass And copper, jade and pine, Sea of verdure deep deep deep In the white pit. White pours from each shade,...

THE METAMORPHOSIS OF NARCISSUS, DALI, 1937 How a look turned into gaze, Gaze into stare, Stare into stone? I watched in wonder And wonder grew, A self-fulfilling flower, Lucid, captive and captivating, At the still surface of the pool. I watched, alone, At the silver...

PORTRAIT I shall draw your face with evening light, Build up a body of sandalwood fire, Twine your hair in a blaze of stars, And shade your eyelashes with glow of sky. And I shall sing to a flowing river And mix its waves with your laughter. Innumerable leaves waving...

METAMORPHOSIS I have woven a chrysalis Around my soul And wrapped myself In white and gold. In the single flame of sleep All is burnt, The caterpillar riches And all the past. And now the slow awakening Of wings, As into the finite Wriggles the infinite. Want new...

WE We do as we are done by. In waves you flow all over me. We grow in you and I. While all our pasts and futures die, O Love! Thy strange chemistry! We do as we are done by. While butterflies bloom and flowers fly And drown in a fierier sea, We grow in you and I. Our...

THIS LAST PEARL OF MINE… (This happens when Laila is married to a rich Prince and separated from her lover Majnu. On the fated night, she is being taken away in a caravan across the desert of Arabia and Majnu silently watches the caravan passing, burying deep his pain...