Selected Poetry
" Tiger, tiger, burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry "
- William Blake
Excerpt from "The Tyger"
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" Because I could not stop for Death,
He kindly stopped for me;
The carriage held but just ourselves
And Immortality. "
- Emily Dickinson
- Excerpt from "The Chariot"
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" 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. "
- Sri Chinmoy
- Excerpt from "The Absolute"
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" But Savitri answered meeting scorn with scorn,
The mortal woman to the dreadful Lord:
"Who is this God imagined by thy night,
Contemptuously creating worlds disdained,
Who made for vanity the brilliant stars?
Not he who has reared his temple in my thoughts
And made his sacred floor my human heart.
My God is will and triumphs in his paths,
My God is love and sweetly suffers all. "
- Sri Aurobindo
-Excerpt From Savitri Book IV
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"Love is the cure,
for your pain will keep giving birth to more pain
until your eyes constantly exhale love
as effortlessly as your body yields its scent.”
- Rumi
- Love Poems from God by Daniel Ladinsky
I don't write poetry but I do like reading it.
A very good website for Spiritual poetry is
Poet Seers
Another good website for sacred poetry is
Poetry Chaikhana
This is Sri Chinmoy's first English poem. It is an analogy of a seeker's experience through life.
The Golden Flute
A sea of Peace and Joy and Light
Beyond my reach I know.
In me the storm-tossed weeping night
Finds room to rage and flow.
I cry aloud, but all in vain;
I helpless, the earth unkind
What soul of might can share my pain?
Death-dart alone I find.
A raft am I on the sea of Time,
My oars are washed away.
How can I hope to reach the clime
Of God's eternal Day?
But hark! I hear Thy golden Flute,
Its notes bring the Summit down.
Now safe am I, O Absolute!
Gone death, gone night's stark frown
