More Rose Poems
by Sri Chinmoy
| God is always eager To unfold my heart-rose petals Lovingly and compassionately. * | May each breath of mine Be the fragrance of A morning rose. * |
| If your meditations Are blue-gold silences of love; Then you will, without fail, Have a silver-rose heart of joy. * | If it is real Truth, Then it will always remain Fresh like the morning rose. * |
| The key to God's Heart-Kingdom Can be found Inside your heart's Rose-purity-garden. * | My Lord Supreme, Do make me my soul-bird's Rose-fragrance. * |
| If I could start my life Once more, I would every day become A new morning rose In the garden of the universe. * | The seeker's offering Of an iota of gratitude to God Is as beautiful as a rose Held by God in His own Hand. * |
Aspire, aspire, O seeker! One day God's Rose-Smile Will grow In your heart-garden. * | When we offer a rose To someone, Its beauty and fragrance Secretly remain with us. * |
| I enter into my mind-jungle To paint it with rose-purity-colours. I enter into my heart-garden To paint it with lotus-divinity-colours. * | Heaven is so far from the human mind, But the heart is extremely close. Heaven commands the mind to halt its journey, And calls the heart its rose. * |
| My soul's sunlit path Is beautifully covered With my heart's rose petals. * | My prayerful thoughts Are always cradled In the petals of rose-beauty. * |
| God has shown me Obstacle-thorns Only to make me long for Progress-roses. * | All human beings are roses Inside my heart-garden. Their sweetness-fragrance Is my oneness-satisfaction-peace. * |
| He who sees the beauty Of his inner rose And he who smells the fragrance Of his inner rose Cannot be torn By the thorns of human life. | When we offer a rose to someone, Its beauty and fragrance secretly remain with us. |

