A Few Reflections

Sometime after Sri Chinmoy's passing I jotted down some reflections and reminiscences, letting the flow of memory with its sweet things and moments of understanding carry me along... Late summer...
4 January 2008
A Few Reflections

Christmas Trip Notes

Auckland to Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic – two days to get there, two weeks to recover with our spiritual family. On the long haul to North America, thirteen hours plus some, a chance to...
4 January 2008
Christmas Trip Notes

Poem For Subarata



    Sometimes I still come across
    these old photos of you,
    moments from a life, salvaged
    from the blur of time,
    here sepia...
31 December 2007
Poem For Subarata

Gulls

    They came again this dawn
    an avian rabble, beaked brutes
    clambering over my tin roof like a break-in,
    clumsy intruders poised
    to storm through my skylight...
31 December 2007
Gulls

Child-Sweet

    Your love prised me open like a clam
    numb heart
    opened to an oyster pearl
    of giggling joy
    nose twister
    bouncing on my poor chest
    like a...
31 December 2007
Child-Sweet

Past Lives

    Boothill, buzzards, buttes, badlands,
    an old shack on the river’s edge
    and the lazy brown hills
    climbing away into pale silhouette
    high blue, faraway....
31 December 2007
Past Lives

Mrs. Jewel and the Earthquake

    When I was just a little lad
    my Poppa said to me,
    "It's time to make your old man proud,
    a pianist you shall be."     He sent me off to music school
    with...
31 December 2007
Mrs. Jewel and the Earthquake

Earthquake

    At first it was a laugh
    the vase, trembling
    then tiptoeing across the mantelpiece
    and you caught the tumbling flowers
    just in time
    and that tiny...
31 December 2007
Earthquake

Enhancing Our Literary Heritage

    On occasuns that are numerus
    – it's really rather humerous –
    We get quite lost in sillines
    And literary dilliness
    And ponder on apostrofies
    And...
31 December 2007
Enhancing Our Literary Heritage

Enhancing Our Literary Heritage

How wonderfully rich and absorbing our English language is, how perfectly it can contain and express the nonsense that goes on inside our hearts and heads. Happily too, it's not static and...
31 December 2007
Enhancing Our Literary Heritage

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