PEACE POETRY

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Comment by janice wilson on September 6, 2010 at 12:44am

nice to come and read the wonderful new comments all :)

a poem that recently came my way to enjoy *

# 17 Kabir
The light of the sun, the moon and the stars shines bright:
The melody of love swells forth
...And the rhythm of love’s detachment beats the time.
Day and night, the chorus of music fills the heavens.
And Kabir says: ”My Beloved One gleams like the lightning flash in the sky.”

Do you know how the moments perform their adoration?
Waving its row of lamps, the universe sings in worship day and night.
There are the hidden banner and the secret canopy:
There the sound of the unseen bells is heard.
Kabir says: ”There adoration never ceases;
There the Lord of the Universe sits on His throne.”
The whole world does its works and commits its errors:
But few are the lovers who know the Beloved.
The devout seeker is he who mingles in his heart
The double currents of love and detachment,
Like the mingling of the streams of Ganges and Jumna;
In his heart the sacred water flows day and night;
And thus the round of births and deaths is brought to an end.

Behold what wonderful rest is in the Supreme Spirit!
And he enjoys it, who makes himself meet for it.
Held by the cords of love, the swing of the Ocean of Joy sways to and fro;
And a mighty sound breaks forth in song.
See what a lotus blooms there without water!
And Kabir says: ”My heart’s bee drinks its nectar.”

What a wonderful lotus it is that blooms at the heart
Of the spinning wheel of the universe!
Only a few pure souls know of its true delight.
Music is all around it and there the heart partakes of the joy of the Infinite Sea.
Kabir says: ”Dive thou into that Ocean of sweetness:
Thus let all errors of life and of death flee away.”

Behold how the thirst of the five senses is quenched there
And the three forms of misery are no more!
Kabir says: ”It is the sport of the Unattainable One:
Look within and behold how the moon-beams of that Hidden One shine in you.”
There falls the rhythmic beat of life and death:
Rapture wells forth and all space is radiant with light.
There the Unstruck Music is sounded;
It is the music of the love of the three worlds.
There millions of lamps of sun and of moon are burning;
There the drum beats and the lover swings in play.
There love-songs resound and light rains in showers
And the worshipper is entranced in the taste of the heavenly nectar.
Look upon life and death; there is no separation between them.
The right hand and the left hand are one and the same.
Kabir says: ”There the wise man is speechless;
For this truth may never be found in Vedas or in books.”

I have had my Seat on the Self-poised One,
I have drunk of the Cup of the Ineffable,
I have found the Key of the Mystery,
I have reached the Root of Union.
Travelling by no track, I have come to the Sorrowless Land:
Very easily has the mercy of the great Lord come upon me.
They have sung of Him as infinite and unattainable:
But I in my meditations have seen Him without sight.
That is indeed the sorrowless land and none know the path that leads there:
Only he who is on that path has surely transcended all sorrow.

Wonderful is that land of rest to which no merit can win;
It is the wise who has seen it, it is the wise who has sung of it.
This is the Ultimate Word: but can any express its marvellous savor?
He who has savored it once, he knows what joy it can give.
Kabir says: ”Knowing it, the ignorant man becomes wise
And the wise man becomes speechless and silent.
The worshipper is utterly inebriated,
His wisdom and his detachment are made perfect;
He drinks from the cup of the inbreathings and the outbreathings of love.”

There the whole sky is filled with sound
And there that music is made without fingers and without strings;
There the game of pleasure and pain does not cease.
Kabir says: ”If you merge your life in the Ocean of Life,
You will find your life in the Supreme Land of Bliss.”
What a frenzy of ecstasy there is in every hour!
And the worshipper is pressing out and drinking the essence of the hours:
He lives in the life of Brahma.
I speak truth for I have accepted truth in life;
I am now attached to truth, I have swept all tinsel away.
Kabir says: ”Thus is the worshipper set free from fear;
thus have all errors of life and of death left him.”

There the sky is filled with music:
There it rains nectar:
There the harp-strings jingle, and there the drums beat.
What a secret splendour is there, in the mansion of the sky!
There no mention is made of the rising and the setting of the sun;
In the ocean of manifestation, which is the light of love,
Day and night are felt to be one.
Joy forever, no sorrow, no struggle!
There have I seen joy filled to the brim, perfection of joy;
No place for error is there.
Kabir says: ”There have I witnessed the sport of One Bliss!”

I have known in my body the sport of the universe:
I have escaped from the error of this world.
The inward and the outward are become as one sky,
The Infinite and the finite are united:
I am drunken with the sight of this All!
This Light of Thine fulfils the universe:
The lamp of love that burns on the salver of knowledge.
Kabir says: ”There error cannot enter:
The conflict of life and death is felt no more.”

--Song #17 from "Songs of Kabir" by Rabindranath Tagore

Comment by desmond dillon on September 5, 2010 at 7:34pm

"There never was a good war or a bad peace" Benjamin Franklin

Comment by Paula on September 3, 2010 at 8:26pm

Thank you, Art. It's always a great pleasure to read what you share with us.
have a blessed weekend.

Comment by Paula on August 28, 2010 at 6:14pm

I carry your heart with me
(I carry it in my heart)
I am never without it
(anywhere I go you go, my dear;
and whatever is done by only me
is your doing, my darling)
I fear no fate
(for you are my fate,my sweet)
I want no world
(for beautiful, you are my world, my true)
and it's you are
whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you

here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root
and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky
of a tree called life;
which grows
higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

I carry your heart
(I carry it in my heart)

E. E. Cummings

Comment by desmond dillon on August 27, 2010 at 5:28pm

peep thru' the keyhole and you will see
there is not a single thing
that can help but to sing
the praises of Life and Joy
and just everything
.... as best as they can manage.

Comment by desmond dillon on August 27, 2010 at 5:25pm

the devil knows not for whom he toils

Comment by Paula on August 18, 2010 at 5:43pm

It is always a pleasure to read your wonderful words, Art. Have a blessed day!

Comment by janice wilson on August 18, 2010 at 5:14pm

nice one david g *

Comment by David Gould on August 17, 2010 at 11:19pm

War Anyone?

War leads to destruction of people
both inside and out
War leads to greed and not need
as arms dealers smile
war is an aberration of the species
as we kill ourselves.
And all because we want and want
what they have
their oil wells and hard minerals
so we fight
and destroy that wonderful jewel
the human spirit.

David © 17th August 2010

Comment by Paula on August 17, 2010 at 4:16pm

Beautiful thought, Art. Thank you for sharing

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