Sail My Heartbeat Sail
This series of seventy rhyming poems was commenced on Sunday, 14 June 1998 in New York. The first volume Part 1, was completed in three days, the second Part 2 of seventy poems, was completed in 2 days in Pondicherry India on the 6th and 7th July 1998. It is Sri Chinmoy's ardent aspiration to offer 7,000 "Sail My Heartbeat Sail" poems to his Lord Beloved Supreme.
The cover artwork drawn by Sri Chinmoy in 1976 represents the Golden Boat, the emblem of Sri Chinmoy's blessingful mission in the West.
CHOICE HOUR
How can I not love
The beauty of a flower!
How can I not rise
At my sweet Lord's choice Hour!
PERFECTION-DREAM
To be a chosen child
Of my Lord Supreme,
My crying-smiling heart's
Perfection-dream.
GOD-CLIMBING FIRE
Once more I shall become
My heart's God-climbing fire.
My eyes shall see nowhere
The face and body of mire.
IMPURITY-INSECURITY
Sleeplessly I keep my mind
Free from impurity-ties.
Breathlessly I keep my heart
Empty of insecurity-cries.
MY DREAM
Mine is a birthless
And deathless dream:
To breathe the Heart
Of my Lord Supreme.
MY GRATITUDE-HEART
The fragrance
Of my God-gratitude-heart
Has smashed
My mind's ego-pride-dart.
ECSTASTY'S ENDLESS ROAD
I see no more my earth-bound mind's
Despair-gloom-cave.
Ecstasy's endless road my life
Is ready to pave.
SILENCE
From the Silence Unknowable
To the Sound knowable I came
To play and sing and dance
With a tiny, fragile frame,
And build a rainbow-bridge
Between Heaven and earth
For my sweet Supreme to travel
And flood all-where His Birth.
HEART-SMILE
Whom I seek
Is within me.
I pine His
Heart-Smile to be.
EMPTINESS
Empty of heaviness-darkness
My mind, my heart today;
Behold, my soul-ecstasy
And I together play!
MY POETRY
My poetry
Tells me about its Heaven-Source.
Its sorrows
And joys - my journey's course.
MY MUSIC
My music
Tells me where to dive
And fly
To clasp ecstasy's drive.
SMILES AND MILES
Each time
My happiness-heart smiles,
My life
Enjoys expanding miles.
COMPLAINS AND CONTAINS
My mind
Complains, complains, complains.
My heart
My Lord's Fondness contains.
INTRICATE AND INTIMATE
My suspicion-mind
Makes everything intricate.
My aspiration-heart
Makes everybody intimate.
COMPLAINT-SEEDS
Wherever
My doubt-mind goes,
Complaint-seeds
Proudly it sows.
PSEUDO-REALITY
Within, without,
You have no divinity.
Your mind enjoys
Pseudo-reality.
DESERT-MIND VERSUS PARADISE-HEART
There was a time
When my life was a desert-mind,
And now in me
Beauty's paradise-heart I find.
~ Sri Chinmoy
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