Sri Chinmoy Poetry Festival

in a garden-like meditative setting

Favorite poems submitted by you – our readers.

I have immediate solutions

by Sri Chinmoy

My seeker friends,
You are telling me
That you have immediate problems.

I wish to tell you
That I have immediate solutions.

My solutions are very simple and direct.

Just come with me and sit
At my Lord’s Forgiveness-Feet.

Just come with me and look
At my Lord’s Compassion-Eyes.

Just come with me and swim
In the sea of my Lord’s
Satisfaction-Heart.

Lo and behold, all your problems
Have totally vanished,
Forever and forever.
-Sri Chinmoy, Aurora-Flora, Agni Press, 1982

submitted by Tatyana via our contact form

Let’s remake the world with words

by Gregory Orr

Let’s remake the world with words.
Not frivolously, nor
To hide from what we fear,
But with a purpose.

Let’s,
As Wordsworth said, remove
“The dust of custom” so things
Shine again, each object arrayed
In its robe of original light.

And then we’ll see the world
As if for the first time,
As once we gazed at the beloved
Who was gazing at us.
-Gregory Orr, Concerning the Book That Is the Body of the Beloved, Copper Canyon Press, 2005.

submitted by Sharani Robins, East Providence, Rhode Island, USA

A thousand hopes

by Sri Chinmoy

A thousand hopes
Embody
A thousand fearful Earth-tears.
Again,
A thousand hopes
Embody
A thousand fruitful Heaven-smiles.