Poem – Keep Your Mind Intend Upon

Keep your mind intent upon 
the path that leads to immortality. 

Should it stray from the path, 

it will fall into evil ways. 

Be firm with it and have no fear; 

For mind is like a suckling baby, 

which tosses restless even in its mother’s lap. 

Poem – Just for a Moment, Flowers Appear

Just for a moment, flowers appear
on the empty, nearly-spring tree.
Just for a second, wind

through the wild thicket thorns.
Self inside self, You are nothing but me.

Self inside self, I am only You.
What we are together

will never die.
The why and how of this?

What does it matter?

Poem – Intense Cold Makes Water Ice

Intense cold makes water ice.
Then the hard ice turns to slush

and back to water, so there are three

forms of consciousness: the individual,

the world, and God, which in the sun

of True Awareness melt to one flowing:
Lalla is that.
In meditation, I entered the love furnace,

burned impurities away, and as the sun

of a new knowing rose, I realized

that the words ‘Lalla’ and ‘God’

point to this peacefulness. 

Poem – III or Well Whatever Befalls

Ill or well, whatever befalls, 
let it come. 

My ears will not hear, 

My eyes will not see. 

When the Voice calls from within 

the inmost mind, 

The lamp of faith burns steady and bright 

even in the wind. 

Poem – If You have Melted Your Desires

If you’ve melted your desires
in the river of time, choose

to be a recluse, or choose

a family, the village job.
If you know the pure Lord within you,

you’ll be That, wherever.