Thank you to Editor Akshay Kumar Roy for publishing this poem in LIPI Magazine. 

Within The Framework Of Life’s Breath

Life Force 1

Nature:

The crooning of nightingales

laughing at the moon.

After a winter, bitter,

scrolls a sublime summer,

Even with sun streamed warmth 

not penetrating deeper woods.

A garden etched with wildflowers.

A necklace chain of blossoms.

The gardener’s music leaves 

benevolent smiles on the turned earth.

I do, while weather changes,

thirst for May,

and beg it to

convey Heaven’s influence

to all I love.

Life Force II

Magic:

Make the earth invisible and change nature,

hours, hours,

long sprung and weighty.

Inhabitants,

close to turrets frolic,

fancifully clad.

Starry souls creeping in

by way of soundless entry.

Enchantments won from wise men.

Life Force III

Adventure:

The fall of Lucifer

and apples from a tree.

The glory of a crown denied.

Our insecure future

born from what we lack,

as we drive within life’s highway’s blaze.

Life Force IV

Freedom:

Now is the time for all good men,

and We the People

to allow our favors to last. 

When yesterday’s gone,

we should hope to neither divide,

nor forget.

Life Force V

Truth:

Keep a slow faith.

Who brings messages to the

messenger birds,

roosting on ancient signs?

Under a city of clouds,

who is telling the stories 

sprung from lightening bolts?

Life Force VI

Stillness:

An arch of tombs within the walls of time.

Feel the patronage of floating ghosts,

under the ceiling of Heaven.

The rhythm of angels,

using midnight as a good disguise,

and the witnessing of monsters,

explained by a withdrawn hermit.

All hearts have one true link,

our life forces,

defining us,

and guiding our dreams.