Poetry for the Inner Ear

my sorrow high as mount sinai let me see holy throne honoring wounds and blood spilled currently awaiting patiently to see god face to face to destroy power of death

 passion for lord turned into growing scourge for archfiend: prayer set up truth in my heart grateful to king of heavens for every trouble happening in my life: humility is the door to grace

 tribulations teach us for a lifetime we bear grievous marks of ancestors nobly shaped by toughest battles repairing my personal altar devoid  of immorality and commercialism: worship the king while he is here

 doing the right thing always no disease afflicts us faith in god of glory who heals where holy passion flows where hearing god's voice is possible o father! pray thee show me such places

 searching truth kneeling before my god make my life fruitful several hours I languish  worst trials ere the soul finds hilltops: hidden hand at work

  The best prayer I ever prayed had enough sin to damn the whole world. John Bunyan   Never think to quit My master is my reason to suffer Thank god for his kind grace   Fully dependent on god This is my song: His will is mine

 life is too transient to sing all praise of  our guiding star noting left of love and kindness wild waves and the danger sickening anguish doth prey silence and wisdom go together 'still waters run deep' noise creates delusion

 on mount sinai milton hears divine whisper: salvation springs up within we fear no evil near murmuring silver stream: treat crystal water like goddess

 pollution real source of coronavirus no longer visible dewy grass: earth mourns for loss of trees loving the humble and downtrodden faithful to great principles: brighter world

 good samaritan with shining glory defeats army of tyrant: will of god makes it happen monster at the door may trigger ww3 doomsday: generosity is what will save earth

 all the dwellers of neighboring meadows: hands full of grass with nonviolence and kindness resting and bowing low on god's feet: restoring life energy

 embraces oneness meditation  discards dualism: lifetime effort green pastures love migratory birds experiencing new lands

 brooding over st. casimir chapel at distance I gaze: all bright as angel wooden village church such sacred repose: here zephyrs play

 dreadful sound all around fireball in the air: war has begun best philosopher child takes delight plucking garden flower: beauty of god

  nailed body on tree st. francis suffered stigmata: helpless eyewitnesses   dance in blue heaven how strongly warbler loves flight mighty winged deity chirps all around

 ancient monastery high mountain meadow near me: hundred year old monk smiles from darkness to light journey with buddha in a meditation cave

 nuke bombers threaten heading toward world war 3: this will devastate planet moment by moment kindness in all situations: god's will for all of us

  unable to hear birds chirping storm alone I hear storm of lockdown   thanksgiving in days of grief tiny acts of kindness perfect offering to god

  honor truth in a kind heart however painful your storm is: darkness is flying away   one pointed awareness nowness of now meditation is quite right

 world history full of wars: to grief we come by disdain and revenge indifferent to yesterday's blunders living in the present moment: zen habit

 oasis of hope: philosophic books teach us never quit without struggle pounded by virus outbreak today is hour of pain pray for a better tomorrow

 ruthless brutality on earth the innocent among assassins: we are unworthy of lord's love full of ecstasy praying to avert nuclear war: tibetan buddhist yogi

 glorious treasure house: enjoying eternity in each moment living in the present nuclear winter all life destroyed: give peace a chance

 sermon on mount inspires peacemaker avert third world war: global apocalypse sunshine of our lives my sure support little singing bird

 insane nuclear war ghastly death staring us in the face: we need peace and love crooked warmongers live  doing tricks unaware of mercy:  something satanic about it

 thunder terrible winter's awful hour: little girl shuts the door flowery lovely greens change cruel barbarian: a life style

  hemingway* strong at broken places enlightened by tribulation in our corrupted time   devil comes with bitter ends disease strikes earth no rest but in blessed love * The Nobel Prize in Literature 1954 was awarded to  Ernest Miller Hemingway

 haiku about unseen power, grace and an ideal of  interior harmony even on darkest hour hope for peace of mind within olive grove of   grace   ever soft and fair inward harmony of soul never fears cruel tyrant

  let not past blunder frustrate us to quit: impossible is possible   good health from temperance   planting more trees:   path forward to defeat disease

  bleeding heart happy with such fancies king will amaze me today things will go better tomorrow   pining for tranquility grant grace to hear thy voice ere sharks arrive

 better than angel beloved of my soul advises immolate your own will to regain lost paradise quest for eternal light hostile powers terrified me: I trusted merciful lord and received truth

  Lustrous image of my lord I saw in pure waters of sacred river: Ethereal pearl flows to devotee   Out of tune with five elements We like coarser pleasures Unaware of hell roars beneath five elements: earth, water, fire, sky, air

 being in agony dreadful monster disease: figure of  world's dark side may holy spirit restore us to good health pray to lord of love during global pandemic grant thy kind mercy to us   

 all paths barred to us desperately ill and life in danger: we thirst for an angel of pure joy inward eye of  charity irradiates our planet with love: sacred space is created by what we give

  yoga helped win the battle reach nirvana attended by rose the spring will soon be here   flowery greens change stubborn tyrant: feeling ashamed of himself

  sharing suffering of others helps us handle the storm aspiring to perfection filling cups with holy   water as mysterious deity’s meals I gaze at space between breaths

 In his will is our peace (Dante) waking or sleep I count my blessings and thank my master regardless of whate’er adversary does create another dawn on troubled earth where coronavirus has no dominion where we sit quietly in a room all alone revival of new life the day is come to cut archfiend’s snares and love the pair of lamb and holy spirit

  sublime mysterious voice reveals secret of salvation on each occasion be obedient and humble you will know thy lord at the garden gate if you don’t muddy love’s stream   benevolent angel walks ever with you you will see his face if you have almost died

 with patience and charity we hope to find salvation: fierce storms assail pining for ideal world where kindness has greatest value where zen is our healing medicine

 nonviolence begins with a smile devoid of  guile: we have to gain love and kindness our culture  made a virtue of war: and then the horror unstoppable  

 restless thunderstorm fails to touch meditating monk's wall gazing bewildered fiend trapped in body declines to obey will of  others: eye of angel in pain

 devil stole peace a long time ago: mother earth needs monk to pray in inner temple better to love your own company fruitful life feeds on solitude braving thunderstorm alone

 better than despair and decay fly like eagle amid storm as though our life depended on it  instead of thinking how to avert nuclear war virtuous person escapes to other planets

 pride hardly does us good humility makes us greater than human: the story of eternal truth whenever in agony: sonorous river near meadow wishes me well and grants peace

 climbing the hills enjoying clouds floating above me: nature gives more than it takes demons of chaos fail to touch me: lord's arms ever protect 

 what a friend we have in breathing balm: our only joy in a cruel world this is the land of  barbaric swords we have lost those fountains and meadows: terror has shown its claws

 altruistic person brightens earth best role model worker of miracles gentle monk's race to journey with buddha: salvation begins

 being abandoned by thousands of cancers: death of meadow   crystal flowing of stream birth of  love in every breeze: learning nature

 prefer nonviolence to  assured destruction of  earth: buddha's middle way bird's melody  and echoing green hear lord's footsteps

 much safer to be humble than to command: eternal truth nuclear warheads horror and despair: hoping some sunny clime

  we have too much of brutality we are unworthy of lord's love: armies for prey fight soul's purest part no longer aware of assassin: meditating in a solitary grove

 beneath frost of  nuclear arsenal glows lord's mercy today and forever  heaven and earth smile fear fails to appal as I find fountains of peace are within

 patience and temperance avert our total doom: pray no one ever presses nuclear button biblical flood may drown earth love and forgiveness do everything for us let us trust

two sacred haiku  kneeling knee truth of  confession grace pouring in immaculate zone ceaseless burning of incense arising to paradise of immortal beauty: pity cometh down

 imitating breath of sun and earth smiles: living under a superior light ever ready to hear where god wants us to go: stay at home

 atomic bomb threatens mother earth pining for a peaceful place to live in love with rose of nonviolence no to ferocity of barbarism: thanks to mercy of human beings

 due to world war 3 poetic fire dim darkness is visible one more underground nuclear test wrong again: let an angel whisper peace

 no need to be dumbstruck by coronavirus: nothing is exactly as it seems peace and love call us to remember hiroshima ban atomic bombing

 yes to peace no to war: the anchor of monk biological weapon face of evil: world digging its own grave o to war:

escape to monastery solitary hills restoring health to a broken world drunk warmongers darkest moments pine for rain on earth

upon patience and temperance all now centers: our story of pandemic working unmasked on a new book in my home: combating coronavirus isolation

walking all alone amid dewy lawns: magic moments fly away coronavirus tyrant's wrath: I have a few godly books to read

walking amid meadows forest-side connects us with spirit within and bliss will join nuclear war no longer improbable: love peace or disappear  connects us with spirit within

solitary hills escape to monastery: wanting to live melody of  morning in the meadows: fear of corona felt no more

active friendship with quietude of nature: joy would be present vanity and pride river of  blood: nearness of war

false science betrayed destruction before us: we like no more philosophic mind better than all books green trees: angels are here b

nourishing soul with innocence: once more safe with my angel beautiful meadow proper place to meditate on love and mercy

humming bees no more cleave to our breath: coronavirus intrusion divine light reveals secret of health we should turn to our angels living within innermost heart

gloomy horrors of nuclear winter foster-mother earth in pain: world war3 mirth and fun no more corona virus fastened us down: return to us again beauties of good old days

ethnic hatred atrocities and oppressed earth bleeding planet needs child-like vision the soul likes to fly with sweet birds: the simple truth

quest of  paradise on earth compassion and nonviolence: this alone is our true self find all happiness in diverse culture rainbow: green pastures of peace

found a little bit of heaven those tender showers: corona virus across the world from bad to worse only aim is to survive: dark despair around

stay at home a holiday to mad crowd introvert paradise hearing music of wind staring at sun: lockdown

buddha takes such delight near the river now no one has yet loved veiled prophet great lama: tibetan another world

living near the tree of knowledge monk breathes in buddha: heavenly altar heart seizure by sun veritable face of  perfection world of light

memories of war bending sage praying: nightmare begins new battle the innocent jumped off the tower there was no other choice: stones heard the shrieks

carved in stone the light of a buddha figure: blessing given to monk starry heavens ecstatic illumination: the reason we love life

the less talk the better: laughing buddha silent whispering by waters of childhood: miracle will happen

windows are  dark no one is at home: silence keeping things whole end of civilization destruction mutual assured: nuclear war no one can win

by choice or chance turning to my angels: permanent sanctuary light of truth as we hear murmuring streamlet unaware of ancient repetition of plague

surviving amid postmodern wasteland: strength of social distancing better to lie down with mantra meditating: reserving inner space

religious gleam deepest current: holy man's progress sudden enlightenment worldliness fails to touch him: monk is still and meditates

several hours in library allow us visionary company: we forget our burning shame encountering hurricanes with grace notes: the shape of hope

beware fangs of coronavirus virus sternest rotten at the heart  affrights millions: pray almighty god to grant us health and longevity

translucence of eternal in temporal: two in one spring season: earth like a child dancing nicely

that violence those wars fail to hear healing word of gentle breeze pray day and night no weapon so mighty: hounds are in view

haiku about nature breathing among the woods, and prophet's love for peace walk into the woods never fails to please: some comfort for our existential pain chaos and darkness over prophet creates thousand years of peace: green islands of  utopia

haiku about magic of humility and great significance of patience humility is first step on sacred ladder: devil won't push into mud again patiently waiting for god little song-bird in heart is hopeful: miracle will happen one day

haiku about buddha's message of peace and karma touching the human heart to spread word of love and peace buddha looking for a a real relationship karma doesn't deserve yet you grant your favor: this is your kindness

haiku about infinite love for nature and breath prayer  fresh green groves on other side of river: escape poet gazing for ever heartbeat of prayer is paradise regained: knock upon altar

haiku about love for solitude, the very epitome of  virtue and intelligence no solitude no poetry: steer away from frivolous world treading softly righteousness develops: lifetime's decision

haiku about kindness and elixir of life a random act of kindness feeding starving orphans good things happening with humbleness we enter inner sanctuary: elixir of life

haiku about monk's heart and imagination in quest of sanity the sun coming loving conversation with buddha:  blessed monk 

tireless waiting receiving philosophy and prophecy: blessed altar

haiku about love and peace in the present times afflicted with violence and erroneous attitude toward life suffering amid satanic power quest for love from kind eye: going out at night

haiku about 'the general drama of pain' and world of positive thinking dreary sea flows between mortal life and eternity we seem to have lived in vain an angel spoke scorn all fear forty prophets write the bible