Poems
The true meaning in life is explored by Janina Flueras in this beautifully crafted collection of poems. While our material desires may be met in our modern-day lives, we may still not be happy. The poems in Beyond: A Collection of Poems explore through metaphor the truth and beauty of what is beyond our mundane lives. Poetry can be the chariot which takes readers on a journey to find the source of truth, and the real joy and fulfilment within ourselves.
Janina Flueras’s book is available as an e-book on Amazon.
Janina is a Sahaja yogini from Romania. Her writing is inspired by her deep love of Shri Mataji, and her devotion to spreading Sahaja Yoga through her poems. Here are two examples of her poems:
Art
Only when my soul
becomes an arch between me
and Thee –
a rainbow above the world –
does my voice become a song,
my look become the light,
and my words become poetry.
It’s Such a Joy
It’s such a joy for me
to know
that the road I’m walking on,
this road that takes away all sin,
this road on which sometimes
I stumble over the stones,
this road which sometimes
I’m so afraid to travel on,
this inner road
sublimates my being.
At its end
I’ll be the perfume
that devotes itself to
Thy feet.
It was me who didn’t see
Didn’t see you
Looked everywhere outside
But never turned inside to my own heart
In all my love
All my pain and all my sorrow
In all my hope and all my joy
You were there with me
It was me who didn’t turn to you
You were my joy in all my play
You indeed were the joy
And I indulged in all that joy
Days spent in play
You were there deep in my heart
In the songs I sang in my sorrow and joy
You were the words, you were the tune
It was me who never sang your songs
Please be alit oh spirit
And enlighten this attention
Let me be immersed totally in you
Sing the song of love
Lost in complete joy!
Meghamala Basu
Autumn leaves
The tree outside my house
overnight it turned from green to yellow
teaching us an important lesson
to be ready and prepared for a change.
The fall is here to welcome the winter
when silent work gets done under cover
to manifest in fresh green spring
to be followed by riot of summer’s colour!
Let us learn from nature to let go the useless
hibernate from externals and seek within
to find the real precious treasure
that’s secretly embedded deep in!
Armaity Bhabha
(Photograph: underwoodjones.farmnet.com.au)
Clouds
Bowing in ritual
Worshipping the Eternal
My heart meets Thee at Thy Place
And sees Thy Face.
Illusions during the day
Are gone out of my way
With vibrant emotion
At the further point of my devotion
No more I exist
Only Thee exists.
Like birds playing
Like flowers blooming
Reduce the distance
Make me pure existence
So that, at Thy Place
Always my heart sees Thy Face.
Meenakshi