Falling like rose petals, releasing my pain
Sweat falls from me like Divine rain
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Ishvara Pranidhana
Surrender ego and gain the world
Beyond my self, the Self unfurled
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Dhanurasana
What once was hard now seems to me
A joy, a comfort, setting free
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Iamb, trochee, left unstressed
Decameter, pentameter, words unblessed
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Complete the circuit divine
Hands and fingertips touch
With gratitude both yours and mine
We chant gently, saying much
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When my voice has faded
And I am dead and gone
If all my love seems jaded
And all my dreams prove wrong
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This is actually lyrics for a song I wrote, in a more lugubrious phase of my life...
Key of G,3/4 time
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Another sad song from the lugubrious phase of my life...gotta write these down while I remember them, since I rarely play them anymore
Key of D
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A new poet, albeit one who has written many songs)
A Poet's Fear
Fear of expressing what my heart feels
Dread of dead metaphors
Of using clichés and unapproved ways
I sit like a boat without oars
Un-manifest, my songs unsung
Like a child that fears and abhors
A scolding teacher’s harshing tongue
Words stranded on the shores
Of my soul, unsent to one
Who hears me nevermore