LOVE
Love!
Alight upon Earth
With Beauty Splendour and Mirth
To make it Paradise-worth:
The Dawn of revelation -
Of the Supreme Act
To let us live together..
Love! You are always pure!
Enliven us,
Enlighten us -
With your Compassion vast.
Where we lie,
Full of mire and darkness,
We are tied to its tie.
Unite us in your Felicity Heavenly!
We await still
To hear the distant call of the Divine appeal;
Beyond mind and body
To reach your unseen ecstasy.
Where human whisper ever dares not to tread,
Rare Blossoms send prayers to the unseen Godhead;
We long to be merged in the
fathomless blithe -
Forever to last
A rapturous compromise!
The Supreme Act.
We never part,
Still poles apart!
Hearts breathe not
Speech turns speechless in speechless Art -
Of joy infinite:
Love at first sight!
Alight upon Earth
With angelic gesture and a childlike mirth,
The dance of the Nymph in the air
The whisper of the Zephyr:
An enraptured Act!
Make us rich wirh distant dreams
Of an exalted Bliss!
The long stretch of time,
The laments of life -
We care not.
The short epoch-while
That makes us smile
Is infinity's worth.
An architecture of your immortal Art!
The small sojourn
Speaks unknown,
An unending rhyme.
Ever sublime!
The Poetry of the Earth
Is never dead;
Goes on forever for the time ahead
Written on the canvas of Time!
Silence all around,
Makes us spell-bound;
Lying on Solitude's bed,
Eyes visionary, looking ahead -
For the Divine playground
To descend upon Earth;
We wait for eternity -
To make our play-act
An Eternal Birth!
(Bijoylakshmi Das, 3rd Mar 2019)

LOVE
(Bijoylakshmi Das, Puri)
Love,
Ever giving.
Trees love the Earth -
Never expecting
Any return
For showering magnificent
magnanimity.
Sky showers its Bounty
Undemanding.
Love wrapped around everywhere
Amazing!
Love is never Lust,
Not to be bound
by desires of Man,
In his petty limits
Can never be found.
Love is unique,.
Love is profound;
Love is Art.
The Supreme Creator's
Unique Artefact.

IN FREEDOM OF GREATER HEIGHTS
(YOU inspire, I write)
O Clouds of the sky!
Heaven's miraculous magnificent Mirth,
You are pure, pristine and sacrosanct.
Unsullied by the human mind and
Its petty desires of the Earth.

O Journey of the recondite Vast!
Towards Infinity's Bliss forever to last,
The Lone Voyager is alone, all alone
The stretch of Eternity is lost out of my human grasp,
Still lives in Rhapsody's resplendence
At the mortal physique's transcendence.

O Dream of the Distant Dreamland above!
To reach your dreamless state I do always rove,
The Ecstasy afar though forbidden but the Mystery profound,
Alas! I don't fall asleep
I am in your sweet soft clasp.

O Beauty of the soaring heights of the Immortal Sublime!
Your innumerable hues sing the never-ending rhyme -
Of the timeless Symphony that goes on untold in the Supreme Playact.

O Love's Elysian outpour!
Keep your door azar,
Do wing my forlorn moments of vain despair
With unforgettable mirth,
And moon my sleepless hours
With your gleaming Delight living-worth;
Your star-spangled rapture plays hide and seek in the azure Blue,
How I wish I could reach your deathless abode and the summitless
summit forever new!

O Splendid Splendour of the formless Eve,
Mystic, marvel-rapt with the bachhic felicity,
My mind untrammelled tries to fathom the fathomless Epiphany vast,
You sit sovereign enjoying my frolicking past.

O Freedom's frontierless Elegance!
Eternity's celestial everlasting Romance,
The firmament's elevating exuberance,
You sit formless, shapeless in an all-pervading Illimitable Existence. Your Love's lisping lullaby
For the toil-torn fatigued Earth -
May enliven and enlighten her
In your magnanimity's magnificence,
To breathe anew and blossom forth
into the New Angelic Birth.
(Bijoylakshmi Das, Anand Utsav Ashram, Haridwar. 2nd October 2019)

THE DISTANT DREAM
The Earth is a wonderland
A Privy to underworld dream,
Will you dare to scale the heights
To reach the Invisible Realm?

Scares you in dark the scribbles unread
Words on its sheen,
Lustre-clad lies deep
The hidden miracle's mystery within.

Do you long to fly to its azure sky
Spangled around with divine hues,
Day shines bright with the Sun at its helm
Night sparkles with splendorous dews.

The wind wraps the soft sweet murmur
Of the distant mountain stream,
O Man! Be not lost in your stupor
Awaken to its oracular visionary dream.

The indwelling Deity lies unworshipped
In the inmost heart's sacred Shrine,
You have fallen prey to the senses
Of the most tenebrous beastly kind.

The Playact ever goes on around you
Nature plays the magic wand,
Your Soul is given as ransom
To treasures of the fictitious merryland.

The maiden's beauty maddens you
The allurements of her enticing lips,
Your freedom of choice is at stake,
You are Antony in ******* of Cleopatra's kiss.

You are playtool in the hands of the Supreme
Swing to and fro in anguish and ecstasy,
For you know not how to stay uninvolved
Not to get merged into mind-rapt phantasy.

Your body is made of flesh, bone and blood
But you are the Spirit blithe and free,
If only you could make the Tryst with Supreme Soul
In His celestial spree.

You are tiny blossoms in His vernal garden
Open up petals to spread fragrance,
Life on Earth is a sacrifice perpetual
You are only witness to His Mystic Dance.

The Real seems to be far away from you
But He sits silent in your self deep within,
But you dream of Paradise in the vacant naught
Things transient are your only cherished dream.

Go not wild in the life's welter
Seek for the Bliss incarnate thou art,
You are not born to mingle into the mundane mud
Your human goal is to reach the Omnipotent.

You are pure, immaculate, the magnificent Soul,
Dream no more the earthly mire
Make dreamless Infinity, the Vast your goal.
(Bijoylakshmi Das, Anand Utsav Ashram, Haridwar. 27th June 2019)

IN THE ELIXIR OF IMMORTALITY
(Bijoylakshmi Das, 25th Dec 2019)
Let breath become invisible and life come to a cease,
Life is a deathless merry-go-round
In an immortal release.

The morning rays cradle through clouds
In unseen moments of ease,
The Earth is enlivened with wonder and Nature's amazing surprise.

Blossoms open their eyes when the mortal slips into stupor,
All unspoken marvels vibrant in air
In the new uprising's uproar.

Trees laden with timeless treasures
Ever bow down to Earth in glee,
The choicest delicacies for man are offered:
The most magnificent gifts from the magnanimous tree.

The babbling bubbles of water in the brooks
To meet the vast Kingdom of the Sea,
All turbulence in air rising high
Is meant to meet the highest Harmony.

The star-spangled lustre lisps lullaby
In the Moon-rapt rapture of the eve,
The Heaven looks down upon Earth
For Godhead's footprints to live.

Man fails to fathom into the humble heart
Of Creation full of Joy and pure Love,
The utmost care hidden in her inmost humility
With honest appeals to rise above.

The far-fetched Zephyr brings celestial fragrance
From the distant woodland green,
The ether around is wrapped in elixir
To greet man as its nearest kin.

The Brown's mirth blooms at your feet
O Mortal! above your head is the canopy Blue,
The Supreme Felicity keeps open Her door
For you to explore the unrevealed mystery anew.

You are breath in air and air in breath
Come to the grand compromise,
The Creation is a surrealist Vast
You are Consciousness in awakening's rise.

No more limited in boundaries of space
You are limitless in Time's expanse free,
To rise above your petty Self
And to meet your choicest Destiny.

You are the Seer of Enlightenment,
Vast, profound in the robe of man,.
You are the Son of the Supreme Choice
Always united with the One.

Awake, arise to meet the immaculate Vast
Hidden in your Self in disguise,
Your body is a mask for Eternity to everlast
In your wider awakening's rise.
(Bijoylakshmi Das, Puri Odisha)

WOMAN
(Bijoylakshmi Das, 25th Dec 2919)
It is not called
'Fall in Love' , O Man!
With Woman,
Your mother too
In  your playful senses'
spree,
The World is always wrapped around
By Love's unspoken mystery.
Creation's choicest destiny!
Body is only to fetch the Blossoms
Pure, sacred and free,.
Your Lust can never give rise
To this highest harmony.
Your choice is imperative:
Truth or the hellish infernal Abyss,
Woman is created for you
To take you to the land of Bliss.
(Puri, Odisha. 25th Dec 2919)

FANCY'S FLIGHT(29)
I longed to soar higher in the argent air
In the midst of the aureate hue,
Vernal promises ever cherished deep
To reach Heaven's resplendent hue.

The dolorous life of the nether dark
The mud and mire where now I dwell,
It is not the meed of my Soul
Forgotten and cast away life's past tale.

Now I revel in the puissant heights
Mystifying merged in azure wealth,
Gives not entry to mortal longings,
Only at our Ego's transcendence.

The austere eyes of Earth speak no more of Divine Delight,
Nor it cradles any brighter dreams;
Sad, gloomy and ever perplexed
Tied to knots of pettier things.

The sylvan solitude I've made my sojourn
In the exalted Bliss of the blue,
Estraged from thoroughfares of mortal ken
To reach the immaculate golden hue.

I now wade through the thorny beds
To reach the glory of Eternal Truth,
Sits alone and shines the brightest
When earthly riches get lost in Falsehood.

I've dreamt of a distant woodland
Lurks behind the curtain far away,
There I've made the beautiful Palace on Time's sand
To give shelter to my Soul on the way.

My thoughts are plagued with myriad dreams,
My Spirit forever glee,
Freedom at the cost of freedom of the Self
A fortuitous living in the Absolute free.

I've left behind life's silent hush
Followed by turbulence and tide,
I've warred against frivolous thoughts
To ascend the height and cast aside -

Life's gain and multitude pain,
To dive into the Mystery's ocean deep,
Lastly to wake up my ever-loving Divine Kin
Who is in the measureless depth asleep.

To make my Journey a complete whole,
I long to soar higher and higher to reach the Supreme as my Goal.
(Bijoylakshmi Das, Haridwar. 12 June 2019, 12.45 am)