Poems of Narad

Flower Experience

The precise camellia opening slow her bloom
Petal by petal in loveliness reveals
A hidden delight spun from Deity's loom
To break in man the dull and clouded seals

On eyes that would all Beauty's realms behold
And hearts that yearn to open to new light,
Souls that might both Nature and man enfold
And rise above this narrow constrained sight

To see the world as truly it was made,
A dwelling place of love divinely true
Where one needs neither darkness nor the shade
Protecting ignorance that limits new

Miraculous transcendences to come.
Appearing now at vision's farthest edge
Golden rays suffuse this earthly dome,
Upon the future's bright and shining ridge

Where children with the eyes of God appear
And landscapes long forgotten by the soul,
Of truth that blossoms in a timeless year
The far-receding, ever-nearing goal

Of earth rejoined to streams divine and bliss
Unknown approach through calm of mind,
The spirit rise to suffer Godhead's kiss
And life divine on earth our seeking find.