When the sun flew his flag from my house-top, the bird of my throat
Soared aloft into the empty morning on its wildest note.
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There will come the day when I shall go forth in love and trust
As a bride to my Lord Myself’s house in the Street of Dust.
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The eternal Beloved, Avatar Meher Baba, over the years I was with him at Meherazad gave me the shape and content of these poems. The form is based on the Persian ghazal, perfected by Hafiz 600 years ago and carried down in the Urdu language to the present day. The content is the relationship between […]
In the end all words turn out to be acts of violence Which are weighed, and forgiven, in beloved God’s silence. Ghazal 125 This concluding couplet from one of the 150 poems which make up In Dust I Sing gives a glimpse of the radical scope of the collection. Not content with the presentation of […]
The Silent Word Published in Australia in 1978, it is an account of the life of Meher Baba up to the beginning of 1929. It starts of in a lofty style and you can hear Francis declaiming his poetry but after a few pages it settles down to no nonsense clear expository prose. The […]
This play was performed in front of Meher Baba in 1956 in Beacon Hill. Francis played the role of the seeker, fittingly enough since the play was about his own seeking. Baba showed delight and made the comment ‘I am pleased with the play. It is hard to understand. I have written it and played […]
Journey With God – A booklet published in 1954 after Francis’ first trip to India. As with all his work it is written not primarily for devotees but to announce a spiritual reality to the wider world. The Introduction tells of true discipleship, the impulse behind the book. The Poem As is evidenced in the […]
Early Poems – Published in 1953, after Proletarians-Transition, but containing some early poetry from the 1940s or even before. This small book is divided into three sections. Singing Plain The mystery and timelessness of the Australian landscape and the attempt to make a human relationship with it. Basically a call to a mutuality of love. […]
The book, a substantial collection of Francis’ poetry, was published in Sydney in 1956. 7 Stars To Morning is divided into a number of sections, beginning with the longish poem entitled “7 Stars to Morning” The seven stars are the Southern Cross and the two ‘pointers’. A great antipodean prophetic utterance. Even non-Australians can be inspired […]