This piece of ground that I have cultivated with much sweat
Yields me a harvest of straw with no ears of golden wheat.
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This piece of ground that I have cultivated with much sweat
Yields me a harvest of straw with no ears of golden wheat.
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No one knows the pain of stone—its dull dream and slow lust.
Yet this is the halfway stage from man to singing dust.
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All lovers are poets: only some have voices and some do not.
They are the Life-tree’s sap thrusting beyond materialism’s rot.
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Since I cannot remember one moment of my immense journey,
Time is an aberrative viewpoint having no reality.
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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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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 […]
Three Talks on Meher Baba was published as a pamphlet 1969, 1971. Three speeches of eloquent homage to Meher Baba. The first given at the Great Darshan in 1969: more or less how to cope with your Master when you realize He is God. Contains the rather startling report that Baba asked Francis to read […]
In this section we focus on this remarkable last collection of Brabazon’s poetry. It was published posthumously in 1988 …
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