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Yoga / Hindu : Advaita / Non-Dualist
Secular or Eclectic
Contemporary

About Chris McCombs

Timeline (1947 - )

Chris McCombs, Chris McCombs poetry, Yoga / Hindu, Yoga / Hindu poetry, Advaita / Non-Dualist poetry, [TRADITION SUB2] poetry, Secular or Eclectic poetry

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Original Language
English

Passion for the Sacred

Themes
  Freedom
  Garden
  Heart
  Light
  Lover and Beloved

 

Recommended Books

Beloved: Love Poems to the Holy One, by Chris McCombs
Delicious Silence: Poems from the Tiger's Mouth, by Chris McCombs
The Lover's Road: Love Poems, by Chris McCombs

Passion for the Sacred
Will grow wings on your back
And open up the heavens

Why bend your back ?
Why practice your Kriyas ?
Why bang out your mantra ?
If your heart is not open . . . Nothing else matters

If you are not passionate about the sacred
Then . . . ASK . . . pilgrim . . . ask
Get down on your knees
And prey for the door to open

Brothers . . . sisters;
There is a Light
Flooding down from Above
Open your heart . . . and receive

But, sweetheart, if your heart IS open
Then you know
That there is a swan living there
Yearning to fly home . . . to God

Set Her free;
Let Her wings become your own
She will enliven your practices
She will show you the secret ways, no one else knows

She is your Swan
She is your Love
She is your way Home
Her beating heart . . . is the sound of your breath

 

 

 

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