Thou Hast a Sonnet’s Full Throat

Image: Paramahansa Yogananda – Songs of the Soul

Thou Hast a Sonnet’s Full Throat

inspired by Paramahansa Yogananda’s “Consecration”

A sonnet’s full throat hast Thou, my Guru,
Placed in Thy opening lay of “Consecration”—
In Thy masterful Songs of the Soul—
Where shower meets flower as grown follows born
Where the loneliness of seeking
Finds the seeker found.

A second sestet bursts into a humble offering—
Thou spreadest before the All-Seeing Divine
Thy sheaves of leaves—the best flowers
From Thy garden of verse.
Thy flowers’ scent exudes, soul-inspired.
Thy riming power leaves the petals in tact.

Would that I may follow Thy lead,
To that Cosmic Home in verse and in deed.