Sri Chinmoy Poetry Festival
in a garden-like meditative settingThe Sri Chinmoy Poetry Festival is a real festival traditionally held every summer in New York City. The first Festival was held in 2009. The 2020 focus is Voices of Hope shared here since we had to forego meeting together this summer. The Festival’s focus is the spiritual poetry of the great “student of peace” for which it is named but it encompasses a broader exploration of life through the arts. Read More

Praise for Sri Chinmoy’s Poetry
Poems by Sri Chinmoy
I shall collect flower-poems
From the garden of Light.
Therefore, I am flying in the sky
With the southern wind.
I have no one with me.
All alone, endlessly I am flying,
And I am all lost in the beauty of teaming clouds.
~ Sri Chinmoy
Your Favorite Poems
Here is a gathering of favorite poems submitted by our readers.
“Let’s remake the world with words”
Let’s remake the world with words. Let’s,As Wordsworth said, remove“The dust of custom” so thingsShine again, each object arrayedIn its robe of original light. And then we’ll see the worldAs if for the first time,As once we gazed at the belovedWho was gazing at us.-Gregory Orr, Concerning the Book That Is the Body of the Beloved, Copper Canyon Press, 2005. submitted by Sharani Robins, East Providence, RI, USA
Not frivolously, nor
To hide from what we fear,
But with a purpose. keep reading this poem