ROBERT LEADER
HERE RE A FEW MORE OF MY POEMS BASED ON THE CHAPTER HEADINGS IN
THE BASIC TEACHINGS OF THE GREAT PHILOSPHERS
SOUL AND IMMORTALITY
Soul
Is the essence of life
The Thing-in-itself
The Infinite
The Ultimate.
Soul
Is like a handful of salt
Sprinkled into water
It cannot be identified
It cannot be separated
Yet it is there.
Soul
Passes through many forms
Its arrival is birth
Its departure is death
Its continuance is eternal
Seek it
And you find nothing
Deny it
And you are nothing
THE NATURE OF GOD
God
Is the face of the heavens
Blended
With the face in the mirror
God
Is the Life Force
The patterns of eternity
The essence that men call soul
The Buddhist Wheel
The Mystic Way
The Aspects of One
That are particles of the Whole
God
Is the face in the mirror
Blended
With the face in the stars
To simplify
GOD IS
DESTINY
Life is a river
That flows from the stream of birth
To the sea of death.
A man may pause on its sunny banks
to idle, and inhale the wild-sweet flowers
with slow-drawn breath.
Or he can fight its rapids
The tide race of its swirling currents
Kicking his feet through the dragging reeds.
He can explore its many side streams
Diverting from the left bank to the right
But to progress he can only follow.
Where the river leads.
The course is mapped out
Only the duration of the voyage
And the courage with which it is made
Are left to man.
All else is Kismet.