I AM LEAF Poetry by Sri Sunkara

[Sri Sunkara Sankacharya]

MY GIFT TO ELAINE AND ALL

“I Am Leaf”

I Am but a Leaf, Floating in a Pond; Moving with the Wave, Ripples make a Sway.

Are you Duck?
Calm above,
Pedal Fast below?
Across Pond ripples Flow.

Are you the Swan,
Swimming in your Lake of Heart;
Always Together,
Never Apart?

Are you Pebble,
Physical Instant Splash?
Calm pond, fell Beyond.

I Am Leaf.
Fallen, Rising with the Tide;
Truth Informed Belief,
Beneath feet of Human kind.

I AM Leaf.
I know not to mind.

I know what man Does Not?
I know from What Tree came I.
I am Leaf,
Fluttering from the sky

Multi Coloured, Multi Odoured,
Feed a Thousand Life Forms;
Canopy to the Earthly Dorm,
Without me, you be not Born.

I AM Leaf.
Returning to the Soil, not to be your Oil.
Awakening, from in the Tree;
Another Birth in Earth awaits Thee.


Eventually, Spiritual Reality, Immortality.

Questionable?
Be no tree, break law, Ruin Eden's Land,
Karma comes, Nature's Pan.

I AM Leaf.
Disturb me not,
Nice, Snug Spiritual Ground,
Survived, Did Not Rot.

Humble Grub,
Feeds on Me,
Harm not the Tree.
Grub becomes the Moth,
Repetitively Nakedness Dons Cloth.

When you Return,
If all Trees do Burn,
There be no Leaf,
Beneath your naked feet.

Only stinging Sand,
By Karmic Law, Demand,
Destiny Fulfill in Future state;
Desecrate Mother Land,
Mortal is the Human Band.

Gods call in Verse,

"It Will Get Worse"

I AM Spirit was in a Tree,
Where on Earth,
An Attachment be?

I am in Spirit,
I am mighty Pan,
Driven earlier from the Land.

I AM Spirit of the Leaf,
Slowly sinking, Sad Bereath.

Where rests Gentle Spirit, on Man's Domain?

Man knows not, man's the Same,
As Grub, a Moth, a Grub Again.

Ten thousand Times,
Spirit enters as Butterfly;
Evolving Colours at & of every dye,
Brilliance, Description does Defy.

I AM no thing,
Nothing,
I Have no name,
Aware Consciousness,
Spiritual Essence.

I AM individualized as Me,
In the Tree;
As Thee.
As grub, moth, Butterfly;
Spirit Spore in You and I.

I AM Leaf,
Rest in me,
For at the end,
All be Feed for Me.

I AM Leaf upon,
Eden's Pond.
I AM Leaf.

Correct Belief,
Spiritual Reality,
Leads to Immortality, Consistency, a Continuity.

I am leaf,
One Veda from the Mighty Tree.

Ageless Wisdom Abides in me.
Truth imbued within Tree,
Await your Destiny.

Stay the axe,
Know the Facts.
When you return,
What will you Burn?

On planes of Ice,
Greed Created, rolled her Dice.

You will Inherit what you sow,
Shame, allow the Tree to grow,
I Am Leaf.

Look within;
I contain your Medicine,
I Am Leaf,
Awake Asleep,
At rest Beneath pond so Deep.

I Am Leaf.
I AM!
I AM that I AM, I AM.
I AM the Presence,
I AM the Essence.

I AM,

I AM within all Man!

Sri Sunkara

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