Poetry Books
"for anyone who wishes to draw near the infinite, to laugh with god, and to love with an open heart, i cannot recommend this book of poems more! these words have been like bright lights for me on my journey inward."
—mark miller, university of edinburgh
LIVING WITH LOVE
"When Love comes knocking on your door why on earth or in heaven or anywhere below or above these places would you hesitate?" Welcoming warmly the third book of Sacred Poetry from Jayananda. Exploring the path of the heart and moving in four chapters on love; the call, the response; the blissful madness to the merging and final union.
As you dip into these writings of rapture and verses of Divine Love you will find there is no time to pack your bags or put your clothes on, for when Love enters our doors, it may be, that some old concepts and furniture will have to be rearranged.
LIGHT OF HEART
108 poetic musings to ignite the senses. An open ended ecstasy on display, a dashing portrayal of the spiritual, a doorway into the mystic.
A guide and companion for all sincere hearts seeking inspiration and meditation. for students and teachers of all wisdom traditions, J.R. Jayananda's light heart is a lighthouse for all upon the path.
SACRED SECRETS
This collection of short poems you hold in your hands is a meditative exploration aimed at piercing the senses sweetly and subtly into a space of expansion, contraction and transcendence of themselves.
Inspired by ancient Tantric literature and delving into philosophies such as Advaita Vedanta, each one is designed as a constant exercise of awareness and presence to free the mind from the stress and anxiety of thought patterns and self-imposed limitations. Please read carefully, allow words to have the power to move you to stillness and wake you into the profound moment that is here with us now.
Garden of the Stars
If you can stretch your imagination, or better yet, your heart to touch a vision of this Great Garden we call home: Suspended in space, surrounded by a deep night that gives room for so many precious lights. Zoomed out, gazing at this scene it seems that all points touch eternity. Yet, here, right here on the place you sit is where your perception is encountering this very moment. It is in this place and this moment that these words came.
I am not always sure why they come or from where they come, they appear in my thoughts or jump into my pen and pour themselves onto the paper. I am not sure I could call it poetry or channeling or wisdom or anything particular. It is just a kind of reception. A communion if you will.
"Jayānanda is a poet who lives in his art. he is a writer doing something that few writers in the world are doing today: connecting with essence, inviting spirit, and speaking through ecstatic verse. The poems in this book are ancient, primordial. they will hold you and bless you on this sacred journey of living."
—brandon thompson,
m.a., psychology faculty, sofia university usa.
author of from the back of a thirsty camel: ecstatic longings
“I plunged into a fathomless sea with the inspired poetry of jayananda, whose words are a creative fountain of sublime imagery and eloquent contemplation, over-flowing from ecstasy to the mundane. With his concise and earthy style, I’m instantly transported to another exotic location within, a place where the nature of my humanness dances with the inexplicable rhythm of my soul. These poems embody a striking blend of ancient wisdom with a contemporary playful vibration, offering answers to our day-to-day struggles as it calls to us to question what is truly under the covers of this life.”
—susan frybort,
author of hope is a traveler & open passages
love is taking off my mask.
Love is taking off my mask;
she is tracing her fingers around the edge of my disguise.
Love is taking off my mask;
she is sliding under the cracks and revealing my shadows.
Love, she is tearing off this mask,
all of the clothes I have worn to the outside world, all of the stories I have ever told.
Love is tearing off this mask, all of the lies I have ever sold, all of the pride I have ever shown.
Love is tearing off this mask,
and into these eyes casts a penetrating gaze as if holy highways were opening from all roads that lead directly into my soul.
Love is tearing off this mask,
and I cannot look away from her gaze.
Love is tearing off this mask, and there is nothing I can do.
Love is tearing off this mask,
and there is nothing left for me to hold on to.
Love is tearing off this mask;
she wants me naked and alone, free of any fear to lay down with her.
Love is tearing off this mask, and she has no care for a final fight.
Love is tearing off this mask;
because she knows what is hidden underneath.
Love is tearing off this mask and she will stop at nothing.
Love is tearing off this mask, and she will stop at nothing until I...
Love is tearing off this mask,
and she will stop at nothing until I be...
Love is tearing off this mask,
and she will stop at nothing until I become.
Love, is tearing off this mask, and she will stop at nothing until I become
Love.