Poetry Compilation Offering - ASA and our Own.
ASA - Submitted several weeks, months, ago!! Hare Krsna.
Hare Krsna, Guru Maharaj,
Please accept our most humble obeisances! All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
We are very excited to have your darshan at the morning program in Houston on your Vyasapuja. It is so nice to chant with you Guru Maharaj. You have and continue to be our reason to be inspired in Krsna Consciousness. Currently we are watching the Vyasa Puja on YouTube.
We wanted to present a small offering. It is a compilation of your poetry and illustrated manuscripts. There are 30 posts from the last four months on the blog: https://poetry-anthology-by-hp-swami.tumblr.com/ . If we have your blessings, we hope to keep looking through twitter and the blog from the last ten years to create an anthology of your poetry.
HpS/ASA - Amazing! ! ! AgtSP!!!!!! . . . . We looked at the first one third. It seems to be like Moon Beams from a Larger Madness.
Little birds and bees that ornament the forest trees of Srila Prabhupada's cogent symphony.
Read a few a day:\?
We asked Srinath prabhu a few months ago if it was possible to print an anthology that could be up to 300 to 400 pages. We are thinking that it may be that long Gurudev because of how prolific your writing has been through the years and how important it is to preserve your writing that means so much to your disciples and everyone in the Vaishnava community who appreciate your art. Srinath said it is possible to publish this many pages and is happy to help with the process. It would be an irreplaceable gift to the devotees and disciples, as well as every human and of course non-human that could hear near and far.
ASA - Kindle? Printable format like Word and PDF that people can publish as they like.
We have a lot of questions about how you would like to organize it Gurudev. We would also like to find other Vaishnava poets in the ISKCON movement or beyond to help with a preface.
We can ask Radhika Raman Prabhu and others about possibilities. Also in blog form we could make changes and edits and can send the login info to you also to make edits. We can send this in a separate message.
ASA - You can see that even though we wanted very, very much to answer your post, looking at it and others often, we just do not have the strength.
After months in Houston we are getting some kind of working schedule.
Not planning on changing our Camp site before August 15th, Janmastami.
How is the Army!
Spaniards, Cowboy American Kids, Missy's, Potato People?
We also have questions for publicizing such as: Should we have just one poem per page or is two ok if it is under 8 lines? What kind of Titles for each poem would you like? For now we put Date above the poems and if there were more than one publication the time was also included.
We also noticed how special the picture icons are with the accompanying poems. When we transferred from twitter on the computer to word the pictures became very big. If we copied from the phone though they stayed the same. Would you like the pictures with the poems Gurudev? We included some with and some without. We are curious if emojis could be published.
On another note, we felt like Idaho city home got transformed being able to honor you Gurudev for Vyasapuja. We made a veggie pot pie dish and made holiday cookies. Also you requested from my husband pictures. Jahnavi wanted to draw the Syamataka Jewel and was very happy to hear that it was a pastime you are also fond of. Sita wanted to draw Radha Krsna "getting married" and said she really wanted to see them get married. She said it was not in the Krsna book but said it did happen in the forest and wanted to share it with you.
Here is a poem:
Dear Guru Maharaj
The snow falls
The suffering
the hurt continues
like a Robert Frost poem
people are getting lost in thinking...
The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
We know another road less taken
Where Krsna plays
Gets lost in the woods
with his best friend
holding each other through the storm
and frolicking thereafter
All of the devotees wanted to believe Krsna is theirs only
And when the trees fell down and demigods came up
the rumors spread
Krsna is extra Ordinarily special
Still
they couldn't stop believing that Krsna is our family member, best well wisher
Our life force now and forever
Guru Maharaj we want the same
You gave us a glimpse of
Being our utmost friend, well wisher
We sometimes forget like Krsna's friends and family
Your position
Because we are so happy to be with you
And get this attention we never feel worthy of
From Krsna's special friend
Its other worldly
and we never want it to end
Missing your association means we miss
going to the watery source
We want to draw/leap/forget what is painful with you
and just serve
You gave us a family
Your oasis source of Srila Prabhupada
The spiritual world that's opened up to us like a tent in the middle of Kansas
escorted us to join the circus of our childhood dreams
Thankyou 🙏
You said a few years ago
With a jovial laugh
"Your old enough now to be a grandma"
We are sad to see jealousy, remorse, sadness, lamentation
Not leave us even with the gravity of age
What an exhausted sigh and opening monkey warrior
we get steadfastness to Srila Prabhupada's process
every prose or excerpt is a passage
on how to step into the spiritual world
where every step is a dance
seamless, easy, simple and natural
to just slow...... down
with japa; studying service and gandarva prance
Make it our main skip line and Dandavats
At your and Srila Prabupada's lotus feet
Every waking and evening prayer
We beg to transform dry limerence and notoriety
into being a servant of the ants in the temple or the worm tiller of the rosemary outside
who serves the herbs that find its way to Krsna's plate
In the woods we wait 🙏
We miss you Gurudev. Please let us know when we can see you again. We could take turns going to Houston. Happy Vyasa Puja!
Your servant,
Kamagayatri dd, Murari, Aja, Jahnavi, Sita and Arjun
HpS - Wow! As soon as we ask a question you answer it.
I hope our Blog Posts, Twittttttter and no anveSaka have been able to keep you informed about us.
Poetry is great.
You are putting something very, very substantial on the plate!!!
Don't wait.
Don't hesitate.
Distribute in bite size pieces wherever you go, whomever you meet.
Those who will take to distribute also, to whomever they meet, dump a bagful at there feet.
