The Absolute

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>This book is a collection of Sri Chinmoy's poems selected from his entire body of poetic work that spans over six decades. He started writing poetry from the age of thirteen and continued writing even in the last year of his life. As a child he was thoroughly trained in the craft of the poetic art. All his early poems were written from within the poetic restraints of meter and rhyme. Only later in his poetic career he wrote in free verse. Speaking of his poetry Sri Chinmoy said Throughout my poetry-journey my poetry-tree has cherished various branches: philosophy prayer religion spirituality my love of Nature's beauty my love of word-making which the English language indulgently allows me to explore and my abiding love concern and hope for this world of ours. Because of the shear originality sincerity honesty and truth in his poems the cadences of Sri Chinmoy's poetry like the poet himself will travel through time for centuries and centuries to come offering hope strength and salvation to many an earnest traveler in his or her journey through life.</span></p>