NOTE: If you read and like this book please consider posting a review below. Customer reviews are effective and very much appreciated. Thank You. Mystical Poetry Spiritual Poetry Nature Poetry Inspirational Poetry "The Mystical Dance" is a book of one hundred and eight mystical, nature, and spiritual poems inspired by Rumi, Tagore, Paramananda, Hafiz, Thoreau and the great world spiritual teachings. SAMPLE - PLEASE NOTE: The "Sample" link above is not long enough to include any poems so several poems from the book are included below: (click the "Show More" link) ************************************** The Improvisation The sun returned this morning from its journey Around this blue celestial sphere Bathing the sky in a rosy glow Clouds are floating lazily like flamingo feathers in a pool of golden light Life is singing all around The Divine improvisation that never stops for applause The tapestry of mountain stream and skylark melody Woven only to adorn the Silence from which it springs ************************************** Mountain Stream Laughing The sound of a mountain stream laughing in the canyon Is the joyful song of yielding and the free-flow of surrender Spontaneous streaming of a water song rings like liquid wind-chimes Pouring freely from the well of Nature’s singing heart ************************************** Thimble Heart There is no room in here It’s so full of me there is no room for You Help me to pour myself out through the window of this poem So You Who can pour the ocean into a thimble May pour Your love into my heart ************************************** Liquid Mirror The surface of the water became still Like a liquid mirror And I saw the reflection of a wondrous world A world I had never seen A world I live in every day but had never seen Until the water became still ************************************** Kiss The Starry Night I throw open my arms to the sky My whole being kisses the starry night The lantern of the moon hangs like a pearl In the ink black stillness of the night ocean above Pale ashen moonlight falls like silk on barren trees All these words Just language dancing with creation Words and language are only candles telling tales of the Sun ************************************** Copyright 2011 Gordon Burnham
Gordon Burnham was born in the beautiful town of Traverse City, Michigan
and was raised in Grand Rapids, surrounded by rolling hills, lakes and the
Grand River. Nature, beauty and music were the things that drew his soul
inward and onward. Interest in music, art, writing, nature and spirituality
developed early and became his life's passions. He began playing music,
composing and writing as a boy and later majored in psychology and
minored in music at Western Michigan University.
From then on it was all music, spirituality and writing, playing his music
in coffeehouses and colleges from California to Boston and finally making
a home on the south shore of Boston, in an idyllic harbor town called Cohasset.
Gordon also found his spiritual home there, in Cohasset, MA. at the
Vedanta Centre, under the spiritual leadership of Srimata Gayatri Devi.
He was appointed to the position of Music Director, and wrote much of the
ashram's music, coordinating music for all activities, leading the music, and
recording and publishing music for the center.
Joan Borysenko and her former husband Miroslav Borysenko came to
know and love Gordon's music and lyrics and felt they should be brought
to a larger audience, so they produced and promoted his first solo album,
"Rhythm of Life". He began providing music for workshops from Boston to
Seattle with Joan, and was soon leading his own workshops and giving
concerts in major New Age and spiritual centers throughout the US.
Gordon also taught Music Therapy at Northeastern University, Boston, MA.,
and brought much of this knowledge and experience into his workshops on
"Healing and Spiritual Consciousness Through Music".
His love of nature, spirituality, music and writing gradually evolved
into writing mystical and nature poetry and essays on the spiritual path.
Gordon is currently based in La Crescenta, CA, where he continues to
support the work of the Vedanta Centre and Ananda Ashrama.
