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In some poems, we find that the interrelation of the seeker and the bird is implied rather than overtly stated through wonderful word pictures which encourage us to compose the image of the bird in our own mind:

ECSTASY'S UNPLUMBED SKIES

If you have an aspiration-flight,
In the long run
You are bound to reach
Ecstasy's unplumbed skies. [12]

Conversely, when aspiration fails, the poet portrays its loss in terms of a lame or injured bird whose flight is curtailed:

A BROKEN WING

Aspiration-cry I have totally lost.
And now
Each fleeting breath of mine
Is a broken wing
In destruction-night. [13]

One further image that springs from Sri Chinmoy's use of the bird as symbol is the nest. By extension, he transforms this protected shelter of maternal warmth into his eternal Home in God:

THY LOVE IS MY NEST

0, Thy Love is my nest,
Thy Smile is my rest,
Thy Grace is my goal. [14]

Even as the bird returns to the nest, so the seeker finds his ultimate haven in God's Love, His Smile and His Grace. Prefaced by the rhapsodic "0," which is suspended outside the triple affirmation of the poem, this testament of faith acquires a subtle, lyrical edge. Statement is elevated into song. The most striking feature of this song is its perfection in every part.