Sri Chinmoy's Recent Poetry

THE RESONANCE OF WORD-MUSIC
IN SRI CHINMOY’S
RECENT POETRY

Dr. Vidagdha Bennett
February 7th, 2006

INTRODUCTION

Despite the unfettered modernism of his recent poems, and also his marked preference for rapid and spontaneous oral composition, Sri Chinmoy is, at heart, a poet who loves to rhyme.

In early autumn 2005, he was inspired to write a rhyming poem for each day of the calendar year. These poems emerged as prayers, aphorisms, philosophical questions, realisations and miniature songs. With 154 poems printed by mid-November 2005, under the title of My God-Hunger-Cry, Sri Chinmoy is almost halfway through his project.

I believe that this new series reveals a master poet at work, transforming formal versification into a natural and contemporary framework for timeless, universal utterances. Within the bounds of a single rhymed couplet or quatrain, made fluid with metrical grace, Sri Chinmoy uniquely fulfils our longings for completion, both literary and spiritual.

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