{"id":2023,"date":"2007-04-24T18:53:23","date_gmt":"2007-04-24T18:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.srichinmoypoetry.com\/poems-quote\/poems-on-sun\/"},"modified":"2015-02-11T14:04:19","modified_gmt":"2015-02-11T14:04:19","slug":"poems-on-sun","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoypoetry.com\/?page_id=2023","title":{"rendered":"Poems on the Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"width: 640px;\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/old-images\/sunrise.jpg\" alt=\"sunrise\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Poems on the Sun<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The rising sun<br \/>\nBlesses my mind<br \/>\nWith joy.<\/p>\n<p>The setting sun<br \/>\nBlesses my heart<br \/>\nWith peace.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Sri Chinmoy<\/p>\n<p>GOLDEN MYSTIC SUN<\/p>\n<p>The descending fire descends;<br \/>\nThe ascending fire ascends.<br \/>\nThe smile of Light<br \/>\nWatches their tasks divine<br \/>\nFrom across the empty space<br \/>\nWhere the hands of ether<br \/>\nSalute the golden mystic sun.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Sri Chinmoy<\/p>\n<p>THE SUN<\/p>\n<p>The morning sun<br \/>\nGreets your accomplishment-life.<br \/>\nThe evening sun<br \/>\nSalutes your new hunger.<br \/>\nThe inner sun<br \/>\nPerfects your life of deception,<br \/>\nGuides your life of aspiration<br \/>\nAnd<br \/>\nFulfils your life of abnegation<br \/>\nThrough the power of love-devotion.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Sri Chinmoy<\/p>\n<p>THE INNER SUN<\/p>\n<p>The rainbow comes and goes<br \/>\nWith a charming body.<br \/>\nThe outer sun comes and goes<br \/>\nWith a vast body.<br \/>\nThe inner sun stays and stays<br \/>\nWith its boundless<br \/>\nAnd deathless<br \/>\nLove-light.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Sri Chinmoy<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>poems by Sri Chinmoy<\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"..\/..\/short_poem\">Short Poems<\/a>)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (<a href=\"..\/..\/selected_poems\">Selected Poems<\/a>)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?link_code=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;&amp;creative=9325&amp;path=external-search?search-type=ss&amp;keyword=Poetry&amp;index=blended\">Poetry Books<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Array<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":2319,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2023","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoypoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoypoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoypoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoypoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoypoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2023"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoypoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6289,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoypoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2023\/revisions\/6289"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoypoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoypoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}