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  • This Poem can be found in

    FIVE - New, First Edition NOW Available
    Collected - New, a collection of all of the poems in one book - Available January 2013.

    Pear Blossoms

    A chickadee messenger warns
    Of grosbeaks waiting by the feeder
    In a hypothermic daze.
    Late April.  Wind, rain, sleet and hail
    Hasten the daffodils demise.
    Now, tulips are reluctant,
    Oriental poppies terrified.
    
    With seed and wood in short supply
    I try to calculate the number
    Of times the hourglass must be turned
    Before the pear blossoms appear.
    
    Continue to "Poppies" (more…)

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  • This Poem can be found in

    10 to 17 February Afternoons, 1977 - Second Edition NOW Available.
    Collected - New, a collection of all of the poems in one book - Available January 2013.

    “We become strangers to each other”

    We become strangers to each other
    And also to our selves.
    Our paths have strayed
    Although we are together.
    Friendly bonds grow
    To become what they will.
    A painful re-acquaintance is undertaken,
    For we stand at the crossroads—
    Of love?
    
    (more…)

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  • This Poem can be found in

    FIVE - New, First Edition NOW Available
    Collected - New, a collection of all of the poems in one book - Available January 2013.

    Greetings, My Friend

         Today
    This hand
    Reached out
    
    You withdrew
    Unwilling
    To stretch your hand
    Across the chasm
    Of time and change
    
         Widening
     (more…)

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  • This Poem can be found in

    Paths, 1978 - Second Edition NOW Available.
    Collected - New, a collection of all of the poems in one book - Available January 2013.

    For Nani

    Don’t postpone living
       Until another day,
    For even darkness of night
       Can’t keep the dawn away.
     (more…)

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  • This Poem can be found in

    Paths, 1978 - Second Edition NOW Available.
    Collected - New, a collection of all of the poems in one book - Available January 2013.

    Paths II, vi

    Revolution can be
    The destructive process
    Which will begin ending
    Darkness’ fearful night
    And show life’s direction
    Toward cherished paths of Light.
    
     (more…)

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  • This Poem can be found in

    The One - New, First Edition available January 2013.
    Collected - New, a collection of all of the poems in one book - Available January 2013.

    Immaculate Conception III

    Undivided    Unconditioned
    Incorruptible Light pulses
    Through a possible Future Age
    Into the timelessness of Now
    To nourish the Child and its host
    As they both rapidly mature
    Through transformational stages
    To ultimately coexist
    In the Oneness of Cosmic Man
    
     (more…)

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  • This Poem can be found in

    The One - New, First Edition available January 2013.
    Collected - New, a collection of all of the poems in one book - Available January 2013.

    From the Center of Being II

    When the inner Voice of Conscience
    Began questioning Man’s actions
    It redirected his attention
    To the dimensionless center
    Of his expanding consciousness
     (more…)

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  • This Poem can be found in

    The One - New, First Edition available January 2013.
    Collected - New, a collection of all of the poems in one book - Available January 2013.

    The Fire of Desire

    When finally in possession
    Of the Fire and intense Desire
    To Know who and what you are
    And have Forever been
    Then your innermost Being
    And its empty spaces
    Can begin to be filled
    To overflowing
    With the Light that is
    The only Reality
    That IS
    
    (more…)

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  • This Poem can be found in

    Dream Fragment 19, 1995 - Second Edition NOW Available
    Collected - New, a collection of all of the poems in one book - Available January 2013.

    Dream Fragment 11

    Between blanket and moon
    Exhausted stars vibrate
    On this excited flesh
    Burning over passion
    Fulfilled and expectant
    Sensing an angel’s touch
    From digits descending
    Through heavens reflection
    
    Continue to "July Morning"
    (more…)

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