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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 III

    Entering His Heavenly Mansion
    On Ascension’s lifted wings of Light
    We learn of our newly appointed duty
    In the ever eternal fight,
    And manifest the Kingdom’s beauty
    By sowing Man’s Divine Perfection
    With Universal Mind, Will and Love,
    So all may reap the Resurrection
    To our Life’s Immortal plane above.
    
    Continue to Sonnet to a Flyer
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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, v

    Hateful utterances
    Express our bigotry;
    As caught in the whirlwind
    Thoughts of mass minds decay
    We lose the direction
    Of formerly trod ways.
    
     (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.

    July Morning

    Through the pink falling rain
    The illusive catbird
    Clearly calls me by name
    
    Hanging from folded clouds
    Rainbow fragments
    Vanish     Reappear    
    Then lengthen and double     
    Brushstroking
    The reflected mountains
    To leave the lake awash
    In kaleidoscopic color
     (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.

    Birthing I

    The soul seed of Humanity
    Has sprouted reaching for the Light
    Carrying with it the promised
    Transitional shift into
    The OctoVibrational Field
     (more…)

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  • This Poem can be found in

    METAMORPHOSIS, 1989 - Second Edition NOW Available.

    “Other scavengers pluck her tail feathers”

    Other scavengers pluck her tail feathers,
    Limiting the Eagle’s mobility and power.
    One by one the feathers are taken
    Making flight practically impossible.
    
    (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.

    Kalaloch Midnight

    Day and night, mist
    Drizzle and fog.
    The tide comes in,
    The tide goes out.
    Land.  Ocean.  Grey
    Mirror images
    Roaring, boiling
    Raw, chattering
    Minds to Silence.
     (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.

    Ethereal Love

    Wherever I go,
    It remains so. . .
        At my side
        You walk,
        In my mind
        We talk.
     (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.

    Birthing III

    We have returned to the crossroads
    Only to find all signs point Home
    
    Again the choice is ours to make
    Of hoping the Child is stillborn
    Further delaying our journey
    As we spin faster and faster
    On the merry-go-round of life
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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.

    Through Pisces to Aquarius VIII

           VIII
    The door closed to his apartment,
    After we shook hands as before;
    Yet despite all the small talk shared,
    I knew that I had said little
    To help him understand my world.
    One day I’ll return to visit
    This dark city that knows no night,
    And attempt to communicate
    Thoughts beyond the glass reflections
    That surround this skyscraping world.
    
    (more…)

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