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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.

    Nineteen Ninety One, May Day IV

                           IV
    The Storm’s unseen terror has finally abated,
    Yet chill winds still blow around the planet.
    Except prayers to a savior arriving in the clouds
    Or a welcome to beings from distant galaxies,
    Jingoism’s omnipresent message
    Offers little, if any, forum for earthly appeal,
    Condemning unbelievers in peace through strength,
    And peacekeeper weapons of mass destruction
    To peeking at the future from assigned ratholes.
    
     (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.

    “White caps appear between the grey”

    White caps appear between the grey
    Of the free and angry sea,
    As I stand with hands pocket deep
    Tasting the salt spray on my lips.
    
    Wind blown tresses cover my face.
    Whisking them away
    I feel the flame of your presence;
    Turning I meet your ambient eyes
    And again I’m warm with you near.
    
    (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.

    “Today a feeling has possessed me”

    Today a feeling has possessed me
    Of Life and a Love
    For Man and Nature.
    
    A calm understanding grows
    In a body
    Which a disturbed restlessness
    Once called home.
     (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.

    The Mirror

    Leaping     Blindly falling
    Inside darkness     Floating
       Fear consumes
       And finally subsides
    As time slows toward stop
        (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 I

    The Idea of Cosmic Man
    Carried within each soul at birth
    Constantly reminds Consciousness
    Of its duty to generate
    Sufficient luminosity
    To invite the Holy Spirit
    For partnering in conceiving
    The Celestial Embryo
    
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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.

    Driftwood Daydream

    Fifty-seven winters
    I have perched on this coast,
    To watch the tide rise up
    Only to fall again.
    I gawk at you bipeds
    Gawking at me in awe,
    When my outstretched wings touch
    The distant horizon.
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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.

    Children of the Sun IV

    The solar family
    Then welcomed Mercury
    Forcing the relocation
    Of brothers and sisters
    To the former orbits
    Of their older siblings
    
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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.

    Today

    Yellow dandelions
    Dot a sea of green;
    Walking in a field
    As if in a dream.
    
    A bird sings a love song
    So new, so sweet,
    Ushering in spring
    As the sun warms
    Your cold, bare feet.
     (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.

    In the Shaman’s Breath

                     I
    O Shaman Shaman
    With cold penetrating breath
    Having been pushed to the edge
    Will you reveal a chilling death?
     (more…)

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