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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 IA, viii

    The deep rooted totality
       Found inside each one’s heart center
       Can now spring forth without effort
       Toward new horizons, and enter
    Lost levels of infinity,
       Previously beyond our dreams.
          With angelical assistance
          As our needed sacred passport,
          All gifts of loving abundance
       Are extended from heaven’s scheme
    To manifest a tapestry
       Woven with threads of thoughts supreme
       Flowing from eternity’s stream.
    
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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 have been alone too long—“

    From the book 10 to 17 February Afternoons
    We have been alone too long---
    
    Frustrations caused by our inability
         To communicate
              with each other
              And Nature
         Have pushed us
              Over the edge
              Of living
              And feeling life.
    The importance of every
         Seed,
         Leaf,
         Branch,
         Limb,
         And Trunk,
         Of every tree,
         Seem often overlooked;
              For they are as
              Individually different
              As each and every
              One of us.
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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 5

    Smartly dressed in red and black
    The ants climb the green stalks
    Slowly circling and circling
    To coax a tightly wrapped bud
    Open for the hidden pink
    Gift of a peony sun
    Rising over the green mountain
    Of my flowering mind
    
    Continue to Dream Fragment 28
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  • This Poem can be found in

    FIVE - New, First Edition NOW Available

    “Fireflies at twilight”

    Fireflies at twilight
    Illumine the Blue Ridge Christ
    As it catches leaves
    
    Blown from the disrobing trees
    On winds of changing season
    
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    FIVE - New, First Edition NOW Available

    “Cherish each moment”

    Cherish each moment
    In the presence of petals
    Unfolding rose red
    
    Love patiently residing
    At the Center of Being
    
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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 I, viii

    Awakening to the morning sun
       We accompany the birds and sing
       Our thankfulness for light of day
       And render this our offering. . .
    Humble gifts of selfless action
       Toward a world in harmony.
          While seeking love and brotherhood
          Along the dimly lighted way
          We cast aside evil for good
       Finding actual Reality.
    The quest is made with devotion
       For the future Humanity
       To evolve its true Identity.
    
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  • This Poem can be found in

    FIVE - New, First Edition NOW Available

    “The tree in the seed”

    The tree in the seed
    Knows its full maturity
    As our Cosmic Self
    
    Knows its Immortality
    In the zero of silence
    
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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 V

                    V
    Ones and zeros.  Zeros and ones.
    In proper combinations,
    Our loved ones become the graphics
    On ever faster computer screens.
    All problems can be solved with more
    Available information;
    Efficiency becomes the key 
    To a positive bottom line.
    Compute more data.  Garbage in,
    More garbage out, up, down, around.
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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 I, i

                     
    I leave the world of thoughts supine!
       To see the twilight of desire
       Mirrored in the changed face I meet
       Helps reduce the heat of passion’s fire
    While dwelling anew beyond time
       In a vision’s view of beauty rare.
          Through infant eyes of clarity
          The virgin worlds of this life, greet
          All past reflections placidly;
       Ascending new heights on the stair,
    Come to rest at the balance line
       Between minds laid openly bare
       And mature fetters of dead despair.
    
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