Sunrise Tortoise - Poetry of Lawrence E. Keith

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Epiphany on the Palouse – C. The Oath

I promise to solemnly wear
The Joe Friday Only the Facts
Badge number seven fourteen,
With mirror, as a reminder
Of when Mussolini Jones read
From the Temple balcony:
Discovering that Poet & Audience
Were not only One,
But the same One.  Death to Poetry!
Became Birth of the Second Law,
And the NonPoetry Movement.
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Autumn
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I sit with autumn
Entering the prairie,
While spring is
Eternally reborn.

A tear momentarily
Distorts perspective
For departure
Looms on the horizon.
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Paths I, ix

Various books of scripture lay
   For our opened eyes to see,
   A testament from all cultures
   Of the world that is to be.
In spectrum’s spiritual array
   Peoples of all colors and creeds
      In silent reverence converse,
      Warning of temptation’s vultures
      That pilot desire’s mortal hearse.
   In scripture Providence’s seed
Is sown to grow and show the way
   For man to quench his thirstful need
   To live life, unshackled and freed.

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“Tomorrow – a new day”
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Tomorrow—a new day
To be dealt with as we will.

A new life’s door is before us,
Yet we open yesterdoor
Without thought
In the habit of our ways.
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Paths IA, vi

In contact with the Holy Choir
   Our Spirit’s intense fire rages
   To help ward off the earthly thoughts
   That have swallowed Man for ages
In the quicksands of mortal mire.
  When locked in Higher Truth’s domain
      We precipitate our soul’s reunion
      With our Spirit, and can pilot
      This newfound self’s total union.
   Becoming a link in His chain
Helps fulfill the Divine Desire
   For Humanity to regain
   The lost oneness of Eden’s reign.

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Paths IA, v

The veils of Truth quickly unfold
   When the pure core of faith within
   Is freed from the smothering walls
   That have kept our Real Self hidden.
Absorbed with Truth’s Light, our foothold
   Presently strengthens us this day
      For any temptations ahead
      That could precipitate a fall
      From the path of awareness we tread.
   With the ascent well underway
The occulted knowledge is told
   To all those immersed in Love’s ray
   To continue their Divine Way.

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Paths IA, vii

At the river today we stand
   In newfound unity of life,
   Prepared to cross its rough waters,
   Leaving behind yin and yang’s strife
For Brahman’s universal hand.
   The initiates come ashore
      Greeted by the forces of Light
      And are given the Love scepter
      After Baptism’s holy right.
   The lessons of eternal splendor
Are taught by Masters from all lands
   To any ready to explore
   The Kingdom through Truth’s open door.

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“Loons softly paddling”
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Loons softly paddling
Under a mostly full moon
Begin mimicking

The boisterous blathering
Of the inebriated
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Paths II, ii
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The differences appear
To dismember oneness,
And soon all worth is Me,
The love of our neighbor
Degenerates to greed
And hateful jealousy.

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