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Featured Poems

  • 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.

    FrogSong

    My sleeping soul 
    Awakened with a smile
    When a Frog sang     Memory
    Of its unique music
    Echoed through the rain
    And endless cloudy days
    To many years past     Youth
    Innocence    The world’s and mine
     (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 have passed this way before”

    We have passed this way before
    On our journey to the lake.
    We have seen the rapids,
    The falls and the pools
    Of life,
    Of Man,
    Yet we continue our trek
    For the cycle
    Never ends.
    
    (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.

    Hippo Rock

    Another wave washes 
    The Hippo clean
    Of perching shore birds
    
    Overhead the seasonal wave
    Of migrating ducks and geese
    Struggle to reorganize
    Their disintegrating formations
    In the erratic April breezes
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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
    
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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.

    Untitled April

    Moon and cherry tree
    Together in bloom,
    Full.  Moon and blossoms
    Waning in light winds,
    Fall.  Pieces of white
    Drop, softly caressing
    Sacred ground.  Beneath
     (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.

    Candlelight (For Aldous Huxley)

    Its flame is a unifying force,
    Illuminating the once dark,
    Giving dimension to technopomorphic entities,
    Bringing light and undulating shadows
    To once bleak walls.
    
    It opens your eyes for you see,
    It is your heart and soul,
    For you feel and love
    In your mind’s trance.
    All known senses are keen
    And the unknown seem within grasp.
     (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.

    Prairie Cleansing

    Angers away  Eastward
                 Floating
    Heavy cluttered mind
    Baggage cast aside
    	
    Lakes   mountains   trees
    Gone        Forgotten
    Blind traveling folded
    Into Saskatchewan sun
    Rising over fence lines
    Touching blue domed sky
     (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.

    Of Two

    Windy is the night.
    The storms of passion
    Turned out the lights
    And the love and the dreams
    Of Two.
    
    Grey clouds cover all
    In their world
    As the rains fall,
    Streaming down the cheeks
    Of Two.
    
    (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 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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