Sunrise Tortoise - Poetry of Lawrence E. Keith

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Paths, 1978 - Second Edition NOW Available.
Collected - New, a collection of all of the poems in one book - Available January 2013.
Paths II, iv
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Banners of prejudice
Maliciously declare
The misdirected depths
To which we have fallen;
Soon foregoing hope
Of peaceful unity.

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Paths, 1978 - Second Edition NOW Available.
Collected - New, a collection of all of the poems in one book - Available January 2013.

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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“From zero stillness”
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From zero stillness
The arrow of your desire
Creates the target
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Paths, 1978 - Second Edition NOW Available.
Collected - New, a collection of all of the poems in one book - Available January 2013.

Paths IA, x

A wedding of diverse forces
   Within the newly evolved Man
   Creates an everlasting fire
   Where the flickering flame began.
Our journey’s return to the source
   Is often difficultly slow;
      Becoming heaven’s instrument
      We soon lose our earthly desire,
      While donning the sacred garment
   Of His ever eternal flow.
Once on the straight and narrow course
   The Man Divine must surely grow
   From celestial embryo.

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Paths, 1978 - Second Edition NOW Available.
Collected - New, a collection of all of the poems in one book - Available January 2013.

Paths, I, ii

                  
We progress beyond thoughts of one
   Inwardly growing hand in hand.
   The sprouting seeds from ego’s hub
   Bring forth trees in desolate sand
To light the path beyond the sun.
   Together we greet the new day
      Outwardly radiant, and purge
      From self the demon Beelzebub.
      Thwarting greed and desires that surge
   We cleanse the soul, halting decay.
With death of selfish pride begun
   We don plumes in brilliant array
   Walking and old, yet newfound way.

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Dream Fragment 19, 1995 - Second Edition NOW Available
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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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Epiphany on the Palouse – F. The Solicitation
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The SPDP membership
Drive by shouting is requesting
Your generous contributions
To begin staff planning meetings
For the next Fall Semester.
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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 II
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Many aeons ago
As the Sun birthed Venus
The molten planet Earth
Began to rapidly cool
As it found residence
In the humid orbit
Older brother Mars
Previously called home
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Collected - New, a collection of all of the poems in one book - Available January 2013.

July 26, 1976

The oracle has been cast,
All prophecies written
And the script lay beside me,
Yet I cannot respond.

The sheep are led to slaughter
With foreknowledge
Of expected end
To supposedly read their lines.
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