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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.

    From the Center of Being I

    Centering each and every thing
    From winging bird or grain of sand
    To the largest galactic sun
    Is an invisible point of Light
    Connecting and communicating
    With every other point of Light
    Throughout the entire universe
     (more…)

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  • This Poem can be found in

    METAMORPHOSIS, 1989 - Second Edition NOW Available.
    Collected - New, a collection of all of the poems in one book - Available January 2013.

    Sandwich Existence

    After wearily ascending the lighted stair,
    An unconscious slamming of the opened gate
    Awakens the dogs to nervously bark
    At their master’s alien presence;
    Babbling patronizingly,
    While already warm and secure
    Mentally, behind the closed door.
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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.

    “Once Again”

    Once again;
            Back to the hub,
            Back to the center.
    
    Drop all pretense,
    Remove those masks.
    
    Take a look in the mirror;
            Honestly,
            Nakedly.
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  • This Poem can be found in

    METAMORPHOSIS, 1989 - Second Edition NOW Available.

    “Lay your pseudo self”

    Lay your pseudo self       
    On the pyre of worldly ambition,
    Releasing it into the illusory world
    Of its own creation,
    And become consumed 
    In the Phoenix Flame
    Of your True Being;
    Allowing its Reality to Become.
    
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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 VII

               VII
    Techutopia promises
    Love that can only emanate
    From the mind and not from the soul.
    This love of things or position
    Is pornography from the dead
    To a dying humanity.
    The new scriptural messages,
    Read from the pulpits of the church
    Of our perpetual progress,
    Are broadcast through the media
    All day and night, all night and day.
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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

    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.
    
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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, vii

    The cherished balance eludes us
       As the scales tip from right to left;
       Again we are disoriented,
       Vacillation leaving us bereft.
    This chosen path of exodus
       From a life of material gain
          Is often hazardously steep;
          Methodically it must be tread
          To avoid the bottomless deep.
       With balance finally regained
    We gaze at the Light around us,
       And succumbing to total strain
       Sleepily greet the warm falling rain.
    
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