Sunrise Tortoise - Poetry of Lawrence E. Keith

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“Nasturtiums slow dance”

Nasturtiums slow dance
In the soft summer breezes
To Nature’s rhythms

Pulsing through the Milky Way
And stones on the garden path

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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.
“Is it valid to”
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Is it valid to 
Orderly push
Ones mind—
Milking it
Expanding it
Thinking. . . .
Being?
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“I Am That I Am”
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I Am That I Am
Preceded the Fall of Man
And will always Be

The fulcrum of existence
To project identity
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METAMORPHOSIS, 1989 - Second Edition NOW Available.
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Metamorphosis

Halted during its slow journey to the other side,
A common turtle lay clumsily split in two.
His natural armor offered little protection
From Man’s four-wheel driven nightmare,
And he became just another unlisted casualty.

As the surging ocean’s unrelenting roar
Announces the arrival of land’s end,
A hummingbird prepares for birthing
By hurriedly picking dandelion seeds
To further warm her soon to be filled nest.
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Dream Fragment 19, 1995 - Second Edition NOW Available
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Dream Fragment 33

He disengaged hands
Feet from cross and nails
Easing pain down to the floor
Stumbling stretching walking
Through chapel doors down steps
Merging with the swirling snow
And scurrying Christmas crowd
Shopping up down Main Street

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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.
“Mislaid Afterthoughts”
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Mislaid Afterthoughts
Bring new life
To the afternoon.
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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 I

                  I
We began by innocently
Throwing stones and brandishing clubs.
Arrows, spears and slings for the hunt
Soon become swords and catapults;
Armor, moats and castles surround
A fearfully huddled people
That quickly develop methods
To raise levels of violence.
Revenge.  Many lives for a life
Accelerates the race toward death.
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Dream Fragment 19, 1995 - Second Edition NOW Available
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In Praise of Living

I have awaited the moment
When you honestly thought of Living
And not dying before your time.
That this idea bloomed in winter
With no trace of snow on the ground,
Or small patches of blue sky seen
Through the purgatorial grey,
Is the bold action possible
Only when days become windows.
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Immaculate Conception I

The Idea of Cosmic Man
Carried within each soul at birth
Constantly reminds Consciousness
Of its duty to generate
Sufficient luminosity
To invite the Holy Spirit
For partnering in conceiving
The Celestial Embryo

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