Sunrise Tortoise - Poetry of Lawrence E. Keith

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.
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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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.
To John Keats
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Creative thought—
That which is progress
Is found in the form of escape, or
Whether it be daydreams or
Balancing on the fence
Between sleep and wake; for it is
Sleep and Poetry.
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METAMORPHOSIS, 1989 - Second Edition NOW Available.
Collected - New, a collection of all of the poems in one book - Available January 2013.

For My Sons

While floating down the River of Life,
Do not allow yourself to be forever drawn
Along with the current of popular thought,
For it is not necessarily Truth.

Occasionally search the eddies and backwaters,
Sifting through the mud, sand and stone.
Rest often, alone, on its sun drenched bank,
Viewing the turbulent flow as one removed.
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FIVE - New, First Edition NOW Available
Collected - New, a collection of all of the poems in one book - Available January 2013.

At Home in Hope

Inside a dream 
       Images and faces
       Melt into Oneness

Sunrise touches the lake
Shadows disappear
The mountains admire
      Their own reflection
While nasturtiums slow dance
      To silent and soft breezes
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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 III

Entering His Heavenly Mansion
On Ascension’s lifted wings of Light
We learn of our newly appointed duty
In the ever eternal fight,
And manifest the Kingdom’s beauty
By sowing Man’s Divine Perfection
With Universal Mind, Will and Love,
So all may reap the Resurrection
To our Life’s Immortal plane above.

Continue to Sonnet to a Flyer

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METAMORPHOSIS, 1989 - Second Edition NOW Available.

“Welcome the Divine Physicians”

Welcome the Divine Physicians,
Freely offering their healing powers
By pouring Gold Rejuvenating Liquid
Into and on this physical vehicle.

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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.
Bird or Dog
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For years we have acted
And been treated like—
Dogs.

We are as free
As the soaring eagle;
As active as a 
Hummingbird,
Yet we wallow in the mud
Of our own making, like
Hogs.
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FIVE - New, First Edition NOW Available
Collected - New, a collection of all of the poems in one book - Available January 2013.

New Year’s Eve – SwanSong

       SwanSong


Out of the grey sky lake
The six joined by two
Appear near the islands
Flying   Not ducks   not geese
Eight     Winging in a line
Tip to wingtip at eye level

Contact with one     Recognition
Then connection with the gliding
White feathering Swans approaching
The shoreline and my doorstep
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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.

May I Say We

There is but little to say—
     The cup from which I drink
     And is me
  	Is emptying. . .
     The last drops evaporate
     While the remaining residue
     Awaits cleansing.
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