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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.

    Nineteen Ninety One, May Day II

                      II
    In agitated exhaustion, we come
    Seeking Ocean’s restless rejuvenation.
    During the wailing Pacific gales
    Undertows and high, ripping tides
    Reclaim real estate by the acre
    In an attempt to provide safe haven
    For some of this continent under siege.
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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.

    Amanita Cloud

    For centuries the Sacred Mushroom Ritual
    Has been a vehicle for reaching Eternity.
    We need not risk physical ingestion,
    And the possible effects of its deadly poison,
    If we symbolically see this visual keyhole
    As showing us the way to that other world
    Far beyond our day to day comprehension.
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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 VI

                   VI
    He continued with the story
    Of his latest business venture,
    At times interspersed with phone calls
    Or news of family and friends.
    
    I wanted to mention the awe
    Of first seeing the northern lights
    And their frenzied undulations;
    At times covering the night sky
    With many wild, breathing colors;
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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.

    “Another day”

    Another day    
    Today
    As bright and fresh
    As any day ever.
    
    Today
    Is upon
    Us all.
    
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  • This Poem can be found in

    FIVE - New, First Edition NOW Available

    “Insects and birds sing”

    Insects and birds sing
    An autumnal opera
    On Afton Mountain
    
    Passionate in the moment
    With no thought for tomorrow
    
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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

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

    Self Portrait

    Somehow caught in the sands of time,
    Consonants and vowels still commingle
    To slowly waltz across the page.
    In fleeting glimpses of the Eternal,
    This child prodigy of plus forty
    Wanders the deserts day and night
    Endlessly scratching black on white
    In full dress rehearsal of Life.
    
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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.

    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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  • 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.

    Laine

    Tis your rhyme
    That transcends all time.
    Tis my mind
    To you I send this time.
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