Sunrise Tortoise - Poetry of Lawrence E. Keith

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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.

Driftwood Daydream

Fifty-seven winters
I have perched on this coast,
To watch the tide rise up
Only to fall again.
I gawk at you bipeds
Gawking at me in awe,
When my outstretched wings touch
The distant horizon.
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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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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.
“We have passed this way before”
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We have passed this way before
On our journey to the lake.
We have seen the rapids,
The falls and the pools
Of life,
Of Man,
Yet we continue our trek
For the cycle
Never ends.
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Paths, 1978 - Second Edition NOW Available.
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Paths I, xi

Once beyond the cyclic madness
   We view the pinnacle ahead,
   Giving thanks for not being listed
   Today among the living dead,
Or those falling in their gladness
   To the games of the charlatan.
      Embody the ever eternal flame
      Uncoiling the torn and twisted
      Ways, for which there is only blame.
   Interpret the Divine Musician
Playing chords that brighten sadness
   And be the Good Samaritan
   In which grows the Natural Man.

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The One - New, First Edition available January 2013.
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A Reminder

While watching for signs that confirm
The birthing process has begun
Those who chose to return again
For personal transformation
Soon remember their commitment
To not only be a witness
During the coming transition
But also to be of assistance
To any and all on the Way
Out of the dark   Into the Light

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July Morning

Through the pink falling rain
The illusive catbird
Clearly calls me by name

Hanging from folded clouds
Rainbow fragments
Vanish     Reappear    
Then lengthen and double     
Brushstroking
The reflected mountains
To leave the lake awash
In kaleidoscopic color
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“The chilling vision”

The chilling vision
Shows seasons turned up side down
And peace into war

If the voters authorize
The current coup d’etat

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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.

To Steve Moore

One cannot be held
For his lack of consistency.
We must be free thinkers—
Always progressing.
And if at any point
We feel we know
The absolute Truth for everything,
We must
And have an obligation to
Write it down—
    And jump from a bridge,
    For our worth is done.

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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.

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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