Sunrise Tortoise - Poetry of Lawrence E. Keith

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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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“Insects and birds sing”
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Insects and birds sing
An autumnal opera
On Afton Mountain

Passionate in the moment
With no thought for tomorrow
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FrogSong

My sleeping soul 
Awakened with a smile
When a Frog sang     Memory
Of its unique music
Echoed through the rain
And endless cloudy days
To many years past     Youth
Innocence    The world’s and mine
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Paths II, v
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Hateful utterances
Express our bigotry;
As caught in the whirlwind
Thoughts of mass minds decay
We lose the direction
Of formerly trod ways.

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10 to 17 February Afternoons, 1977 - Second Edition NOW Available.
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“Anticipation in waiting”
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Anticipation
In waiting—
In loving—
In living???
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Birthday
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The gift on your doorstep
Today
Was imagined and created
Yesterday
With every thought
Word and deed
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Through Pisces to Aquarius VIII

       VIII
The door closed to his apartment,
After we shook hands as before;
Yet despite all the small talk shared,
I knew that I had said little
To help him understand my world.
One day I’ll return to visit
This dark city that knows no night,
And attempt to communicate
Thoughts beyond the glass reflections
That surround this skyscraping world.

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Through Pisces to Aquarius V

                V
Ones and zeros.  Zeros and ones.
In proper combinations,
Our loved ones become the graphics
On ever faster computer screens.
All problems can be solved with more
Available information;
Efficiency becomes the key 
To a positive bottom line.
Compute more data.  Garbage in,
More garbage out, up, down, around.
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Paths IA, iv

Whenever the soul’s descent ceases
   The building process can begin
   To revive the inner strength lost
   When mortal darkness grew within.
With hope commences the release 
   From our soul’s rebirthing desire
      And the appeal for earthly gain,
      Which was purchased at any cost
      And whose pleasures reaped only pain.
   Sown seeds of hope help to inspire
Our growing faith for the peace
   On earth that every soul requires
   When climbing paths ever higher.

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