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  • This Poem can be found in

    FIVE - New, First Edition NOW Available

    “From zero stillness”

    From zero stillness
    The arrow of your desire
    Creates the target
    
    (more…)

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  • This Poem can be found in

    The One - New, First Edition available January 2013.
    Collected - New, a collection of all of the poems in one book - Available January 2013.

    Children of the Sun V

    Moving ever further
    From the place of her birth
    The mature planet Earth
    Soon found herself at home
    In life’s generating zone
     (more…)

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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.

    Unsung May

    Inside the morning rain
    The summer heat of May
    Departs on the wind
    Whipped white capped lake.  Hail
    
    Dancing to thunder, falls
    Through the sky cracking
    Lightning striking afternoon
    To scatter fragile petals
    Over white grass.  Green stems
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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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    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 – EvenSong

           EvenSong
    
    Celebration     Contemplation
    Transitions flame bonfire
    Visions     pastPresentfuture
    
    Overhead   South and West converge
    Folding clouds at right angles
    To screen the moon     Light
    Increases shadows depth
    Clarity penetrates midnight
    Calmly birthing     Unease
           ---December 31, 1995
    
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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.

    Foresight

    Your dreams
    Will come true
    When you—
    Dream them.
    
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  • This Poem can be found in

    The One - New, First Edition available January 2013.
    Collected - New, a collection of all of the poems in one book - Available January 2013.

    Children of the Sun XIV

    With the expected birth
    Into the solar family
    Of another child
    Siblings will again shift
    To drift further away
    From the place of their birth
    And into the comfort
    Of newly found orbits
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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 IA, x

    A wedding of diverse forces
       Within the newly evolved Man
       Creates an everlasting fire
       Where the flickering flame began.
    Our journey’s return to the source
       Is often difficultly slow;
          Becoming heaven’s instrument
          We soon lose our earthly desire,
          While donning the sacred garment
       Of His ever eternal flow.
    Once on the straight and narrow course
       The Man Divine must surely grow
       From celestial embryo.
    
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  • This Poem can be found in

    The One - New, First Edition available January 2013.
    Collected - New, a collection of all of the poems in one book - Available January 2013.

    From the Center of Being I

    Centering each and every thing
    From winging bird or grain of sand
    To the largest galactic sun
    Is an invisible point of Light
    Connecting and communicating
    With every other point of Light
    Throughout the entire universe
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