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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.

    Immaculate Conception V

    As motion finally finds rest
    The Golden Spheres of Liquid Light
    Begin weaving a chrysalis
    To encase the Child and its host
    In a protective envelope
    Creating an environment
    For the expanding Consciousness
    To attain OctoAwareness
    Being in perfect Harmony
    With the Universal Heartbeat
    Of the emerging Cosmic Age
    
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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.

    Epiphany on the Palouse – C. The Oath

    I promise to solemnly wear
    The Joe Friday Only the Facts
    Badge number seven fourteen,
    With mirror, as a reminder
    Of when Mussolini Jones read
    From the Temple balcony:
    Discovering that Poet & Audience
    Were not only One,
    But the same One.  Death to Poetry!
    Became Birth of the Second Law,
    And the NonPoetry Movement.
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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 III

                 III
    The seeds of empty promises
    Soon sprout a shallow happiness
    That flowers as despairing rage
    In those benefiting the least
    From material convenience.
    Cities violently erupt,
    Becoming harbingers of fear
    That quickly spread throughout the land.
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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.

    For Brenda

           Poetry
    Is the fragrance
    	Of each moment
           Inhaled
    	During each life
           Exhaled
    	Toward a future
           Envisioned
    	Now
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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.

    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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  • 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.

    Dream Fragment 33

    He disengaged hands
    Feet from cross and nails
    Easing pain down to the floor
    Stumbling stretching walking
    Through chapel doors down steps
    Merging with the swirling snow
    And scurrying Christmas crowd
    Shopping up down Main Street
    
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  • This Poem can be found in

    METAMORPHOSIS, 1989 - Second Edition NOW Available.

    “When the bright lights lost their luster

    When the bright lights lost their luster,
    The bittersweet carrot disappeared,
    And I began the task of looking,
    In hopes of one day Seeing.
    
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  • This Poem can be found in

    Paths, 1978 - Second Edition NOW Available.
    Collected - New, a collection of all of the poems in one book - Available January 2013.

    Paths IA, iii

    Become one with God in silence
       And the Light will forever shine
       To illumine each darkened day
       With knowledge of our gifts divine.
    When immersed in His eternal presence
      The Life Immortal grows within,
          Opening formerly locked doors
          So as to view heaven’s stairway
          To existence forevermore.
       Love of God is the origin
    Which sparks the needed diligence
       To find centered in His doctrine
       The divine flame which is our twin.
    
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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.

    Bird or Dog

    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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