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  • This Poem can be found in

    METAMORPHOSIS, 1989 - Second Edition NOW Available.

    “Begin the painful deprogramming”

    Begin the painful deprogramming
    To find the Balance
    Necessary to recognize Truth
    
    (more…)

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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.

    Floating on the Lake

    Extinguish distractions
    Lighting your mind,
    Seek the answers
    And food for thought
    You shall find.
    
    Searching your depths
    Surpassing all time
    Peace can be found
    In life’s endless rhyme.
     (more…)

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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.

    Alphabet Parade

    Amber arguments ask answers
    Before blue bereaving berets
    Can change certain colored candles
    Dripping down diners delivering
    Exotic erotic earthly eggrolls
    For foreign film fanatics
    Growing gangrenous garden grapes
    Heavenly helping homemakers
    Identify icy islands (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 VII

    Spinning and wobbling
    Through long days and nights
    Mother Earth shudders
    As her passengers
    Travel the rutted roads
    Of emerging thought
     (more…)

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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.

    “We have been alone too long—“

    From the book 10 to 17 February Afternoons
    We have been alone too long---
    
    Frustrations caused by our inability
         To communicate
              with each other
              And Nature
         Have pushed us
              Over the edge
              Of living
              And feeling life.
    The importance of every
         Seed,
         Leaf,
         Branch,
         Limb,
         And Trunk,
         Of every tree,
         Seem often overlooked;
              For they are as
              Individually different
              As each and every
              One of us.
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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 – E. Education

    While doing research for my new book,
    THE METEORIC RISE
    OF THE THIRD RIGHT SANS GRAVITY,
    Subtitled, “The Magma Farta
    Of the Third Millennium,”
    I had to acknowledge that Rush
    Must be right:  Millions and millions
    Of lemmings can’t all be wrong headed
    Wrong headed.
     (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.

    Nineteen Ninety One, May Day III

                           III
    Alternating between “God Bless America”
    And “The Star Spangled Banner”,
    The marching band leads the parade
    Down Main Street at twelve thirty-five.
    Waving flags and sporting yellow ribbons,
    Almost the entire population participates;
    Leaving a very small audience
    To witness this Declaration
    Of Independence from Freedom
    And the birth of the New World Order.
    
     (more…)

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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.
     (more…)

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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, ix

    Spiritual growth can now commence
       To accelerate in the Light
       Of loving Truth’s immortal beam,
       Showing us the basic birthright
    Received from His Holy Essence
       As your keys to eternity.
          Higher evolution for Man
          Is the undying vision seen
          Whenever we accept the plans
       Drawn for our Real Identity.
    The sacred path of awareness,
       Being the way of purity
       Is life’s capstone to liberty.
    
     (more…)

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