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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 11

    Between blanket and moon
    Exhausted stars vibrate
    On this excited flesh
    Burning over passion
    Fulfilled and expectant
    Sensing an angel’s touch
    From digits descending
    Through heavens reflection
    
    Continue to "July Morning"
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  • This Poem can be found in

    FIVE - New, First Edition NOW Available

    “Insects and birds sing”

    Insects and birds sing
    An autumnal opera
    On Afton Mountain
    
    Passionate in the moment
    With no thought for tomorrow
    
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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 IIA

    Peek from ego’s cyclic wheel
    To glimpse the eternal Light,
    Which eclipses mortal appeal
    And pleasure’s fleeting delight.
    Leaving blind delusions behind
    The treasure of life we’ll find
    In lasting gifts of sight divine.
    
     (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.

    The Mirror

    Leaping     Blindly falling
    Inside darkness     Floating
       Fear consumes
       And finally subsides
    As time slows toward stop
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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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  • 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 I

    Currently residing
    Between her two siblings
    Venus and Mars
    The blue jeweled planet
    On whose surface we ride
    Revolves around its parent
    Through the galactic night
    
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  • This Poem can be found in

    METAMORPHOSIS, 1989 - Second Edition NOW Available.
    Collected - New, a collection of all of the poems in one book - Available January 2013.

    For My Sons

    While floating down the River of Life,
    Do not allow yourself to be forever drawn
    Along with the current of popular thought,
    For it is not necessarily Truth.
    
    Occasionally search the eddies and backwaters,
    Sifting through the mud, sand and stone.
    Rest often, alone, on its sun drenched bank,
    Viewing the turbulent flow as one removed.
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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.

    July 26, 1976

    The oracle has been cast,
    All prophecies written
    And the script lay beside me,
    Yet I cannot respond.
    
    The sheep are led to slaughter
    With foreknowledge
    Of expected end
    To supposedly read their lines.
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  • This Poem can be found in

    FIVE - New, First Edition NOW Available

    “From Monticello”

    From Monticello
    Is heard Jefferson singing
    His song of Freedom
    
    Calling for revolution
    By expanding Consciousness
    
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