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  • This Poem can be found in

    METAMORPHOSIS, 1989 - Second Edition NOW Available.

    “We must never forsake our dreams”

    We must never forsake our Dreams
    For they will find Reality
    The moment we begin living
    In Harmony with Destiny.
    
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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.

    Faces of the City

    Blankly walking the shadowed streets
    Where this world and that too often meet,
    A feeling of Truth’s impassioned rage
    Suddenly jolts and jars the bars
    Surrounding the serenely caged.
    
    Cracked pavement lines the faces
    Groping for any reality
    Which produces ways to end
    These sleepless nights and wakeful days.
    
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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, vii

    At the river today we stand
       In newfound unity of life,
       Prepared to cross its rough waters,
       Leaving behind yin and yang’s strife
    For Brahman’s universal hand.
       The initiates come ashore
          Greeted by the forces of Light
          And are given the Love scepter
          After Baptism’s holy right.
       The lessons of eternal splendor
    Are taught by Masters from all lands
       To any ready to explore
       The Kingdom through Truth’s open door.
    
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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 I, vii

    The cherished balance eludes us
       As the scales tip from right to left;
       Again we are disoriented,
       Vacillation leaving us bereft.
    This chosen path of exodus
       From a life of material gain
          Is often hazardously steep;
          Methodically it must be tread
          To avoid the bottomless deep.
       With balance finally regained
    We gaze at the Light around us,
       And succumbing to total strain
       Sleepily greet the warm falling rain.
    
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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 I, xi

    Once beyond the cyclic madness
       We view the pinnacle ahead,
       Giving thanks for not being listed
       Today among the living dead,
    Or those falling in their gladness
       To the games of the charlatan.
          Embody the ever eternal flame
          Uncoiling the torn and twisted
          Ways, for which there is only blame.
       Interpret the Divine Musician
    Playing chords that brighten sadness
       And be the Good Samaritan
       In which grows the Natural Man.
    
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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.

    The Prophetic Wind

    Children of the Barbarian:
    Your days may seem without number,
    But can be counted nonetheless.
    By worshipping gods of progress
    Your essence has been forsaken.
    When this Truth is comprehended
    The sudden, outraged reaction
    Will not halt the polluted flow
    Of your futureless future dream.
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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.

    Sonnet to a Flyer

    As we slowly leave the earth to ascend
    Through clouds of our vision, toward infinity,
    The heavens become our companion and friend.
    Vast horizons unfold for eyes to see;
    And while all of nature seems within reach,
    Man’s miniature world begins to be dwarfed
    By Creation’s splendor beyond all speech.
    Behind us the sun sinks in shades of red;
    Twilight brings the last quarter moon in view,
    Darkness descends, stars winking into sight,
    The Milky Way lightens the sky anew,
    Flying east through the timelessness of night.
    Light grows ahead, a new day being born;
    With the sun we rise to heaven this morn.
    
    Continue to The Cul De Sac of Growth
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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.

    A Dream

    I am with Child
    I sense its presence
    I feel its movement
    I know its thoughts
    
    Finally I understand
    The Cosmic Child is within me
    Restlessly waiting to be Birthed
    Into the Light of a New Day
    
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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, vi

    In contact with the Holy Choir
       Our Spirit’s intense fire rages
       To help ward off the earthly thoughts
       That have swallowed Man for ages
    In the quicksands of mortal mire.
      When locked in Higher Truth’s domain
          We precipitate our soul’s reunion
          With our Spirit, and can pilot
          This newfound self’s total union.
       Becoming a link in His chain
    Helps fulfill the Divine Desire
       For Humanity to regain
       The lost oneness of Eden’s reign.
    
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