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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

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

    The Rebirth of Time

    Time dissolves
    When Knowing
    PresentFuturePast
    And Breathing
    Inside the moment
    
    Now	 Becoming
    Here     There
    Simultaneously
    Everywhere
    
    (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.

    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
    
    Continue to "Dream Fragment 33" (more…)

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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.

    The Thread of Life

    Tumbling into the previously impenetrable past,
    We grope for the tables and chairs and faces
    That for years have cluttered our darkened stage.
    The continuous repeating of remembered lines
    Finally begins to clear the distorting haze,
    And with the glaring footlights rise
    All remaining shadows quickly dissolve
    Into the emerging childhood scenes.
     (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.

    For Brenda

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

    Foresight

    Your dreams
    Will come true
    When you—
    Dream them.
    
    (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.

    Well Traveled Road

    You tell me
    That by walking the same road,
    You see more each time.
    Possibly. . .
    Minute details appear
    That your mind was unable
    To comprehend the first,
    Second or third time.
    But does that logically erase
    The possibility of another route?
    I wonder what an alternate path
    Has to offer?
    
    (more…)

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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 Ocean

    The dead carcass that recently washed ashore
    Has been curiously gawked at from afar,
    Repulsively hovered over and stick-poked
    By clutching lovers and beachcombers alike.
    Each successive high tide pushes it further,
    To ultimately rest in odoriferous decay
    On river washed and surf polished stones
    For the seagulls, crows and various insects
    To greedily pick at in ceremonial feast.
     (more…)

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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.

    Prayer for the Living

    Rushing, pushing and striving to obtain
    Enlightenment and riches in an hour or a day,
    Leaves us no time whatsoever to wait
    For this Tree to grow tall and oak straight.
    
    Our newly felled sapling becomes
    Another very poor excuse
    For some building material
    Or long dead martyr’s sacred post.
     (more…)

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