Sunrise Tortoise - Poetry of Lawrence E. Keith

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 II, v
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Hateful utterances
Express our bigotry;
As caught in the whirlwind
Thoughts of mass minds decay
We lose the direction
Of formerly trod ways.

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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.
“Tomorrow – a new day”
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Tomorrow—a new day
To be dealt with as we will.

A new life’s door is before us,
Yet we open yesterdoor
Without thought
In the habit of our ways.
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FIVE - New, First Edition NOW Available
Collected - New, a collection of all of the poems in one book - Available January 2013.

Hippo Rock

Another wave washes 
The Hippo clean
Of perching shore birds

Overhead the seasonal wave
Of migrating ducks and geese
Struggle to reorganize
Their disintegrating formations
In the erratic April breezes
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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.
To John Keats
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Creative thought—
That which is progress
Is found in the form of escape, or
Whether it be daydreams or
Balancing on the fence
Between sleep and wake; for it is
Sleep and Poetry.
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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
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
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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.
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FIVE - New, First Edition NOW Available
“Clear Easter morning”
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Clear Easter morning
Fresh snow on the mountaintop
Difficult ascent
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METAMORPHOSIS, 1989 - Second Edition NOW Available.
Collected - New, a collection of all of the poems in one book - Available January 2013.

Innocence Revisited

The crumbling of our protective walls
Leaves us standing innocently naked,
Opened to Love, vulnerable,
And immersed solely in the moment;
No yesterdays and no tomorrows,
Only the Indefinable, Eternal Now.

Feeling the flower grow,
We suddenly approach God,
Becoming One.

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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.
Truth
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Look in the mirror
It will not lie.
Answer the question—
Look yourself
Square in the eye.

Look again,
What do you see?
Just a façade—
Not your identity.
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